I was pretty excited for Huck when he got away from the Duke and the King when they stopped at a different town to set up a new scam. For sure i thought Huck and Jim were going to be rid of the two losers, but of course nothing in this book goes as smoothly as anyone plans, and i was heart broken when Jim wasn't at the raft. At first i Thought that Jim had tried to go up to the town to see if Huck was okay, but that didn't sound like something Jim would do. However, I was not surprise when the Duke told Huck that the King had sold Jim for "40 dirty dollars". What them think that they could sell Huck's slave, of course the whole idea of slavery is silly, but still they didn't even ask Huck or give him some of the money they made from Jim.
Huck thought about how he was going to fix the problem that he was in like always by trying to do the right thing the wrong way. At first he felt bad because Jim was going to have to be a slave away from his own family and if he took him back to Miss. Watson then Jim would be punished for being an "ungrateful nigger" and he would be known for trying to help a nigger gain his freedom. There was a lot of thought Huck put into trying to turn the situation around so that he didn't hurt the people he cared about, including Jim. He first was going to write a letter to Miss. Watson telling her where Jim was at, which made him feel better about his actions. However, he got to thinking about all the time spent with Jim on the river, this is where Huck's thinking does a 180. Huck was stuck between two choice, save himself from being know as someone who helped a "nigger" get his freedom, or get Jim back and be the true friend that Jim thought he was and go to hell for it. That's just what Huck did, he would have rather gone to hell to steal Jim back, which was actually the right thing to do and personally I do not think he'll be going to hell for it. After Huck makes up his mind he makes a comment about how he was going to take up wickedness, which was in his line being how he was brought up and the other choice (telling Miss. Watson where her slave was) wasn't like him. I agree with Huck on this comment for the most part, other then he doesn't give himself any credit for doing the right thing.
One thing that I really noticed was how Huck started to change his thoughts on Toms thinking. When they were planning to seal Jim Tom wanted to do everything the hardest way possible while huck just wanted to get Jim out fast and didn't care how they did it. I was kind of proud for Huck when he told Tom what he thought about his plan. Tom wanted his plans to be right down to the details of the books he read and Huck thought it was kind of dumb but came to an agreement with Tom to just "put in" they did all the stuff Tom wanted to do. It's not like Huck to go against what Tom said, so i thought this showed how Huck had changed over the course of the book.
Huck thought about how he was going to fix the problem that he was in like always by trying to do the right thing the wrong way. At first he felt bad because Jim was going to have to be a slave away from his own family and if he took him back to Miss. Watson then Jim would be punished for being an "ungrateful nigger" and he would be known for trying to help a nigger gain his freedom. There was a lot of thought Huck put into trying to turn the situation around so that he didn't hurt the people he cared about, including Jim. He first was going to write a letter to Miss. Watson telling her where Jim was at, which made him feel better about his actions. However, he got to thinking about all the time spent with Jim on the river, this is where Huck's thinking does a 180. Huck was stuck between two choice, save himself from being know as someone who helped a "nigger" get his freedom, or get Jim back and be the true friend that Jim thought he was and go to hell for it. That's just what Huck did, he would have rather gone to hell to steal Jim back, which was actually the right thing to do and personally I do not think he'll be going to hell for it. After Huck makes up his mind he makes a comment about how he was going to take up wickedness, which was in his line being how he was brought up and the other choice (telling Miss. Watson where her slave was) wasn't like him. I agree with Huck on this comment for the most part, other then he doesn't give himself any credit for doing the right thing.
One thing that I really noticed was how Huck started to change his thoughts on Toms thinking. When they were planning to seal Jim Tom wanted to do everything the hardest way possible while huck just wanted to get Jim out fast and didn't care how they did it. I was kind of proud for Huck when he told Tom what he thought about his plan. Tom wanted his plans to be right down to the details of the books he read and Huck thought it was kind of dumb but came to an agreement with Tom to just "put in" they did all the stuff Tom wanted to do. It's not like Huck to go against what Tom said, so i thought this showed how Huck had changed over the course of the book.