In Chapter 13, Huck and Jim were trying to escape the wrecked ship and get away from there until they realized that their raft was gone. They started to panic but then Huck decided that he was going to steal the gang’s raft and take off. After they had gotten the gang’s raft and started off, Huck’s conscious started to get to him and he felt bad for stranding them on the boat. So once they found their raft down the river, Huck and Jim separated and Huck went to find the watchman to seek help. Once he found the watchman, Huck made up a completely different story from what the situation really was, so that the gang could be rescued. After the watchman agreed to help him, he went back to the wreck and waited for the watchman to get there. When he saw that he was there, Huck left immediately and got back with Jim and they floated back down the river.
In Chapter 14, Huck and Jim have an argument over the kings, especially Solomon. I had a hard time understanding what they were talking about because Jim has such a southern accent. I got the fact the he didn’t like Solomon and he didn’t really agree with his opinions. To me this chapter was really confusing because of the way Jim talked. Can someone help me out with this chapter?
In Chapter 15, Huck’s raft drifts off into the river and he has to take the canoe to go get it. He has a lot of things he has to face to get through to get the raft back because the tide in the river kept changing its flow and it was hard to get a hold of the raft. In the process of trying to get it back he gets away from Jim and can’t figure out where Jim went. They “whoop” to try to find each other down the river and once Huck gets reunited with Jim he decides to play a trick on him. When Huck gets back to Jim, Jim is gracious to his presence because he thought he lost Huck and that Huck could have drowned or died. Jim goes on to tell Huck the story of how everything happened in the exact order at which it did, but Huck tells Jim that he dreamed it all and none of that stuff never happened. Finally, Jim figures out Huck’s lie and gets really upset with him because it hurt his feelings. Huck felt terrible about what happened so he apologized to Jim.
In Chapter 16, Huck talks about their journey to a town called Cairo. Jim was more than excited to get to this town because one he reached it, he would be a free man. He kept talking about all his future plans like buying his wife and then they were going to buy two children. But the whole time he went on and on about being a free man, Huck had in the back of his mind that he was doing wrong by not turning Jim in. He was feeling really guilty about the whole situation but when they reached an area with lights, Huck agreed to go ashore and ask how far they were away from Cairo. Huck hadn’t gotten very far from the canoe when two men approached him and asked what he was up to. He lied to them and told them that he was looking for someone to help him pull up his family because they were all sick. The men agreed to help but Huck was very nervous about the situation because if they found out that he was travelling with a black man he could get in a lot of trouble. Huck finally came up with the lie that his family had small pox, which scared the men away and saved him from getting him and Jim into trouble. Once Huck returned back to Jim, Jim was mighty thankful of what Huck did for him and that’s when Huck figured out that he couldn’t turn Jim in. They stayed on land that night but when they awoke the next morning, their canoe was gone. So they started back on their journey to Cairo and they were approached with a boat that wasn’t steering away from their raft. The boat completely destroyed the raft and Huck and Jim had to swim ashore to save themselves. When Huck reached the shore, Jim was nowhere to be found. But Huck stumbles upon a big log house.
In Chapter 17, Huck finally makes his way up to the house and rambles around it until he is seen. The family is a little curious at first but then figures out that Huck is a safe guy. They are a very welcoming family and invite Huck in and let him stay as long as he wishes. Huck describes the house all throughout chapter seventeen and tells of all of its beauty and how amazing it was. Huck tells the family how he “fell off the steamboat” and had to swim ashore to the bank. The family is very giving and lets him wear some dry clothes since he was soaking wet from being the river. The next morning Huck goes on a little adventure around the big house and discovers paintings and poems written by the family’s dead daughter, Emmeline. The girl created some really sad pictures because every time Huck described one of them, it always had something to do with someone crying or being sad. Emmeline also wrote good poetry and Huck said with her only being fourteen when she died, it would be amazing to know how good she could have been when she had gotten older.
In Chapter 18, Huck goes onto describe a man by the name of Col. Grangerford. This man apparently was one of the nicest men in the town. He talked about Col. Grangerford’s appearance and how skinny he was. I didn’t really make the connection with where Col. Grangerford fit into this chapter. Huck then began to go on and tell us descriptions of each person in the family. He said that everyone in the family had their own slave and how he had one too. That day Huck and Buck went messing around the land and hid behind a bush, when all of a sudden Buck shot at a gentleman that rode by on a horse. Huck was really confused at why he shot at him, but Buck informed him that the gentleman that rode by was a Shepherdson and how the Shepherdson’s family was at a feud with his family. Buck couldn’t remember why they were in a feud but he knew that it had been going on for about thirty years. He told Huck that people had been killed this year in both families and that they were still at war with them. That Sunday, they all went to church together and had a good sermon. That afternoon everyone took naps and so Huck figured he would too. When he went upstairs Miss Sophia asked would he go to the church and get her testament for her. He was suspicious of why he was going but went anyway and when he got it, he saw a note in it that said ”half-past two.” He brought it back to her and she was smiling from ear to ear. Huck decided not to take a nap and he went a walking around the land and discovered that Jim was hiding in the woods on the land he had been living on. Jim went on to tell him that the slaves that worked on the farm were looking after Huck for him and giving him updates on how Huck was doing. They brought Jim food and he paid them for it as well and Jim also fixed their raft. Huck was so excited to see Jim and told Jim not to leave. When Huck returned to the house he was astonished to see that no one was home. He asked his slave, Jack where everyone was and Jack told him that Miss Sophia had run off that night and met up with a Shepherdson and the families was at war with each other a few miles down the road. Huck took off and went a looking for them and he found them but was scared to death so he hid up in a tree. This part of the story was very sad because Buck found Huck in the tree and told him that his father and his cousins had been shot and a little while later Huck watched Buck get shot as well. Huck was very saddened by this because he had become good friends with him. He wanted to get out of there as soon as possible because he couldn’t go back to the house knowing that he might could have prevented this situation by telling the father about the note. Huck found Jim down by the river and they got away from that area and went on their way.
In Chapter 19, Huck starts of by telling us about the greatness of living on a raft. He thinks that life on a raft is so peaceful and it’s the best way to be. After they had got down the river a good ways, they hear all kinds of fuss coming from men talking about dogs and horses coming. They ask Huck can they join them on the raft, but Huck tells them that they need to run a little bit further down the bank and then get in the raft with them so they would be sure that they were away from the dogs. After they had all been on the raft a while they all discover that none of them knew each other. So they go on to tell about how they met up and why they were together. One of them confesses that he’s a Duke and requires them to care to his every need. After a while one of the other men get tired of listening to him go on about his sad life and he confesses that he is a Lord. Then they all tend to his needs and the Duke begins to feel sour towards the Lord. After a while Huck figures our that all of them are lying but, he goes along with it because there was no point in creating a fuss about it when he could just satisfy them and everyone would get along.
In Chapter 20, the three men ask Huck why they have to travel only at night. So Huck has to come up with an excuse for this and he told them that Jim belonged to their family and he was just traveling with them. That night a really bad storm came up and the Duke and the King slept inside the wigwam while Huck and Jim kept watch of the storm. The next morning the Duke and the Lord tried to put together a play with themselves of Romeo and Juliet. The Duke and the Lord then decided that they were going to go into town to do some things and Huck went with them to get some coffee since they were out. When they got into town they noticed that everyone was gone but then discovered that everyone was at the camp meeting. Huck and the King went to the camp meeting and the Duke went to the nearest print shop in town. At the camp meeting, the people of the town were hollering and crying and kept saying “Amen” and “Praise the Lord.” After a while the Lord got involved and told the preacher that he was a pirate trying to convert all his fellow pirates to follow the right path, and before long people were giving him money. After they left the camp meeting they met up with the Duke who had made flyers and found a two hundred dollar reward for someone described exactly like Jim. Now the two men had come up with a way to travel with Jim during the day and if anyone stopped them on their journey, they could say that they found Jim and was taking him in for the reward.
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