Huck Discussion Questions: 26/31

1.     In chapter 26 Huck steal money to give them to three poor girls, while in chapter 31 he helps Jim to escape from the plantation he ware sold. In both situation Huck goes against the law, in the first because he steals, in the second because letting a slave to escape is one of the worst crime you can commit. But Huck is good boy and when he can help, always do it. The opposite forces fighting inside Huck are the doing correctly against doing well. If Huck would have acted correctly he would have respected the law, and he didn’t do what he did but Huck follows his heart. The declaration is ironic because Huck is really convinced he’ll go to the hell but actually he acted well, he helped people, so he shouldn’t worry much.

2.     Huck couldn’t pray a lie because God always knows the truth so it wouldn’t have no sense. He writes the letter because if Jim has to be a slave, at least he wants Ms. Widow, his owner, to have it. However by writing Huck can organized his ideas, and knowing after all what is right to do: free Jim.

3.     He realized that this was the right thing to do. Jim for Huck isn’t more an object, he is becoming a sort of friend, or however a normal person with feelings and dreams, and he is ready to make him free.