Janie returning home

In the opening chapter when Janie came home from her journey the town people didn’t treat her very nicely because of the way she looked.  She was wearing overalls and they thought she looked goofy.  There was one person who stood up for her though and she told Janie that she was beautiful and to not listen to them.  Janie had grown up with her grandmother and played with white children.  She had never known the difference from her and the white kids until someone showed her a photograph of her.  She then realized that she was different from the little children and that is when they started treating her poorly.  Both of these show a time where Janie was treated poorly because of the color of her skin.  She was judged because of it and when she was a child she had no idea why really but in the town she knew more as to why it was happening.  

Huck Finn Ending

In the last chapter we find out that Tom’s bullet wound is healed and his leg is back to normal.  Huck is able to get away from Miss Watson and Jim is a freed man.  This is everything that they wanted.  The ways that they got to it though probably weren’t the best and not the easiest but they got to where they wanted to be.  This makes for a good ending of the book because Jim is finally freed after everything they had done and Huck was able to go on about his life.  The might have been too risky about how they go things done and did things over the top but they did get to where they wanted.  

Huck's Letter

Huck was going to write a letter to Miss Watson about Jim and how he was a runaway slave.  He was basically going to be turning Jim in and get him caught.  Huck wanted to write her about how Jim was on the loose.  He decided not to though because then people would know Huck had been helping Jim, a runaway slave.  He also felt guilty to turn Jim in because they had become very close.  Huck felt like they had become friends and he didn’t feel that he could betray Jim like that.  This showed that Huck was a good person and he didn’t think just about himself.  He cared for someone else and decided to keep Jim safe.  This showed that Huck had good character.  

Duke and Kings Plan

The Duke and King planned to steal six thousand dollars from this family.  They plan to run off with all the families’ fortune and skip town.  Huck discovers that they are planning to do this and he wants to stop them from doing it.  Huck takes the money and places it in the coffin to be buried.  He decides to tell the family about what he had done so they would know where the money is and that the Duke and King are frauds.  Huck does this because he is a good person and wants to do the right thing.  He hates that the Duke and King are doing this to the family.  It shows that he is a good person and wants to do the right thing.  

Jim's Daughter

Jim talks to Huck about how he was homesick and missing his family.  He then goes on to tell a story about how one time he had asked his daughter to do something and she just stood there.  He had hit her and left then came back and felt terrible about what he had down.  This story tells us about how Jim was feeling really homesick and this was the first time we had heard of his family and seen this side of him.  We also see this side of him where he can have a temper because he had hit his daughter a few times when she didn’t behave.  

Duke and king

The Duke and King were two men that Huck ran into. The two men were running away from people chasing after them. Huck told them that they could go with him. The Duke and King were two men who weren’t actually a duke and king. The man who claimed to be duke had told his story first and then the other man decided to make up that he was king because the Duke was getting special privileges. I don’t think it was a good idea for Huck and Jim to go along with them because they weren’t trustworthy people. Huck and Jim didn’t know who they really were.

Huck and Buck

Buck is the little boy who lived with the family that Huck found when he was washed up to shore. Buck is about the same age as Huck and the same size too. They both are boys who like to go on adventures. They like the idea of the thrill of the adventure and want to capture someone. They are also similar in the way that neither like to get dressed up. Buck talks about at the beginning that he doesn’t like to wear those nice pants and hates Sundays because he has to be proper and fancy. Huck is the same way because for a while he hated the fact that the lady he lived with made him dress up and have proper manners.