The facts of how black people were treated in this period give Huck and Jim their license for life on the run. and of course, putting him into others!Much has been written about the statement Twain is making about slavery in this book, but it's really secondary to the story. At each stop, Huck engages his talent for mixing fact with bald-faced lies to endlessly get himself out of situations. Huck escapes his civilized life when he arranges his own "murder" and turns back into the backwoods, downriver yokel he started as, and in the process springing a slave, Jim, from bondage.Huck and Jim experience life as a series of tableaux as the river sweeps them through small towns on their way South. Jim got down on his knees, and put his ear against it and listened.In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's - afloat on a raft on the Mississippi River. Jim tried it again, and then another time, and it acted just the same. It fell pretty solid, and only rolled about an inch. What I wanted to know was, what he was going to do, and was he going to stay? Jim got out his hair-ball and said something over it, and then he held it up and dropped it on the floor. So I went to him that night and told him pap was here again, for I found his tracks in the snow. He said there was a spirit inside of it, and it knowed everything. Miss Watson’s nigger, Jim, had a hair-ball as big as your fist, which had been took out of the fourth stomach of an ox, and he used to do magic with it. ‘There you see it says ‘for a consideration.’ That means I have bought it of you and paid you for it. Then he wrote something on a paper and read it over, and says: You want to SELL all your property to me - not give it. ‘Please take it,’ says I, ‘and don’t ask me noth-ing - then I won’t have to tell no lies.’
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