THIS IS THE END...

Hi guys can you believe that we finished Huck Finn? So with in these last few chapter I noticed a big factor on enslavement. Huck was enslaved by Tom Swayer. When Huck and Tom are trying to free Jim from Uncle Silas "jail" cellar. Since Huck is the type to look for the most adventurous ways, he is not willing to agree with Tom. Since Tom is the educated one, he planes out this scheme according to the books. Huck is enslaved by Tom his "knowledge ". Especially when they are in the "cell" with Jim, Tom says Jim "needs" to write his name in the wall and a coat of arms. Tim's reasoning behind the "Needs" is because all the nobles do it in his books. This enslavement is also show through Jim! (Who would of known). It is obvious that Jim is captured and is put in to ( what I call) a jail cell. He is back to the " slave" life. I do notice that Jim is more like a prisoner than a slave. After all he is a runaway slave and was captured, and in Uncle Silas' land, he is on the lowest level of slavery.

30-35

In these set of chapters for Huckleberry Finn, Huck is still a "slave" to the duke and dauphin. Like I said in my previous post, he is a fly stuck in honey. That's still his case even when he was looking for Jim. It almost seems that the duke and dauphin have Huck under their thumb. After all from what I understood, since the duke and dauphin wants the money and seeing that Jim was a run away slave; decided that they were going to get "their" money using the re-enslaved Jim. What I mean by the re-enslaved Jim is that Jim is already a slave and the was re-slaved by the duke and dauphin. Huck being a good friend, starts to look for Jim. The duke finds Huck and sends him in the wrong direction. Although Huck knows the directions from the Duke are incorrect, the Duke following Huck is a way to show the enslavement that the Duke is giving to Huck.

Chapters 26-30

In chapters twenty six through thirty, freedom and enslavement is expressed in a way that does not involve Jim completely with in these chapters; who is the obvious view of enslavement. The Duke and the King essentially are “enslaving “Huck and Jim. They enslave them because the Duke and King need Huck and Jim to carry out their robbing schemes. There was no way that Huck could escape the two comrades. He was stuck there like a fly trapped in honey.  They end up using Huck to “help” rob the three orphan sisters who recently lost their father. The father left three thousand dollars for family members. The Duke and King impersonate the two uncles the orphans had. The Duke and King introduce themselves as Uncle Harvey and Uncle William. They introduce Huck as their servant.  Huck had to wait upon the “uncles” while the rest of the niggers waited upon the rest of the family. When dinner finished, Huck got the chance to eat in the kitchen along with the harelip. The harelip asked Huck about the difference between a nigger and an English servant. Huck doesn’t portray a major difference to the reader, instead he gives the impression to the harelip. Huck tells her that niggers are actually treated better than servants. In reality the only difference was the name and the fact that Fourth of July is not celebrated in England. On the other hand Jim is sensed in these chapters as free. The Duke, King and Huck left him in hiding. If Jim and Huck weren’t good friends, them Jim could have left and escaped the Duke and King. He would have no worries.( except the runaway slave part )

Freedom vs Enslavement

With in the first twenty chapters, freedom and enslavement are expressed in many different ways. In the first chapter the Widow Douglas attempts to transform Huckleberry in to a civilized fellow. In Huck's point of view, this is enslavement. He grew up with the habits of being "free" in  he woods.Free for Huck is running around with out worrying about getting dirty and the ability to have a smoke when ever he wants to. Of course Huck's view of freedom differs from the town. For the rest of the town, freedom is a well educated person. Such as the foil we see in chapter two with Tom Sawyer. Tom is a well mannered young boy and he would be considered free due to the fact that education is a big factor between freedom and enslavement. When it comes to the view of the slaves, freedom simply means the ability to live their own lives working for money and with out a "master" to obey. In chapters seven and eight, the domestic slave for the Widow Douglas, Jim escapes the same night the "body" of Huck was "found". For Jim floating on the raft down the Mississippi river is considered freedom. When Jim found Huck, both are considered free in their views. Huck is free because he has "escaped" from the Widow Douglas (with the help of pap); therefore he does not have to worry about sneaking a smoke . Huck doesn't have to worry about his cloths either. If he gets them dirty while he his out. Huck also escapes from pap.Huck saws his way out of the cabin so he can become free.

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Hi Ms. Watkins :)