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Sunday, April 14, 2013
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 )
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Hey Regina! I also saw that the Duke and King were enslaving Huck and Jim. At first I didn't think about Jim and only thought of a Huck but as you pointed out, Jim is also enslaved. Your analogy, "fly trapped in honey" was also really funny. I thought it was smart and witty xD I was also wondering if the harelip was enslaving Huck's conscious because she kept forcing him to lie. So I thought it could affect Huck since he's a teenager and lying hurts. I also began to wonder if she and Mary Jane could be part of the reason why Huck wanted freedom. I think they delivers the final blow which woke up Huck and made him realize that he's doing bad things.
It was really odd to not have Jim present in so many chapters and to have, as you said, “the obvious view of enslavement” given predominately to Huck. Your statement about Huck being “stuck there like a fly trapped in honey” is completely true (and funny). Huck had no way of getting out of the situation he was in, that is until he manages to find an opportunity to escape later on in these chapters.
I forgot that the Duke and King introduce Huck as their servant. It's interesting (and convenient) that Huck is first introduced to the Wilks sisters through our theme of enslavement.
It's crazy how I didn't realize Jim wasn't so much in the picture through the chapters. But here we see that Huck becomes more enslaved under the duke and dauphin while Jim is the one sensing the freedom which is weird because Jim is the slave. Huck is in a sense good at lying in the beginning but you can still see his innocence because here he is letting two con men control him due to his own fear. Imprisonment of his own thoughts. But what I truly thought of reading through this was would Jim thinking of running away from where he was hiding ? But he didnt because the relationship between him and Huck is truly strong.
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