As
the chapters progress, there is still a lot of talk regarding to Freedom and Enslavement.
There is talk of enslavement when they mention that, 'a government can't sell a
free nigger till he's been in the state six months.' (Twain, 29). Hucks's
father keeps ranting on about this while he is drunk, and address that he will
never vote again because a black person was allowed to. Huck also uses the
theme Freedom to go to school. He quotes, 'I didn't want to go to school much,
before. but I reckoned I'd go now to spite Pap.' (Twain, 24). Huck gains
freedom by going to school because he is tired of the way his father has been
acting towards him, plus he is always drunk. Due to this fact (and Ms. Watson
could not adopt him), he has chosen to run away to Jackson's Island to make a
life for himself. Here, he also finds out that the slave Ms. Watson was holding
(Jim) is also on the island hiding out. A women named Sarah has spoken to them
about how people are saying that Huck was killed by possibly Jim.
2 comments:
Vicky, be careful not to summarize in your blogs. I know what happened in those chapters; I am looking for thoughtful insight and analysis into your topic.
Ok thanks for letting me know, I will analysis the next one :)
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