Monday, March 17, 2008

Huckleberry Finn Update

A lot has happened in the book Huckleberry Finn since the last post about it. Huck dressed up like a girl and went ashore to see what was happening in his town. The woman found out he wasn't a girl but he made up a story in which he ran away from his farm because he'd been treated poorly and she believed it and promised not to turn him in. He also found out that her husband had seen smoke on the island they'd been staying on so he was going to go there that night and look for Jim. Right when they were done talking and Huck was out of the house, he went and told Jim and they got in their canoe and left the island. They made a wigwam in the middle of it to sleep in and to protect them from the rain. Eventually they came upon a ship that was about to sink and decided to go aboard because there was sure to be many treasures in the captain's courters such as cigars and lots of money. When they got on the ship they found a group of robbers that were pointing a gun at a man that was begging for mercy and they prayed not to be seen because then they would surely kill them. When they went back to the place where the canoe had been tied up, it was gone! They searched all over the sides of the ship looking for it and eventually found it. They didn't get any of the treasures because of the struggle to get off the ship. Since Huck felt bad for the men stuck on the ship, he told a fairy pilot that his family was stuck on the ship and needed saved so the fairy would hopefully pick them up. Later they found another boat with nobody on it and went aboard and found lots of cigars and other treasures. They also got some books which Huck read all about kings and told Jim about them. They were looking for a town called Crete which led to a fork that led up the Ohio River but they feared that the next fork would just be another island and they would find themselves on the same river. Not far behind them there was a huge boat that could carry more than 30 people and Huck and Jim agreed that they would be talking all about Crete so they decided that Huck would sneek onto the ship at night and find out all he could about where they were and where Crete was. On the ship, so far what I've read is that they haven't talked about Crete yet but I'm still at the part where he's on the ship. The story of Huckleberry Finn is really good and I would definately recommend it so far but the only negative part of it is that sometimes you can't understand what they're saying because it's written in a southern context that was used way back during slavery. I think the people on the big ship Huck's on are going to find out he's on the ship and there will be yet another adventure.

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