Last Blog on Freedom and Enslavement Huck and Fin

These last few chapters had an immense amount of freedom and enslavement.  In  chapter 31 the reader can see that Huck is going through an internal emotional pain because though he is finally free from the two con men, Jim isn't.  Jim has been captured and taken back to his "roots" and is yet again denied his "freedom" which him and Huck were working so hard to gain.  We can see how he feels in the beginning of the next chapter when he realizes that he rather be dead than alone an no one to share it with (Jim).  I like how Tom and Huck reunite again for a good cause (freeing Jim).  In the later chapters while they tried to rescue Jim, I was beginning to become irritated with Tom.  I felt that he taught that the entire mission was one of his "adventures" and that Jim immediate rescue was not that important.  I was disgusted that he (Tom) even contemplated on leaving the mission of Jim's rescue to their kids.  "He said it was the best fun he ever had in his life, and the most intellectural; and said if he only could see his way to it we keep it up all the rest of our lives and leave Jim to our children to get out" (Twain 278).  To me I felt as if he was just toying around with Jim just for pleasure; and that is "sick" because you should not play with someone's  freedom just because they are a slave.  Maybe if they followed Huck, less risky plan they wouldn't have gotten into such a huge mess of figuring how to help Jim escape, which backfires when Tom gets shot, hindering Jim's escape.  Though Tom was stupid and endangered his well being, it was kind of Jim to stay back and help, this shows how humane he is (which is what society didn't think too much of at that time).  I found it kind of weird how Huck sees what Jim has done and considers him "white" on the inside, meaning good.  I found it ironic how "black on the inside" meant that you were bad.  I did not necessarily look at Huck's thinking as if it were racist, maybe "white-means pure" and "black means dark and evil" which is commonly associated in our culture now.  My heart was filled with joy when I found out that Jim was set free due to Ms. Watson's will (I love how you wait this long to tell us this Tom-this boy plays too much).  "Old Miss Watson died two months ago, and she was ashamed she ever was going to sell him down the river, and so; and she set him free in her will" (Twain 319).  It was about time that Jim was free, and I loved how the novel ended on that note, no more struggling for freedom, he was given it (though I don't like the sound of someone being granted free- it was nice in this situation).  Jim's truly get the praise that he receives in the end because I felt as if it all truly was in his characteristics.  This was what we should take from this novel, no matter who you are you race does not defy only your characteristics, and I feel that Jim portrayed this very well til the end, even in hard situations.  HOPE YA"LL ENJOYED MY LAST POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enslavement and Freedom #3 Huck Finn Chapters 23-30

 In the end of Chapter 23 I feel proud for Huck,  because I felt that he was finally learning a lesson.  He learns that that it does not matter if you are white or black, you are still capable of human emotions such as love, which  is the situation he finds Jim in (who is sobbing over his family).  Huck is starting to see that whites and blacks posses the same characteristics in this character.  In the next few chapters  there really isn't much talk of slavery and freedom until we get to Chapter 26.  This Chapter really angered me because it showed man's ugly side (being that of greed and false accusations).  The King and Duke's greed has bonded them to so much money that they can't even go off with.  To me they are "enslaved" to money and anything they do tightens that grip, making them less "free".  At first one might not think that the King and Duke are racist due to the fact that they previously helped Jim when he wanted to walk around the town freely (they dress him up in a costume so he can be comfortable instead of tied up like a slave in Chapter 24).  Fast-forward, In Chapter 26 the King and Duke feel like they need to hide "their" money someplace else before a slave finds it and "steals" some of it (like they weren't the ones stealing).  "and first you know the nigger that does up in the rooms will get an order to box these duds up and put 'em away; and do you reckon a nigger can run cross money and not borrow some of it" (Twain 204).   It was racist for them to think that a black person will be the one stealing money that didn't belong them, but in fact that is what they are doing. Their conceived judgment on black people is just wrong.  Huck who is hearing all of this probably doesn't think this way because the only two stealing con artist that have approached him so far in this novel have been the Duke and the King, who are white.
 Like I stated earlier Huck has learned that humans no matter what race you are (white or black) we are all capable of emotions.  His knowledge of this was shown again in chapter 27.  Black people have feelings too, and Huck saw the cruel act which the King and Duke did by separating a family when selling them apart.  Though Huck lies to get back at the cons artists for what they did I felt as if it was appropriate.  Though one may look at it as being a racist lie, I think that he was only thinking of the reaction of the two men, when they knew that they couldn't do anything, while helping the slaves too.  All the King and Dukes assumption in a sense happens to be "true".  It was brilliant of Huck to tell the King and Duke that he was not in their room, but that he did see a few slaves pass that way a couple of times (the slaves were sold).  By telling this fib, Huck is not only protecting himself, but the other slaves which he knows will return back but will not be harmed by the King or Duke, who will probably be long gone by then.  The way I see it, Huck is a protectorate of not only himself, but of innocent humans that society has wronged (in this case- the slaves).  "and I felt dreadful glad I'd worked it all off onto the niggers and yet hadn't done the niggers no harm by it" (Twain 212).