Using a
raft to move their supplies, Huck and Jim travel the River and enjoy their
liberties contentedly. Huck says, “Take
it all around, we lived pretty high.”
Once they
happened upon a wrecked steamboat and went aboard to search for goods, only to
learn it was in the process of being robbed.
Since their raft inadvertently floated away, Huck and Jim take the
robber’s skiff, which was loaded with goods already, and get away down stream
unseen.
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Huck enjoys
his adventures, and wishes Tom Sawyer could be there to see him; but Jim thinks
adventures are risky, especially since he gambles being caught as a runaway
slave. They are searching for Cairo,
near the Ohio River, which will take Jim to freedom, but they are not sure of
their whereabouts.
At one
point, Huck is confused about what his moral obligations are to society: should
he turn Jim in for leaving Miss Watson, which is like keeping stolen
property? But Jim is very loyal to Huck,
and Huck’s conscience is guilty about doing what society dictates is right. So he leaves well enough alone.
After
another strange adventure on shore, which involves Huck living with a
well-to-do family for some time, Huck reunites with Jim; they continue on until
they regretfully take up two men fleeing of their lives. Now the raft becomes more like a prison while
Huck and Jim are taken advantage of by these two con artists who claim to be a
duke and a dauphin; though Huck knows it is a lie, what can they do when the
duke and dauphin can easily turn in Huck and Jim at any time? Now Huck and Jim must go along for the ride.
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