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After scanning the book after the second time, I found a passage that I feel would be most important in the development of character relationships. After Jim and Huckleberry Finn were separated by the fog and after Huck went along with Jim's "dream", Huck finally amounted to apologizing to Jim's outrage of his lies. I want to cite the paragraph of which I feel shows the best example of Huck's feelings. On page 81, " It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger-but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither." To me this shows how a young, white child, despite what society may say, can go down to a young, black man's level. Also, after he had accomplished it, he wasn't ashamed of what he had done.
The passage that I recently discovered that I feel is important is in chapter twelve. Huck says, "Pap always said, take a chicken when you get a chance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot..." I feel that this passage is important because after I looked back I realized throughout the novel Huck does "good deeds" that are remembered. For instance, stealing the money back from the King and the Duke to give to the Wilks sisters. Although a chicken does not compare to the amount of money that Huck took, the passage in a way, foreshadows the event with the Wilks.
I believe that a passage in chapter twelve is important in developing Huck's character. Huck says, "And when she got through they all jest laid theirselves out to make me feel at home and know I was amongst friends. I felt so ornery and low down and mean that I says to myself, my mind's made up; I'll hive that money for them or bust." This shows that Huck starts follow what he believes in. He can lie to save Jim, but the King and the Duke are doing it for their own good. He can no longer sit back and watch the King and the Duke still from innocent people. He is beginning to do what he thinks is right.
The passage that I believe is important appears in chapter twenty-two. it states "...And at last sure enough, all the circus men could do, the horse broke loose, and away he went like the very nation, round and round the ring, with that sot laying down on him and hanging to his neck, with first one leg hanging most to the ground on one side, and then t'other one on t'other side, and the people just crazy, It warn't funny to me though; I was all of a tremble to see his danger." I believe this part of the novel is important because it shows that huck is different from society. Everyone else thought it was funny that the person was falling off the horse, but Huck was scared because he thought the person was in danger, which shows how unlike society Huck is.
The passage that I looked back over and felt was important was that in chapter 13 when Huck goes to see whats on the shipwrecked steamboat. However, Huck finds robbers on the boat and when he went to leave there raft had floated away. This caused Huck and Jim to steal the robbers boat leaving them to die on the steamboat. Huck feels bad so he sends a ferry man to check on them. This was on of the first times I saw Huck show some maturity and take responsibility for his actions.
I believe an important passage of the book is chapter 16, when Huck and Jim are floating down the river, and Huck is considering turning Jim in as a runaway slave. However, Jim opens up to Huck and lets him know about how he is the first white person to ever be Jim's friends. This statement helps Huck realize that the way he was brought up may not be the fairest way to live life. It displays Huck's growth and steady movement into maturity.
When I first read Huckleberry Finn, I noticed that Huck made many vivid descriptions about the Grangerford's house and how it was decorated. After taking a second look into these passages, I discovered that these descriptions were meant to draw parallels between the family and the house. The decorations being "gaudy" and over-done were meant to show that the Grangerfords used the house as a charade for their life. This is important to the story because it shows Huck's realization of what is around him and his beginning to understand that everything is not as it seems at first.
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