Chapter 10-15 The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Quotes

Nathan Tsiperfal
Period 2
January 22, 2013
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapters 10-15 Quotes Notes |“‘Git up and hump yourself, Jim! there ain’t a minute to lose. |Even though the people are only after Jim, Huck says that they |
|They’re after us.”’ (63.) |are after both of them saying “us”. The progression of Huck and |
| |Jim’s relationship shows Twain’s satirical condemnation of |
| |slavery because throughout the book while many characters are |
| |racist, Huck moves past that and becomes
very close with Jim. |
| |Their bond is there regardless of the fact that Jim is a black |
| |slave and Huck is a white 13 year old boy. |
|“Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed |Huck is having trouble with the balance of morality around him. |
|a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or |He must cope with the laws of what is approved by society as well|
|things of that kind. Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow |as the opposite, the teaching of his father. This quote shows the|
|things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the |balance of the two morals. Huck realizes that the law is not |
|widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and |always right. The open-mindedness that Huck obtains is what leads|
|no decent body would do it.
Jim said he reckoned the widow was |to Huck help Jim obtain his freedom. |
|partly right and pap was partly right; so the best way would be | |
|for us to pick out two or three things from the list and say we | |
|wouldn't borrow them any more – then he reckoned it wouldn't be | |
|no harm to borrow the others. So we talked it over all one night,| |
|drifting along down the river, trying to make up our minds | |
|whether to drop the watermelons, or the cantelopes, or the | |
|mushmelons, or what.” (65.) | |
|“Stick a candle in your pocket; I can't rest, Jim, till we give |Even though Huck and Jim are now close friends, Huck still
misses|
|her a rummaging. Do you reckon Tom Sawyer would ever go by this |his close relationship with Tom. Jim and Tom’s personalities |
|thing? Not for pie, he wouldn't. He'd call it an adventure – |contrast each other very much, and lack some qualities from each |
|that's what he'd call it; and he'd land on that wreck if it was |other. |
|his last act. And wouldn't he throw style into it? – wouldn't he | |
|spread himself, nor nothing? Why, you'd think it was Christopher | |
|C'lumbus discovering Kingdom-Come. I wish Tom Sawyer WAS here." | |
|(66.) | |
|“Jim told me to chop off the snake's head and throw it away, and |Even though Huck is skeptical, he still laughs at Jim his |
|then skin the body and roast a piece of it. I done it, and he eat|superstitions. This follows his beliefs and show how open minded |
|it and said it would help cure him. He made me take off the |he is about his views on the world. |
|rattles and tie them around his wrist, too. He said that that | |
|would help.” (53.) | |
|"No'm, I ain't hungry. I was so hungry I had to stop two miles | |
|below here at a farm; so I ain't hungry no more. It's what makes |Because Huck has a tendency to lie, he always imagines himself |
|me so late. My mother's down sick, and out of money and |being in a family. This shows Huck’s underlying thoughts, and his|
|everything, and I come to tell my uncle Abner Moore. He lives at |wish to have a family of his own. Although he never admits it, |
|the upper end of the town, she says. I hain't ever been here |the reader can conclude that it’s a pretty common desire to have.|
|before. Do you know him?” (55.) | |