• What trick does Huck play on Jim? Why is he tricking him now when he didn’t want to before?

Huck and Tom were in Miss Watson’s garden when Jim her slave hears them from inside. Jim attempts to stay awake and listen and find where the sound is coming from. He then falls asleep and Huck decides to play a trick on him because he is superstitious. Tom puts his hat on the tree branch over him and surrounds him with candles he found from the kitchen. When Jim awakes he tells people that witches visited him during the night and put the hat on the branch over his head. Jim becomes the town celebrity within the slaves because they enjoy witch stories. Huck is tricking him now because he didn’t want to be alone, and wanted a partner. He tricks him later on because society saw black people as stupid.