Thursday, December 4, 2008
What do you make of the last chapter? Is this a happy ending for Huck and Jim?
I thought the last chapter was somewhat a happy ending for Huck and Jim. Tom lives through his gun wound, and tells Jim the news about Miss Watson passing away and him being free now. Jim became free from his father because he found out that he died in the beginning of their adventure. Toms adventure was unnecessary because he wanted to follow the books so he could have a fun adventure to save Jim, even though he already knew that he was free. Because of Tom they end up getting caught and have to reveal their story. If Tom wouldn’t of followed the books the boys would have been able to get away and continue with their adventure down the river. Now Huck has to live with Aunt Sally because she adopts him, meaning he is going back to a sivilized life.
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In some ways they do have a happy ending, but in other respects the book ended extremely poorly, in my opinion. The fact that Huck may have to go back to a sivilized life, and the whole story could have gone on if Tom had just revealed the information about Jim earlier on, annoy me.
This is a very synoptical blog but good in that sense. I think however, that it is of more importance to understand the meaning of why Huck and the other characters acted in the way that they did. In this last chapter we are able to see that it was the fault of society that the ending was as it was.
good blog ba2
I agree with what you said about Tom not reviling the information about Jim begin free early on. If was sort of stupid to have to free Jim by going by the books if he knew he could just go to Huck and Jim and tell them the truth about Miss Watson.
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