Tom and Plans

So Huck and Tom know where Jim is but what complicates things is that Tom isn't fine with breaking Jim out the easy way. Tom comes up with these crazy ideas about having Jim dig his way to China or make a moat around his cabin or have him tame a rattlesnake but it never ocurs to Tom that doing things the easy way makes things a whole lot easier. What would seem easy to me is to finish digging the hole they were digging and  get Jim out, take the raft and head down river. It's either I missed something or they don't do the plain and simple.

What is Boy Scouts all about?

I was reading Eli's post about Huck and Boy Scouts and I agree with him that Huck would have to work on the scout law. I would like to go further with this thought.
 I have come to learn from my Scout Master, Mr. Mason, that boy scouts is not only to learn about the law, oath, and how to survive, but to learn to become Godly men and leaders.
How does the scout law and oath help us to be godly men? The scout law asks us to be reverent both in our own faith and to be respectful of others' faith. In the oath it says to do my duty to God which is to obey him in everything.
How does scouting help us to be leaders? The scout law says a scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, and brave. You couldn't be a leader without being these things. The oath says to do my duty to country, to help other people at all times, and to keep yourself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. If you don't do these things nobody's going to follow you.

Huck and Dress Up

I think it was a good idea for Huck to dress up like a girl and try to find out what was going on in town. I also thought it was interesting that Mrs. Judith Loftus figured out he was a boy by watching him sew, shoot the gun, and constantly change his name. What really made me interested was that same night Mrs. Judith's husband and another man went to go look for Jim.

Jim and Superstition

Jim is a superstious guy. When Jim saw a bird act a certain way he knew it was going to rain. So instead of telling Huck the bird's say it's going to rain by the way it's acting he says a bird told him it was going to rain. When Huck picked up a snake skin Jim said it was bad to do it. A couple nights later as Huck was going to bed he saw a rattlesnake and killed it and left it by Jim's bed. Later that night Jim got bit by the dead snake's mate. Jim said he got bit because of Huck holding the snake skin, but Huck knew that when you kill a snake in mating season it's mate comes and curls up next to it's dead mate.

Things That Intriqued Me in Chapters 7 and 8

I was disappointed that Huck fell asleep when he was about to shoot Pap and instead of shooting him he woke up when Pap was saying "Git up!" Whacha doing with the gun?"


I thought he should have shot him because Pap was a druken, mean person who beat his son Huck nearly every night.

I thought it was interesting that Huck made it look like he had actually been killed by robbers to escape Pap, but I'm also interested in how he could have hunted the boar and chopped the door down and got the canoe out and the supplies needed for the journey and in about four and a half hours. I found that intriguing that he could manage all that in so little time.