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.

Two Escapes

Huck had a more ingenious plan than Jim’s. Both Huck and Jim escaped at evening. Both escaped on the same night. Both escaped when the adult or owner was gone. Huck escaped by canoe, Jim escaped by foot. Huck brought food but Jim couldn’t. Huck was looked for more than the Jim was because people were more worried about Huck than Jim.

Huck escaped from imprisonment while Jim escaped from slavery. Huck ran away to be free from is drunken father but Jim ran away in fear of being sold.

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.