Missing Huck Quote Responses

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Pages 35-69:

1. "I was powerful lazy and comfortable- didn't want to get up and cook breakfast."

This quote kind of speaks to the fact that the hard-working Huck, who had just escaped, had a lazy side. Huck usually pushes himself in every possible way to get the job done, but this scene speaks to the fact that Huck does have a side that people can really relate to. Huck says he's feeling lazy after escaping by sawing through a roof and killing a pig, quite contradictory.

2. "Well, I b'lieve you, Huck. I-I run off.
"Jim!"

This is the first sign of Huck questioning Jim's running off, not a second after he found out. If Huck were supportive or just didn't care he might not have reacted as such. Huck continues to struggle with the morality of not turning in Jim, at that time considered the right thing to do. Huck seems to know that if he doesn't tell, he's an accomplice, so he eventually accepts this and accompanies him, still questioning right and wrong along the way.


Pages 71-91
1. "Watchman your grandmother!"

This comes outright and says that Huck knows how to diss someone. This seems to be related to the modern phrase of "your mom," considering he is actually using a female member of a family to ridicule a statement made by someone else. This truly displays Huck's inner rebellious teen, and this comment surely shows his angst.

2. "Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it."

Huck battles here with the opinions of his abusive father and his adoptive widow. Somehow he continues to choose his father's opinions over what seems right, "borrowing" goods withot giving back anything, much less with permission. Huck takes chickens, watermelons, corn, and all kinds of things. However, there is a reason to this, and it is because this food is necessary to keep him and Jim alive, therefore it is wrong in less aspects.


Pages 109-134

1. "He didn't ever have to tell anybody to mind their manners- everybody was good-mannered where he went."

Huck shows respect for high authority figures here, this particular example being Colonel Grangerford. Huck is usually rebellious when it comes to authority figures, but when he meets one that is so high up in the ranks he simply feels inclined to respect him, and it shows in Huck's description of him. Unlike many other people, Huck turns his somewhat bad qualities, like the undeniable anger that he often shows, into good ones.

2. "Well," says he, "dat's all right, den. I doan mine one er two kings, but dat's enough."

I found this Jim quote quite funny, as he says that he doesn't want to meet any more kings because of the already had such an odd experience with them. I'm sure I might react the same way, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't find it funny. Jim seems to have a sense of humor that even he doesn't seem to know of.