quotes 2

"I wish you would, because it's pap that's there, and maybe you'd help me tow the raft ashore where the light is. He's sick - and so is mam and Mary Anne"

p. 81 - huck makes up that everyone on the raft is sick because he doesn't want the men to go on there and find jim and take him away (friendship)

"But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before"

p.263 - at the end of the book, huck doesn't want to be influenced by anyone (especially Tom) (individual vs society, more maturity)

"It's a dead man. Yes, indeedy: naked too. He's ben shot in de back. I reck'n he's ben dead two er three days. Come in Huck, but doan' look at his face - it's too gashly"

p.45 - jim sees huck's dad floating by in the river, but keeps huck from seeing (father-son relationship)

The Adventures of Huck Finn

Mark Twain

The Birthmark

Nathaniel Hawthorne