Howling Adventures Amongst Royal Frauds
After all the confusion was settled at Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas’ farm, Tom, and Jim and I decided to go down the river to the Indian Territory and go for howling adventures amongst the Injuns.
So we fixed up a raft and said good-bye.
A week later Tom and I ran out of money so we couldn’t buy matches or cornmeal or any of that kinder stuff.
So the next town we stopped at (by the name of Hicksville), the rain was pouring down so hard and the wind was a’ howling and whooping and the thunder made you jump right out of yur’ pants, we tied up the raft and found a good dry place to put Jim and keep ‘m hid (right under the dock where the platform reaches the land).
Tom and I started to walk up towards the town and he told me about this book he read. It was about two boys who ran out of money whilst traveling down a river so they decide to sell rocks to people telling them that they’re magic.
I got the feeling that Tom was trying to come up with ideas to make some money. So I says “Why don’t we jest steal some money?”
And for the first time Tom agreed with me. So we stole some money from a blind man and ran as fast as we possibly could to the dock. Then we almost forgot Jim so Tom ran up to the end of the dock; went under it and told Jim it was all right to come out; we headed down the river, again.
As we got further and further down the river, we realized we were in the Indian Territory. We tied up the raft on a tree that had falled down across the river. We set up a lean-to and cut some firewood, and put it in a dry place to keep it from the rain.
After we set up camp, Tom and I took our rifles and decided to go hunting.
We caught ourselves a rabbit and figer’d we best get back to camp before it got too late.
When we got back to camp the lean-to was destroyed and Jim was gone.
Well, it started to rain again and it was getting darker by the second.
Tom looked over at me and said, “Injuns!”
“I don’t know.” says I. “Do you have a plan, Tom?”
“A plan for what?
The most noteworthy scene is the description of the Trail of Tears itself by exposing the deplorable conditions during the trail and in the remand prisons. During the fall and winter of 1838 and 1839, the Cherokee made their trip for over six months on the 800 miles trail through the Georgia countryside to Oklahoma Indian Territory (Burgan 4). While a few traveled by boats, many of the Cherokees travelled on land. The scene where the sick and the elderly succumbed to the journey and the struggles of women carrying their babies is touching. The Cherokee march through difficult weather conditions across the snowy trails during winter. Many of them died while others, who survived the journey, lived to tell about nu na hi du na tlo hi lu i or ‘the trail where they cried.’ Those held in the camps were among the last groups to move. They found that the trail resources had been depleted by marchers before them. Consequently, most of them succumbed to starvation and
This document contains excerpts from the Journal of Occurrences on the route of a party of Cherokee emigrants by Lieutenant Edwards Deas. Deas is the commander of the Cherokees during the first forced removal in June of 1838 (p.98-99). Deas describes the Indians being brought onto the boat and says they are “somewhat crowded” (p.101). This statement makes it sound like the Indians aren’t in too terrible of a situation. One of the main aspects that Deas mentions in his journal is about the transportation of the Cherokees down the Tennessee River (p.102). Deas lists the names given to certain large rapids down the river. The rapids in the river made this experience more dangerous (p.102). Deas focuses more on the boats and transportation of the trip, rather than the condition of the Cherokee people. He mentions the diet of the people on the trip which consisted of, “flour, corn-meal and bacon,” and he briefly discusses the health of the Cherokees (p.103). The Cherokees stayed fairly healthy throughout this trip but there were a couple sicknesses. When the group got to their destination, the Cherokees were greeted with friends and acquaintances from back home. Deas thought the Cherokees looked very happy and pleased
When American troops came to the Indian Territory, they quickly took action and started separating families. Elders and the sick were forced to move by gunpoint. The Indians had to grab what they needed and left their home within a matter of minutes, leaving behind their valuables and homeland which American thieves stole and took over their property. The journey of three groups of Indians began in the summer of 1838. The Indians traveled by railroad, boat, wagon, and foot through water and land routes.
Huck Finn learns from the actions of people around him, what kind of a person he is going to be. He is both part of the society and an outlier of society, and as such he is given the opportunity to make his own decisions about what is right and what is wrong. There are two main groups of characters that help Huck on his journey to moral maturation. The first group consists of Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, and the judge. They portray society and strict adherence to rules laid out by authority. The second group consists of Pap, the King, and the Duke. They represent outliers of society who have chosen to alienate themselves from civilized life and follow no rules. While these characters all extremely important in Huck’s moral development, perhaps the most significant character is Jim, who is both a fatherly figure to Huck as well as his parallel as far as limited power and desire to escape. Even though by the end of the novel, Huck still does not want to be a part of society, he has made a many choices for himself concerning morality. Because Huck is allowed to live a civilized life with the Widow Douglas, he is not alienated like his father, who effectively hates civilization because he cannot be a part of it. He is not treated like a total outsider and does not feel ignorant or left behind. On the other hand, because he does not start out being a true member of the society, he is able to think for himself and dismiss the rules authority figures say are correct. By the end of the novel, Huck is no longer a slave to the rules of authority, nor is he an ignorant outsider who looks out only for himself. This shows Huck’s moral and psychological development, rendering the description of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” as a picaresq...
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