Theme Of Evil In Huckleberry Finn

In the next few chapters of Huckleberry Finn, Twain introduces a new side to the King and the Duke that you hadn’t seen before. When they arrive in a small town on the river, they go aboard a ferryboat that is heading to Orleans. They hear a young boy talking about to men that were supposed to come aboard to head to their brother’s funeral, and that they would be getting a large inheritance from the brother. So like all greedy men, the king and the duke decide to pretend to be the two uncles and head to the house of their “brother” with Huck. I think Twain uses the duke and the king and to show how another form of evil in the world is influencing Huck’s moral struggles. Since Huck met the King and the Duke they’ve pretended to be people that

Luckily for them, the people in the crowd don’t believe that they’re the real brothers and so unfortunately they stick with the King and the Duke instead. As this section of the story progresses, Jim begins to open up to Huck about his family and his past. He talks about how whenever he hears a slam or a whack over near the bank of the river, it reminds him of when he hit his 4 year-old daughter on the head for no reason. Huck begins to see how innocent and fragile Jim is, because owners of slaves probably beat theirs hundreds of times a day and never feel bad about any of them, but Jim hit his daughter one time, and has never forgiven himself for it, and this was the first time he talked to someone about it. I think that this shows how close him and Huck are becoming and how Jim is really beginning to trust Huck, even though he’s a white boy and basically his owner. However, as the story progresses, Jim no longer sees Huck as a white boy, and Huck no longer sees Jim as a slave, they see each other as friends and as normal human

When he arrives at the raft, Jims comes out and scares Huck so badly that he goes overboard into the river. Huck had forgotten that he dressed Jim up like an Arab in a big long coat and a furry hat, and painted his face blue so he wouldn’t be recognized as a black man. From seeing the illustration of Jim in the costume and reading Huck falling overboard, I thought this scene was a very funny and intense way to end the chapter. One of the things that I’ve come to notice in this story is that every time Huck arrives in a new town with new people, He always comes up with a different name for himself. Since he’s far away from home now, why does he need to keep changing his name? Is he afraid someone will know who he is and ask him why he’s there? Or maybe if he goes by his real name in one place and decides to stay there, someone from his past might come and recognize him by his name? Or maybe he doesn’t want to live in the past anymore and if he changes his name all the time, he won’t have to worry about having a set identity and he can just live freely without anything being set in