I thought it was pretty cool on Huck's part when Tom is asking him about everything that happened to him because " it was a grand adventure, and mysterious..." and normally it would be Huck bragging about Tom's adventures. But think ever sinse Huck has the title of Tom's name, he has basically as equal as the real Tom. Then what really surprised me was when Tom decided to help Huck steal Jim! Here is a boy that was "respectable and well brung up; and had a character to lose...he was bright and not leather-headed' and knowing and not ignorant; and not mean, but kind; and yet here he was, without any more pride, or rightness, or feeling, than to stoop to this businiss, and make himself a shame, and his family a shame, before everybody." He seemed almost like a whole new Tom away from home and all his friends. I wonder if he's let anyone else see this side of him.
I was curious about "Jim's nigger" as Huck called him. Is there significance in the way a calls him that? Or just a way to say he's been the one bringing him food and caring for him...But also the one that locks him up.
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