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I found quite a bit of humor and sarcasm in this reading and it was, so far, one of the most enjoyable ones too. Like when Huck and Jim find the crashed boat Jim says, “…dey’s a watchman on dat wreck.” And Huck replies, “Watchman your grandmother…”

Also, in chapter 12, restating from my first blog, I said Huck decides whether a thing is true or not to him normally by having hard evidence.  This time it’s when they are on the raft floating past St. Louis. People have told him there were twenty or thirty-thousand people living there but “ [he] never believed it till [he saw] that wonderful spread of lights at two o’clock that still night.”

Now in chapter 14, we see Huck’s opinion about Jim evolving when he realizes “…he [has] an uncommon level head for a nigger.”  And again when he says, “I never seen such a nigger.”

My favorite part has probably got to be when Jim and Huck talk about King Solomon in the bible and Jim isn’t getting the importance of the king saying he’ll split the child in two so both women are happy. His reasons of why he thinks it “[has no sense]” is so innocent because his mind is set and Huck soon realized that “ if [jim’s] got a notion in his head once, there warn’t no getting it out again.”

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In this reading there was A TON of superstition! Whether it was Huck doing thing he knew about from Tom, or it was Jim doing to saying them. I'm startign to think that, according to Jim, there's bad luck from evey innocent thing you do! I hope he realises some day that whether you expect it or not, bad luck is going to come. There wouldn't be such a thing as bad luck if there wasn't always good luck to come with it. But according to Jim, knowing how to bring good luck "aint no use to a body."

On page 66, chapter 9, two things caught my eyes right away. I'm not sure if they mean a whole lot to the book but to me, it seems like they mean a whole lot more then what is just said. The first one i just glanced over: "(the lighting) it was bright as glory". Then once I saw "...; dark as sin again..." and i knew something might be trying to be said? But i'm not quite sure what.

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The main thing that caught my attention is this reading was the part when Huck's dad chases him around the cabin with a knife screaming bloody murder...literally. It reminded me of a part in a horror movie when the dad "...was laying over by the corner. By-and-by he raised up part way and listened, with his head to one side.He says, very low: Tramp-tramp-tramp; that's the dead...they're coming for me." I think he very well could have been demon possessed there. The only thing that would contradict that idea would be because he was chasing Huck, trying to kill him, calling him the Angel of Death, and normally demons flee in teh presence of an angel or the power of God/ holy spirit

Another thing i thought of was the things Huck did and the events that happened when he finally escaped the cabin. The very first thing that he did was go hunting. He killed and used the blood of a pig to, in a way, -set himself free- from anyone trying to find him. Just like we have the -blood of that lamb- to set us free from our bonds and sins. After throwing teh pig to it's "grave" Huck runs and hides in hid canoe just like the soldiers that hung Jesus on the cross ran away. Now, considering the sin(s) that are to be forgiven, who changed at that moment in the book? Who could have been seen as "forgiven"? I think it was Huck's father. Unlike Huck expected, he came back COMPLETELY sober. I wonder if his character has changed at all after that night in town.

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It seems to me that Huck has only a One-Track-Mind when it comes to new things poeple tell him. Whether true or not, he decides if they're true in his mind or not. An example would be after supper when the widdow took out the bible and began reading passages about Moses. Huck was excited at first "and [he] was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by-and-by she let it out that moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then [he] didn't care no more about him.." I think the reason he quit caring was because he couldn't get any "real" hard evidence of his existance and all the things he had done. Who better to get the information from then from Moses himself, but he couldn't. However, he could prove himself right or wrong with the idea Tom gave him about witches and genies. "[He] thought all this over for two or three days, and then [he] reckoned [he] would see if there was anything in it. [He] got an old tin lamp and an iron ring, and went out in the woods and rubbed and rubbed...but it [wasn't any] use, none of the genies [came]. So then [he] judged that all the stuff was only just one of Tom Sawer's lies."