In chapter 29 Twain uses the weather once again to create the mood when the crowd is digging up the corpse. "...the wind swished and swushed along, and the lightning come brisker and brisker, and the thunder boomed..." The thing that struck my attention was when he told the reader that "...them people never took no notice of it, they was so full of [business]" I believe there is some meaing here about society maybe, but i don't understand what it may be trying to say. The closer the diggers got to the corpse and the bag of money, they "brisker" the weather became but it wasn't noticed? Does anyone have an imput on that?
Next i found when Huck was running away from everyone he "had the road all to [himself], and [he] fairly flew- leastways, i had it all to myself except the solid dark..." It doesn't say it's black out but it is assumed when he describes the darkness as solid. Blackness normally represents sin or evil and Huck ran through it all the way to the river and where Jim was. Maybe this is what was going on inside Huck about what happends on land, (but now seen visually) and how he is fighting to keep his his opinion of Jim the same as when they are on the river.
I agree that it was ironic that even though the weather was getting worse and worse, they just kept working on. I also feel that the weather could mean that none of them have a soul or real heart if they are just concerned about finding the money and proving the frauds wrong.
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