It frustrates me what the duke and king are doing to that family! I thought maybe sinse they had gotten on teh raft with Jim and Huck that they would eventually have a change of heart also, but that possibility seems to shrink every reading we have. One thing that caught my attention was how Huck ended up being "[the king's] valley (or slave)". Huck is seen becoming more mature as we read on and he is also, finally, understanding that colored people are just as much people as the whites, and i find it ironic that he's now treated like a slave. At teh big celebration feast Huck "waited on [the king and duke], and the niggers waited on the rest.." Then he had to eat in the kitchen with the other workers.
I think an easy way to show that Huck is becoming more mature is the stories and lies he's making up. In all the previous chapters he would make up a new story for every place he stopped, whether Jim was taken into consideration or not, and he always used his imagination to make his stories untracable so the people would have to trust his word. But we see in the part where he is eating with the girl in the kitchen and she continues asking questions that make his lie bigger and bigger, he is finding it more diffficult to come up with an explanation and eventually makes it all sound fake.
I never took into consideration that Huck has actually been treated like a slave. His "slavery" could contribute to his understanding of black slaves and help him realize that slaves are actually people, and they have genuine feelings.
ReplyDeleteGood job relating Huck to the slaves and noticing that he is now in their shoes seeing what is like for them.
ReplyDeleteYou supported your points very well:)