Witches And Fiction

This chapter was all about Tom's perfection for all the escape stories. He wanted to have rats, and snakes, and sorrowful etchings on a rock. And threatening letters to his own family. Tom requires perfection. All the stuff Tom is doing is to fulfill his fantasy of being in the middle of a fiction story. And Huck goes along with it because he's never had someone to follow, and now he just got one, and he follows Tom like a ducklings to their mother.

Trickery, And Superstition: Alike Or The Same?

This chapter is all about deception, trickery, and witches. Huck and Tom trick Aunt Sally, Jim's keeper, and just about everybody in the house, for them to have a little fun. Morality, deception and outright lies rule the pages of this chapter, and yet the boys keep a straight face and a look of complete innocence, creating an air of dramatic irony that makes the story funny. After finally excavating all the way to Jim's hut, we are waiting to see what other trickery the boys will use next...

The Great Escape

In this chapter we see the imagination of two boys growing wild, thinking on an incredible plan to save Jim from captivity. Huck obeys since, that's what he's always done. And of course, they go ahead and do some morally incorrect things to go with the plan they like. They brake the moral law, yet according to Tom they're not breaking the robbers law. Of course Huck grumbles about it a bit, but lets it go, like he always does. His morality hasn't changed, and it won't change much more for a while.

The King, And Duke, Of Fraudland

Chapters 29 and 30 have something in common with many other chapters we've read recently. The King, and the Duke are frauds, like in the rest of the chapters, yet this time they get caught in the act, and are almost lynched to death. With the omnipresent narrator, we get the dramatic irony part of the story, where we know the rapscallions are setting the town up. As well we get another version right on that same idea, that of situational irony. Since the frauds think they're setting the town up, yet they get fooled, and almost hanged because of their actions.

Corrections for life

One of the most common actions they do is slapping each other for no apparent reason. This is an excellent way to employ farce.