I had mixed reactions when Jim and Huck decided to take the robber’s boat when they stumbled upon the wrecked steamboat. It was the right thing that they stopped the robbers from causing any more trouble; but yet, they were being robbers also by stealing the real robbers’ boat and leaving them stranded on the wreck. Knowing the robbers had put stolen items on the boat before Jim and Huck took it, makes me feel like they did more crime than the robbers did; but they did it for a good cause. Since Jim and Huck lost their raft and also had to call for help, grabbing the robbers’ boat was their only option to help themselves.
What I found very humorous was when Huck dressed up and pretended to be a girl named “Sarah Williams.” I liked how Mark Twain made the woman Huck encountered very witty and very aware of her surroundings; such as her suspicion of Huck dressed as a girl. She always asked him questions to see if he was lying or not about whom he was. What was funny was when she asked for his name once, then asked it again; and both times he changed the name. I then realized that Huck is a pretty easy person to trick. But at the same time, I feel that he could have been more careful with something as simple as learning a name. I do agree that he had made a good save though by saying both names are his. I do hope that Mrs. Judith Loftus, she soon reveals, shows up later on in the novel because of how tricky and sly she can be.
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