While Jim and Huck’s adventure goes on, their fake stories and lies get even bigger. First Huck tells the Grangerford family that he is an orphan; but when they meet the 2 con artists, Huck announces that Jim is the orphaned one. Sooner or later, they are going to be caught somehow by their many lies. But although Huck lies so much, he is doing it for a good cause. Because he and Jim cannot be noticed by anyone, they have to disguise themselves. If they don’t disguise themselves, Huck will have to go back to his Pap and Jim will have to go back to Miss Watson to be given away to. I think Huck having to lie about their identities is a very sly thing to do, but he should have his stories straight instead of changing it all the time because he can get himself into serious trouble.
What got me thinking was when Huck encountered the Grangerford family. They seem to be nice and hospitable to him; but when it comes to the Shepherdson family, both families get into a gunfight every time they see each other. Although Huck asks one of the Grangerford’s family members, Buck, why their families are always feuding; Buck does not seem to know why. That statement made me think of why they would feud in the first place when they don’t even know the reason for or how it all started.
The two con men that Huck and Jim interfere with in Chapter 19 remind me of them in a way. They both have a wide age difference; they are both very deceitful in their own way. They even disguise their names to be “Duke” and the famous “Dauphin,” the long lost son of King Louis XVI of France. I picture them to be very whimsical, which I also see in Huck and Jim as well.
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