Chapters 21-43

This starts off as them doing all the plays. They are going from town to town performing, they have earned $465. Then they come across Peter Wilks. Peter takes them to meet the Wilks family. Then Peter and his siblings get inheritance from his dads death. Huck steals the money and hides it in the coffin and the coffin get barred. Huck begins to freak out because he barred $6,000 and has just realized he can't get it back so he runs away. Then, he begins to get questioned about the money and tries to run again and finds Jim missing from the boat. A young boy describes the man that turned him in and it was the duke. A man named Silas offered him $200 to capture Jim in New Orleans. Silas actually turned out to be Tom sawyers uncle. What a coincidence! Then Huck decides to write Tom Sawyer to tell Miss Watson where Jim is, but he realized she would sell him away. now he is ashamed that he ever helped a nigger. He is kind of beating himself up over it, and he thinks its punishment from God for his sins. So he goes to Silas's house to find Jim, and they are sure Huck is their nephew. Huck escapes to the dock to inform Tom of what is going on and to tell him to come. When Tom arrives He makes a mast plan to break Jim out. but, then they decide the plan was useless because there was a mob. So then, Huck comes up with another plan, but it involved some of Toms aunt sally's things. They use them to dig to Jim. Jim goes along with the crazy plan, of course! They tell Jim's watcher that witches are haunting him and the only way to get rid of them is to give Jim a 'witch pie.' So of course he does, everyone believes Huck! Finally after long hard work he gets him the 'witch pie.' Then Silas and Sally receive a letter from an unknown friend saying some gangsters were going to steal Jim. So they send Huck and Tom to bed early and prepare for the thieves. There were armed gun men who attacked the shed but they escaped out the hole in the wall. But Tom makes a noise and the men begin to shoot. They make it to the the canoe but Tom got shot in the leg. Jim being the hero he is risks his freedom to help Tom get to a doctor. Unfortunately when they get to the doctor the local men want to hang him. But they can't do anything till his master gets there. Tom and Huck try to explain that Tom wouldn't be alive if Jim wouldn't have gotten him to the doctor. So Silas and Sally decide to let Jim go! Tom pays Jim $40 for his troubles, and Tom now wheres the bullet in a watch guard around his neck. The ending for me was kind of predictable about Jim getting set free, but it still kept me guessing. This book was slow in some parts for me, yet it still was very good!

Chapters 17-21

Chapter 17 ends with Huck and Jim being separated. Huck then finds a house in the country and a family that takes him in as there own. The Family is feuding with the neighbors, the Sheperdsons. It kind of reminds me of Romeo and Juliet. They are just killing people over something that happened in the past and the families are holding ancient grudges. And of course there are two lovers, but they are on different sides of the feud. What a surprise! Then when Huck is looking for water moccasins with his slave he comes across Jim. Jim tells him why he got lost and that they found the boat unharmed. Next Sophia runs off to marry a Sheperdson boy. And when the dad and two brothers got killed Buck wanted revenge. But him and his cousin got killed. Huck decided to leave so he went and got Jim then left. Later on they come across to guys one about 70 and one about 30. Both running from trouble. The 30 year old said he was a duke going threw a hard time. He convinced Huck and Jim to wait on him! Then the 70 year old said he was Lewie the 17th so he would get attention. They made Huck and Jim do the dumbest things! Like bow when they speak, feed them, and keep watch out in the bad weather. If I were escaping for freedom I wouldn't listen to them. Next they have a great idea to go to town and get actors and perform Romeo and Juliet for money. The town hated the play so they left town. But now the duke had an idea to travel in day time and say they were turning Jim in for a reward. now they are in a very southern town. Its kind of funny because it sounds alot like some people in Purvis; drunk, kind of crummy homes, and nobody cares!

chapters 8-17

Chapter eight starts off with a bang. Literally, a boat is shooting bombs over the water so Huck's remains will surface. Of course they didn't because he was laying in the bushes watching them. Soon after he begins hunting and comes across Jim, the widows nigger, asleep by a fire. Huck woke him up and Jim was very surprised to see him. They explain their stories to each other about how they got there on the island them began looking for food before the rain Jim predicted. Sure enough it rained and the river overflowed. They began exploring the island and found a house with a dead man in it. Huck and Jim guess that he was murdered by the shot in his back. They took what they thought they need and just kept on going. I thought it was kind of strange that they took women's clothes and wanted a baby bottle. What could they use that for? But I soon found out that Huck dress like a girl to enter town and get some news. He talked with an old lady named Judith. She give him the scoop and catches on to him being a boy. But Huck being the amazing lair he is came up with a cover up, and passed off yet another lie. When he and Jim leave down the river they ran into a recked boat that had murders on it. Huck wants to turn them in but without giving themselves away. Of course Huck being the genius makes it happen. As they continue down stream a larger boat moves over in the fog and acts like they are going to hit Huck and Jim. Both bail off into the water, and get separated from one another. When they finally cross paths again that night Huck decides to play a trick on Jim. He tries to explain his story and Huck deny it all and says he was dreaming, making Jim think of himself as crazy. Jim became upset with Huck about this. Huck soon starts feeling guilty for setting Jim free. The widow lost her help and she never did anything to hurt Huck. So far Huck is still exciting to me. His surprising lies keep me interested! I love the dialect it uses. The way Jim talks is a lot like The Piano Lesson.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chpt.1-7

The book starts off telling about how Tow Sawyer and Huck found money in the cave and got $6,000 a piece. And how the widow Douglas tool Huck in as her son. Huck couldn't stand it no longer living with the widow so he left, but Tom Sawyer told him if he'd go back he could be in his band of robbers, so he did. When they have the first meeting of the band they make up rule and all have to sign them in blood. The way it explains the rules the boys sound like they are eighteen or older, but when Tom is using his imagination and pretending to rob people and steel diamonds I could see they are kind of young. Soon Huck resigned from the band and so did everyone else. The book then starts talking about how he is in school. Huck says he's learned his multiplication up until seven times six is thirty five and that's probably all he will learn. Then it tells about his dad, Pap. People have tried to tell Huck that his dad is dead, but he doesn't believe them. Huck goes to the Judge Thatcher and tells him he can have all of his money, the $6,000 and the money he got in the mail. When Huck returns to his room that night he finds Pap waiting on him. He cusses him for going to school and knowing more than him. Pap told him to give him any money he had. Huck tried to explain that he had no money only the dollar in his pocket. When the Widow found out she tried the get custody of Huck, but the new judge in town didn't know Pap and wanted to keep the family together. Pap was quite angry about that and to Huck out to the cabin that was up the river, and pretty much held him hostage.Finally Huck couldn't stand it any longer and made an escape. He couldn't just go threw the door because his crazy drunk dad slept with the key under his head. So he had to make the perfect escape. Huck used a saw and cut a log that was covered with a blanket and crawled out when his dad left. Huck knew he couldn't just leave or people would look for him so he made it look like he was killed. I think Huck is very smart for thinking of this. I would have never thought of it. But he took a canoe and began floating down stream.
So far I like this book a lot! I like the fact that Huck doesn't want to be told what to do, he is like rebelling and doing what he wants. I kind of thought it was funny in the beginning when Tom Sawyer was pretending all of robbing stuff. I think this book is easy to relate to, like when your a kid and you run away from home. I'm excited to see what is going to happen next with Huck. Is somebody going to look for him? Will Pap ever find him? If so, is he going to kill him for running away? What happens to Tom Sawyer?

a separate peace 10- end

This book was confusing for me to read. It had a slow start and for me it never got any better. The only part I did like about the book was Finny! He was so spontaneous yet, relaxed and carefree. I kinda laughed when he started the snow fight,it was unexpected for me. Finnys death was even more unexpected for me which made it even more tragic. I would have never guessed he would have gotten a blood clot. I already didn't like Gene and it kind of made me mad when he didn't cry at what used to be his best friends funeral. Gene is just not the person I would want to friends with especially if I was Leper. Leper asked him to come up there and Gene knew people already thought he was crazy. And when Leper said one thing to offend him, Gene would even listen to him. He said he didn't care. That's not what a friend would do. Yeah I can understand getting mad but not as mad as Gene did. In the end this book was still hard for me to get into. It had its ups and downs, but for me it had more downs then ups. It was good to read but I doubt I ever read it again just for pleasure.

chapters 7-9

I think these chapters were kind of better than the others. They still didn't change my mind about Gene, but now there is another character that I don't like, Brinker. He really bugs me because I think Gene already is feeling guilty about Finny, and he is making it worse. He accuses him of pushing him out of the tree just so he can have his own room. That is partially true, but I still don't think Brinker should be jumping to conclusions. Then, when Finny comes back I never would have guessed that Gene and him would have gotten close again, or wanted help Gene train for the Olympics. I actually didn't think Gene would do it because he's not athletic. I think he agreed because he was beginning to feel guilty again. I also think he was assisting Finny just because he felt guilty. But in chapter9 it kind of threw me for a loop when Leper decided to enlist in the army. I wasn't exactly sure why he did, but he did. And when Finny didn't want the war to seem real that was not what I expected, it was sort of out of character for him. But the carnival was spontaneous and reminded me of the things Gene and Finny did in the beginning of the story that i liked, for example going to the beach. Even though my mind didn't change about Gene I still like these chapters.

the piano lesson

I actually enjoyed this book. When I was told that is was like an African American voice I didn't think I would like it, but that was my favorite thing. The voice it had was kind of something fun and different to read. The story line was sort of cheesy, but I completely agree with trying to reach the American dream. I want to have a nice house and money. But I'm not sure I would go as far as to selling something that is special to my family. I think Bernitha wanted to keep the piano for the right reasons ,but she didn't want to believe that Sutters ghost was there because of the piano. Boy Willy was being selfish because he just wanted money, even thou he knew Sutters ghost would leave too. I believe Bernitha knew she would be better off with Avery, she just wasn't over Crawlys death. And it kind of caught me off guard when Lymon kissed Bernitha. I also think she knows Crawly would still be alive if he had not taken the gun, but for her i think its easier to blame someone else for his death. I think the ending just left us hanging as to whatever happen. Did Lymon stay and get a job? Did Bernitha marry Avery? Does Boy Willy go back down south? I wasn't impressed with the ending ,but over all it was a fun book to read.