Wow, four already? Cool,
So interesting chapters...to say the least. Let's keep this question simple: how does the duke and the dauphin compare to Huck and Jim?
Go crazy, seems as though everyone else is already...
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So this seems relatively easy, Jim and Huck represent morality and the duke and the dauphin are con men. The funny thing is though, Huck is a really good con man. I mean he's spent the great majority of the book conning people, but usually not out of money, that's where the big difference is. Huck is still moral while he's conning people, I mean he never really takes advantage of people, and he doesn't really hurt anyone, but these guys are just going crazy. They remind me a little of the robbers from the boat, don't know why, but they just seem to have the same sense of morals here. (Leave him on the boat to drown instead of shooting him/ Con them out of their life's inheritance)
ReplyDeleteI like Jim a lot. (I mean, I hate it when he talks, but once I decipher it, I like it) I think that he is the epitome of morals in the book. He forgives people easily, I mean he's hard on Huck but more in a way that's trying to get him to be a good man; but back to the point, he's really hard on himself. That thing about his daughter and the whole thing with her being deaf, I felt so bad for Jim because he felt so badly about it. I think that Jim is serving as the father figure that Huck hasn't had. Well...maybe more like an Uncle, but that doesn't matter. Jim is limited by his race with what he can do and say, but it seems like he's trying to let Huck figure things out for himself. I mean, he's given his opinion about how they shouldn't do things, but usually he still goes along and helps when Huck gets into a jam. I feel like Huck is starting to understand that Jim is a human and that he can think and have feelings now. He was always limited by the racism and he was never able to see Jim in a useful way. (So now that I went really off topic!)
I think that if it wasn't for Jim, Huck would inevitable end up like the Duke and the Dauphin: a con man, and his morals definitely wouldn't be se good.
One thing's for sure. I really don't like the duke and king. They are pure con men with no morals through and through. What you said about Jim was right on it. He is the morals that keeps Huck from becoming just like them, but even so, Huck does show his own morals, like when he told Mary that the king and duke weren't really her uncles. He felt guiltly about it. But I digress.
ReplyDeleteThe duke and king really have no care in the world. They are ready to con anyone as long as they get what they want. They had no sympathy when they were stealing from a family of daughters who had nothing to support them, but their father's money. The only family they wanted was their uncle's and they took the truth of that away from them also. They were just truly horrible people.