Dialetic Journals: Chapters 31- the end

Chapters 31-32: Quote: "So then we was pretty scared, and made up an agreement that we wouldn't have nothing in the world to do with such actions, and if we ever got the least show we would give them the cold shake, and clear out and leave them behind." (pg.191)

Comments and Questions: I believe that this is important because this explains Hucks character. This brings out his character by saying that he doesn't want to be involved in actions that he knows are wrong. This shows that when Huck sees something he doesn't like or doesn't agree with it, he doesn't listen and leaves. This is a good character to have because when you don't agree with someone, you don't have to follow them just because they think it's the right thing to do.

Chapters 33-34: Quotes: "All right; but wait a minute. There's one more thing--a thing that nobody don't know but me. And that is, there's a nigger here that I'm a trying to steal out of slavery--and his name is Jim--old Miss Watson's Jim."
He says: "What! Why Jim is--"
He stopped and went to studying. I says: "I know what you'll say. You'll say it's dirty low-down business; but what if it is?-- I'm low down; and I'm agoing to steal him, and I want you to keep mum and not let on. Will you?"(pg. 205)

Comments and Questions: This quote is important because this shows that Huck still really cares about Jim. Huck looks at Jim as a best friend and it seems like he would do anything for Jim. Huck even convinces his friend to help him steal Jim and that is a true quality that best friends have. I think Jim and Huck would do anything for eachother.

Chapters 35-36: Quotes: "All right, I'll do it, seeing it's you, and you've been good to us and showed us the runaway nigger. But you got to be mighty careful. When we come around, you turn your back; and then whatever we've put in the pan, don't you let on you see it all. And don't you look, when Jim unloads the pan--something might happen, I don't know what. And above all, don't you handle the witch-things."(pg. 226)

Comments and Questions: This is important because Tom is warning Huck about Jim. This proabably confuses Huck because Jim and Huck are so close and wonders what Tom has to say. It also makes me question the relationship between Tom and Jim. Jim and Tom could have had history before that Huck doesn't know about and Jim could someone else that Huck doesn't see. The other option is that Tom doesn't like Huck and wants to get back at Jim.

Chapters 37-38: Quotes: "On the scutcheon we'll have a bend or in the dexter base, a saltire murrey in the fess, with a dog, couchant, for common charge, and under his foot a chain embattled, for slavery, with a chervon vert in a cheif engrailed, and three invected lines on a field azure, with the nombril points rampant on a dancette indented; crest, a runaway nigger, sable, with his bundle over his shoulder on a bar sinister: and a couple of gules for supporters, which is you and me; motto, Maggiore fretta, minore atto." (pg. 233)

Comments and Questions: This explains the time period in the book because people don't talk with this kind of grammer now. This paragraph was very hard for me to understand because the words they use are very different and I have never heard them before. It also seems very informal the way they talk and the words they use, for example "nigger." They also use many different words that mean something else but they aren't used like that anymore.

Chapters 39-40: Quotes: "I did wish Aunt Sally would come, and get done with me, and lick me, if she wanted to, let me get away and tell Tom how we'd overdone this thing, and what a thundering hornet's nest we'd got ourselves into, so we could stop fooling around, straight off, and clear out with Jim before these rips got out of patience and come for us." (pg. 245)

Comments and Questions: I think this is important because Huck realizes that he has got himself in some trouble and what they did went a little overboard. He wishes that he hadn't done it and that his Aunt could help him, but they can't tell her. They have got themselves in a mess and now have to deal with the consquences that follow after. They need finish their plan because if they don't they are going to get themselves in trouble and have a bigger problem then they already do.

Chapters 41-the last: Quotes: "Tom's most well, now, and got his bullet around his neck on a watch-guard for a watch, and is always seeing what time it is, and so there ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I'd knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't a tackled it and ain't agoing to no more. But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before." (pg.263)

Comments and Questions: I feel that this is a great end to the book because Huck starts to reflect on himself. Huck also says that the book was hard write about and he ended it because he didn't want to write about it anymore. Huck got what he wanted in the end because Aunt Sally was going to adopt him and he was now going to be civialized. On everything that Huck went through his life he deserves to be able to have a family and now he does.