Sunday, April 14, 2013

More Betrayal, a little friendship as well: Entry #2

In chapters 26-30 new events occur.  Here Huck is with the Duke and the King and is scamming the Wilks family.  The family lost Peter Wilks and the nieces of Peter receive a large fund of $6,000.  The Duke and King are able to steal this money.  Huck starts to feel guilt during these events, he sees the innocence of these women and how "sweet" they are.  It seems like Huck was betraying their kindness and hospitality, he made up his mind to get the money back to the family.  He hides the money in Peter Wilks grave and plans to send the Wilks girls a letter telling them to dig up their fathers grave.   This scene shows how Huck went behind the Duke and Kings back to do the right thing.  Even though he is betraying the conmen it leads to good and intentions and is ultimately the right thing to do.  Huck goes to Mary Jane and comforts her, he tells her about what he did and gains a friendship within the process. By helping out the family Mary Jane holds a place in his memory.  Within his narration he tells us that he hasn't encountered Mary but he thinks about her.  This shows that they made a significant connection and I feel as though it was a connection of friendship.  The rest of the section ends with the real Wilks coming to expose the conmen but the conmen eventually get away. They do not realize that Huck caused the $6,000 of gold to appear in Peter's coffin.  They escape the town and flee.  Huck feels uneasy about the conmen, I feel in the future Huck would betray the conmen again because inside he still believes in doing the right thing.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hey Omar! I totally agree with what you said at the end. Huck is more than willing to betray the duke and king in order to protect what is right. In my blog I wrote about maturity. This shows Huck's maturity and highlights the immaturity of the duke and king. It is sad to see that a young boy is more conscious of right and wrong than two aged adults. I just want the conmen to go down. I am sure Huck will devise another plan to get the convicts in trouble with the law because as you said, Huck is a good person. I didn't see his act of theft as betrayal when I read it. I just felt that Huck was choosing right over wrong. And that is a quality of a good friend, not someone who frequently betrays