His body is found when Huck and Jim board the house floating down the river. Jim covers up the body and keeps Pap's death a secret from Huck until later in the novel. Tom was punished by Aunt Polly because he came late at night, playing and fighting with his freinds and with a terrible condition of his clothes. So, Aunt Polly decided to punish tom by giving the work on Saturday which is a holiday in the western countries and the punishment to Tom was to whitewash the fence.
Aunt Polly assigns him this arduous chore for all the reasons Heather Pine points out, but her real reason is to discipline her sister's orphan son.
Tom's first victim in his effort get others to do his work is the enslaved boy Jim. Tom's aunt has ordered Jim not to take over for Tom. At the end of the book, Injun Joe is out of the picture. Tom and Huck are hometown heroes. Huck has saved the Widow Douglas's life, and Tom has managed to escape from the caves with Becky.
The book ends with Tom and Huck making plans to begin Tom Sawyer's Gang and become robbers that very night. Tom's depression worsens, so much so that Aunt Polly begins to worry about his health. Becky finally returns to school that morning, but she spurns Tom completely. Instead of playing with the other children, Tom would sneak away from the schoolyard to the jail cell where Muff Potter was held prisoner, smuggling small tokens and gifts through the barred cell window an outlet to ease Tom's guilty conscience.
The crowd disperses. The duke and dauphin advertise for their next show at which no children or women are permitted. Chapter 23 : The duke and dauphin play to a full house, an angry full house on account of them getting ripped off by such a short performance.
The second night is also packed. On the third night, angry men from the first two nights arrive to hurt the duke and the dauphin who escape with Huck and Jim after receiving a large sum of money.
Chapter 24 : The duke and dauphin arrive in the next town, pretending to be the brothers of a man who has recently deceased who has left a large sum of money. Huck is ashamed. Doctor Robinson claims the two men are frauds, but nobody believes him. Huck is disgusted. Chapter 26 : Huck feels guilty for letting the duke and dauphin swindle the kind sisters.
The two enter and Huck overhears them talking about getting all the Wilks' property. Huck steals the money. Chapter 27 : Huck hides the money in Peter Wilks' coffin. He vows to write Mary when he leaves town to let her know. Huck is relieved in knowing the family will be reunited as soon as the fraud is discovered. Chapter 28 : Huck finds Mary Jane crying over the separation of the slave family. Chapter 29 : The real Wilks brothers and the fake Wilks brothers are brought to a tavern.
They are all asked to sign a piece of paper to compare signatures. The duke and dauphin temporarily talk their way out of the situation. To resolve the conflict, Peter Wilks' coffin is opened.
In the uproar, Huck escapes to the raft. He and Jim celebrate until they notice the duke and the dauphin are about to overtake them on their own boat. Chapter 30 : After nearly strangling Huck for deserting them, the duke and the dauphin blame each other for losing the money. Chapter 31 : The duke and the dauphin attempt several unsuccessful scams.
Huck escapes to the raft and finds Jim missing. Huck, despite his own moral objections, resolves to steal Jim back. Huck runs into the duke posting fliers for his show.
Chapter 32 : Huck arrives at the Phelps' where he is warmly greeted. Chapter 33 : Huck intercepts a shocked Tom before he arrives at the Phelps. Because Huck is young and uncivilized, he describes events and people in a direct manner without any extensive commentary.
Huck does not laugh at humorous situations and statements simply because his literal approach does not find them to be funny; he fails to see the irony. He does not project social, religious, cultural, or conceptual nuances into situations because he has never learned them. For example, when Miss Watson tells Huck that " she was going to live so as to go to the good place [heaven]," Huck, applying what he knows about Miss Watson and the obvious lifestyle that makes her happy, responds that he "couldn't see no advantage in going where she was going," and makes up his mind to not try to get there.
Huck does not intend his comment to be disrespectful or sarcastic; it is simply a statement of fact and is indicative of the literal, practical approach to life that he exhibits throughout the novel.
Previous Notice; Explanatory. There are a few important issues at play. Huck is not an adult. Tom Sawyer is not a stranger. The South is not a psychology lab. And slavery is not a bunch of lines projected on a screen. As it turns out, even though peer pressure is ubiquitous and conformity, a powerful force, there are certain ages where the dynamic peaks. One classic set of studies from looked at over children from the 3 rd , 6 th , 9 th , and 11 th or 12 th grades and examined their tendency to conform to both peers and parents on a range of behaviors.
What the researchers found was that conformity to peers followed a non-linear pattern: it peaked in the 6 th median age just over 12 or 9 th median age just over 15 grade, depending on the type of behavior—the antisocial behavioral conformity peaked, on average, later than conformity to other behaviors—and then decreased by 11 th and 12 th grade median age When the researchers looked at conformity to parents, they found a steady decrease in conforming behavior.
Indeed, for the majority of measures, peer and parental conformity were negatively correlated. Why is the parental trend important? Jim is an adult—and an adult who has become a whole lot like a parent to Huck throughout their adventures, protecting him and taking care of him and later, of Tom as well much as a parent would. Tom, on the other hand, is a peer. And his demands are far closer to the anti-social side of the scale. Is it so surprising, then, that Huck sides with his old mate? The behavior becomes even understandable when we add in a few more variables.
Context in large part determines how we act. A closed-door us is not the same as the us that faces the world in a social setting.
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