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Chapter 38: Tom is on my last Nerve I can’t stand that bastard! His games have crossed into sadism none of what he is asking from Jim help him gain his freedom, safety or dignity. For all the books and stories he’s read Tom’s an idiot with money his disconnect from reality has made others suffering entertainment for him which shows what comes from an unexamined life with no boundaries or limitations.White Lives

Chapter37-II: Tom is getting on my last nerves. Jim becomes a prop in Tom’s fantasy, exposing how ego and romantic ideals erase real human suffering. Tom is so ego driving no one but his story and heroism matter to him. Everyone around him is suffering for his antics even his aun and uncle are being gaslit unnecessarily.

Tom’s performative heroism, delays Jim’s freedom for the sake of a story he’ll tell in the future. Silas reading Acts 17 exposes Christian hypocrisy, since “we’re all Gods Children” doesn’t apply to slaves. Huck’s moral instincts are stronger than Tom’s, but class conditioning teaches him to distrust himself. Jim is reduced to a prop, showing how ego and romantic ideals erase human suffering.

Chapter 36: Tom and Huck are coming up with a plan to help Jim escape. However, Tom’s is very performative and confusing. It seems like if he wants to live the stories of the books that he’s read without considering Jim’s freedom. Huck on the other hand just wants him to escape. He wants a straightforward plan where they just dig a hole open or a board and Jim escapes but Tom won’t have it. Confusing Chapter

Chapter 33: in his hopes to find and rescue him, he comes across our back house where a white woman welcomes him into her home. She says that she’s been waiting for him and he pretends that he is whoever she thinks he is but he doesn’t know who that is yet he comes to realize that they believe he’s Tom Sawyer, which gives him a relief he’s hoping to go to town find Tom tell him what’s happening.

Chapter 31: Huck is not becoming “good” by society’s standards. He’s rejecting society’s morality entirely. He’s decided he’s gonna try and rescue Jim from the people the keen of the Duke sold him too. That doesn’t mean Huck suddenly understands equality or justice in modern terms. It means he chooses human loyalty over social rules. He’s applying Jim’s ideals to himself which brings him here.

Chapter 30: They’re all in the raft. The king grabs Huck out of anger because he ran off and accuses him of wanting to get away without the king and the duke. The duke tells the king to calm down because he would’ve done the same. Afterwards, they start blaming each other for taking the money and putting it in the coffin at the end Huck reveals the truth to Jim, while the king & the Duke are in a drunken stupor.

Reflection: Jim has been able to see errors in his ways since the beginning of the story. However, the king, the Duke, even in their old age have never been able to do that in spite of having freedom and power over Jim. Hook as a 14-year-old child or so is barely having that moral light beginning to spark gym is the only one that has had that moral compass since the beginning.

Chapter29: The Wilks fraud comes into the open. The King and Duke are exposed and the stolen gold is finally recovered. Huck escapes in the chaos, briefly believing he and Jim are free only to realize that the con men are still following them down the river. Jim is still the moral compass that they all refuse to acknowledge or be. Jim’s story about his daughter when he found out she was deaf due to Scarlett fever

Chapter 26-III: after speaking with Joanna Huck is realizing he doesn’t scam them. His girls are a nice people and he’s considering whether to snitch out the key of the Duke doctor or take the money for himself. Hide it somewhere that sends a letter so he’s gonna go look for the money.