ENG 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Smallpox
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Huck feels guilty because of the widow, saying she tried to make a good person out of him and here he was betraying her. Looking at this passage on p. 1342-1343: it froze me to hear done me no harm. I got to feeling so mean and miserable i most wished i was dead. (1342) Huck knows that jim has feelings, but doesn"t believe he has rights: jim is property and so are his children. He runs into fugitive slave hunters and decides to be protective of jim: plays on their fear and anxiety, they don"t want to go near the raft because of the. Small pox : gives him each and tells huck to lie about the small pox if other people ask him. They went off handiest at the time (p. 1344) close reading. Ain"t got no show : idiom/metaphoric on some level, has nothing to show for himself.
