The Robbers

While Jim and Huck continue to go on their adventures of looting and stealing, one night they come across a wrecked steamboat. Huck eagerly wants to go explore the boat and take anything of any value off the boat. With Jim strongly disagreeing, Huck climbs aboard anyway. While on the boat he hears two men talking to each other about killing the other man on the boat. During Huck's time on the steamboat, Jim and Huck's raft gets loose. Huck wants to cut the line of the robbers' boat so they couldn't escape. While the robbers are in the steamboat, Jim and Huck steal the robbers' boat and leave them in the wrecked steamboat. They take the robbers' oat up stream until they find their own. Huck feels bad for leaving them there stranded and finds a ferry watchman and makes up some lie about his family being stranded. He helps them because in a way he sees it as a possible outcome for his future. If he doesn't help people in need then how can he ever expect anyone to help him. It shows us Huck, although out casted by society still likes other people and cares for them. It shows the reader that even though Huck is in a pretend of gang of robbers and pretends to do the wrong thing, he still wants to do the good thing and helping the robbers was the right thing to do; even though they died before they could be helped. 

Huck's Trick

 When Huck arrives to jackson Island there isn't a person in sight. He inhabits the island for three peaceful days in which he does not much of anything. On his fourth day he runs into Jim. Jim believing Huck to have been murdered, thinks that he is a ghost. Huck never denies that he is in fact a ghost but instead goes along with the idea. He goes along with the story of him being a ghost because he wants to see what Jim is all about. I think that Huck just wants to know if he can trust him and have a little fun while doing it. He has been by himself for the past 3 days and a young man of his age needs entertainment. He is meanly doing it to see if Jim is trustworthy or not, to see if Jim was sent to look for him and trying to enjoy him self all at the same time. He is insuring his own safety from Pap. Plus he can do it, Jim strongly believes that he is dead so why not have a little fun with it. He chooses to play a trick on Jim now because he isn't back home with the widow and he can't get in trouble. Huck is just acting his age knowing that the consequences of playing a trick on Jim this time are less harsh then they would have been when he was with Tom Sawyer.