Jim's Daughter

At the end of chapter 23 Huck and Jim start talking and get on the subject of Jim's family. Jim hears a long clack in the background and it reminds him of his daughter Lizabeth. He talks how she had scarlet fever and got better soon after. After she got healthy, JIm said that she was just standing around and doing no work so he yelled at her in order to get her to start working and once she didn't move and just kept standing there, he yelled some more. JIm said that he could remember getting so angry that he hit his four year old daughter across the head so hard that he felt bad after doing that. Lizabeth started to cry and with Jim still being mad he stood there and yelled, but once he realized what he had done was wrong he grabbed his daughter and just hugged her. He found out she couldn't hear his commands because the scarlet fever had left her deaf so then hitting her became extra wrong. It shows that even though Jim is a slave and by society is labeled as having no feelings, that he loves his family as much as any other white man does. It is showing that Jim is a very caring person and that even though he is a slave he is the same as any other white male. 

Duke and the King

The young man, the Duke, made a paste that was suppose to move tartar from your teeth but took some enamel with it. So he fled to avoid the anger of the townspeople. The old man, the long last son of Louis XVI, held temperance revival meetings but once people found out that he drank, he had to leave town as well. With both of them no knowing each other and being con-artists they try to con Huck and Jim into waiting on them hand and foot. They start being as polite as possible to them and do everything asked, once it becomes apparent to Huck that they are lying he decides not to tell them he knows in order to avoid conflict. In my opinion it is wise for them to play along because neither Jim nor Huck know what the two men are capable of or if they know the stories of Huck and Jim. If the two men do know about Jim or Huck then they could turn them in to get money so it is better for the both of them to keep a low profile and not upset the Duke and King. 

Huck and Buck's Similarities

The first similarity between Huck and Buck are their names. Their names are are only a letter different. Both of the boys are similar in age and live in the same sort of environment. They are both surrounded by the so called "civilized" people and slave owners. With their surroundings being in common they also would much rather be in the wild living the sort of "uncivilized" life rather then being raised in a nice household, like they are now. In their first encounter, Buck takes Huck into a clothing store and rapidly starts to fire question after question to Huck. He asks him if Huck likes to dress up for sunday school because he doesn't and if he would rather live "uncivilized" then "civilized". Just like Huck, Buck is always up for a real adventure and none of the Tom Sawyer nonsense of pretending. They go into the forest for one of these adventures they enjoy and come across one of their so called rivals. Buck tells Huck to hide while he shoots at him. Once the shot is fired they both take off.