I'm starting to get really, really annoyed by Tom Sawyer. It's like he doesn't really take anything seriously. Everything is like a game to him. I mean, I'm glad Huck got to meet up with his old friend, but if Tom hadn't been there, Huck and Jim would already be floating down the river towards Jim's freedom. Tom's just a little too stubborn for me I guess.
I did think it was funny, though, how Tom had Jim come out of the shack or whatever it was called that he was locked in to help Huck and him move the huge rock. He was pretty much helping a prisoner escape so they could get a pointless rock to bring back to the prisoner to help him escape. Tom is just making this whole ordeal very complicated.
Huck definitely has more respect for Jim than Tom does. I don't know why Huck didn't barge into the conversation and stop Tom when he was trying to get spiders and snakes and rats in with Jim when Jim obviously doesn't want them in with him and when it obviously could kill him before he got out of his "prison". I suppose Huck had given up a while ago because he had said something about how that's just the way Tom is when he gets an idea in his head. It's kind of ironic how Jim felt that it was more work to be a prisoner than to be a slave because of the way Tom was making it.
I think Huck is somewhat going back to how he was in the beginning of the book: just following what Tom Sawyer does, no matter how bad it makes his conscience feel. Huck felt bad for stealing Aunt Sally's stuff after she found out that the shirt was missing (although I'm sure not all of it was guilt, but the fear of being caught). It was kind of clever, though, how Tom and Huck tricked Aunt Sally into thinking she couldn't count the spoons anymore...although tricking her wasn't the right thing to do.
I found the part with the bed-sheet pie kind of interesting because--after confusing Aunt Sally once more--they took a whole sheet, which is hardly long enough to use as a ladder anyway and they cut most of the sheet off to make it fit into the pie. Huck said that the sheet could've went into 14 pies (or some big number like that), so I must wonder how small of a piece of the sheet they actually used.
I hope Tom and Huck finally get Jim out before he ends up getting shipped off somewhere else. Because at this rate, they'll be there for weeks and the house will be bare of all the family's possessions.
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Yeah, i definitely agree. Tom is a pretty funny character in the novel, and this chapter is full of a great deal of irony. All in all, after reading it, i was ready for Jim to get out of there! Tom does add some excitement to the plot, though. :)
I don't agree at all. Tom just makes stuff interesting, it's not like he's a big problem or anything
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