The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin: Response 3 of 4

After reading these pages, I have to admit that these pages show how cruel these two con artists are. I didn’t like them from the beginning, and I still don’t like them, especially because of what they did in these chapters. These pages start off with the chapter when the duke and the dauphin are still ripping off the people with their play. It’s really selfish of these people to tell everyone that the show was a success when it really was a scam for their money. I guess that’s the reason why the duke and dauphin’s play was a success. The part that really shows how messed up these con artists is the whole Peter Wilks’s scene. It is surprising that the two men were able to pull off such a prank of being the deceased Peter Wilks’s brothers from England. Well, they manage to continue this charade until the real brothers of Peter Wilks comes, which was so awesome. It reminds me of some comedy television shows where the imposter is unmasked because the real ones are there to expose them. I’ve noticed that Huck’s moral standards are changing in a good way, too. He also thinks that the duke and the dauphin are disgusting. I thought Huck would be worshiping the two men for doing such actions. Mark Twain is gradually showing Huck’s character development as the story progresses. Huck went out of his way and took the $6,000 that the two con artists received by pretending to be Peter Wilks’s brothers and hid it in his coffin. He even rats the con artists out by telling Mary Jane, one of Peter Wilks’s surviving nieces. Well, the story progresses with Huck running away to the raft, which was where Jim was at throughout this time. I was so relieved that they got away without the two con artists, but I was just as shocked as Huck when they caught up to their raft on a boat. I thought the two men were going to kill Huck for ditching them. The last chapter of these pages is really sad because this is where Jim gets captured for being a runaway slave. It’s really heart-wrenching when I found out that it was one of the con artists who made Jim get captured. Again, I admire Huck’s character development in these pages as he decides to rescue Jim from slavery. During this time, it was not right for a white society to help slaves. That’s why I admire Huck. It’s because of his friendship bond with Jim that he decides to do something to help Jim.