Quote Response 10/25

Mark Twain: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" p. 73

1. "We shot a water-fowl now and then that got up too early in the morning or didn't go to bed early enough in the evening. Take it all round, we lived pretty high."

It seems here that Huck and Jim seem fairly happy in the situation that they are in. Though they are both on the lamb and cannot even go out during the day without a disguise (like Huck dressing up as a girl), they can often enjoy the little things in life like a good supper of water-fowl or catfish. It even seems ironic that they are so chipper in the condition that they are in (hiding from everyone).

Mark Twain: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" p. 83

2. "'I didn' know dey was so many un um. I hain't hearn 'bout none un um, skasely, but ole King Sollermun, onless you counts dem kings dat's in a pack er k'yards.'"

Jim says this after Huck reads to him about "kings and dukes and earls and such." I found it interesting that he hadn't heard of other kings other than King Solomon. Solomon was known for making wise decisions, one of which was deciding which woman was the mother of a child, of whom both claimed was theirs. Jim seems to make some wise decisions so it seems that he and Solomon are alike in that aspect. It would seem likely, though, since he is an uneducated black man, that he would know more kings in a pack of cards than there actually are in the world.