Huck Finn 4: pg 88-129

"There was four or five men cavorting around on their horses" (126). Cavort- jump or dance around excitedly

"she was leaning pensive on a tombstone on her right elbow, under a weeping willow, and her other hand hanging down her side holding a white handkerchief and a reticule" (113).  Reticule - a small purse or bag, originally of network but later of silk, rayon, etc.

“what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?" (104).

• Huck has seemed to be confusion about right and wrong so far in the story.  He is seeing right and wrong in different.  He sees it in the view of right and wrong in law, and acts that are morally right and wrong.  He feels that he has to turn in Jim because he is a runaway slave and is someone else’s property, but he feels differently when Jim tells Huck that he is the only one who he can trust.  Huck is confused, but does the right thing, by moral standards, by not turning Jim in.  Huck’s decision making bothers him so much that he decides that the next time a decision comes up he is going to do what is easiest.  Hopefully this decision does not become a bad one, but most likely it will lead to some trouble Huck might regret.
  

“there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft" (128). 

• Huck has moved from place to place and has really never had a permanent home.  He was beaten by Paps, he ran away from Miss Watson’s house, and then he escaped the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons.  He has never really felt at home or free. On the rat he feels free with Jim.  They live simple lives without rules, and Huck is very comfortable with that.  At Miss Watson’s he did not like the rules, but he is free here.  He was beaten by Pap, but he has nothing to fear on the raft.  Huck escaped the Grangerfords’ feud, and left sickened with society.  On the raft he does not have to deal with any of these things and feels free.  Jim also live a free life with Huck.  It is a safe haven for the two of them.