chapter 32

Huck is a very amusing character becaus he is always thinking on his feet. He is incredibly smart in the relm of common sense. He is impressively good at putting two and two together and coming up with wasy to solve the issue. In chapter 32 Huck does just this. He takes the place of Tom Sawyer at the Phelps house and is very good at embodying who Tom is. Huck claims being Tom, his best friend, is "easy and comfortable". He knew however that he could not keep up the charade for very long so he ran outside at the first roar of a steamboat and waited for Tom's arrival.

I also found it very interesting in this chapter the revival of white supremacy. Mrs. Phelps says "well it's lucky because sometimes people do get hurt" when Huck is telling her of a boat explosion where only one "nigger" died. This shows that Mrs. Phelps truly doesn't see black people as people because she says sometimes explosions such as those could be unlucky and people do get hurt, completely disregarding the fact that Huck had just told her someone DID die! Although the book did not say it I feel as though this bothered Huck, consciously or unconsciouly, and is one of the driving factors in standing behind his will to free Jim and hell to what everyone else has to say about it. Huck is ok with going against the social norm because he believe it is the right thing to do for a friend.