Analysis of 'The adventures of Huckleberry Finn' by M.Twain part3

Jim's escape and encounters

Jim's separation from his family

Jim is a slave of Miss Watson, and he left before Miss Watson had a chance to decide whether or not to sell him, separating him from his family.

Chapter 11

Jim avoids Pap and searches for Huck, Miss Watson, and Carolina blues. He assumes Jim.

The woman lets Huck into the shack but eyes him suspiciously, and she gets to the topic of Huck's murder. She reveals that Pap was a suspect, then people began to suspect Jim, as he ran away the same day Huck was killed.

The woman has noticed smoke on the island and has told her husband to look for Jim there. He plans to go there with another man and a gun. The woman looks at Huck and asks his name. He gives many blunders in this section. He reveals his real male identity. She understood his character. Huck says his name is George Peters, and she quizzes him to make sure he's telling the truth. Back at the island, Huck builds a complete fan from the cave and then returns to the cave to tell Jim they must leave.

Chapter 12

Huck and Jim spend several days traveling and drifting. One night, against Jim's objections, Huck goes into the wreck to loot and overhears two robbers. Huck manages to convince the others to let their victim be drowned. The robbers leave.

Huck finds Jim and says they have to cut the robber's boat to prevent them from escaping. Jim tells him that their raft has broken loose and floated away.

Chapter 14

Jim and Huck row back to shore, where Hawkin indicates to avoid the fire. Jim and Huck find some valuable things among the robbers' bounty, such as books and clothes. Huck reads some books, and Jim says he doesn't enjoy adventures, as they could easily end in his capture or death. Huck astonishes Jim with stories of kings.

Huck tells Jim about the dauphin (whom Huck mistakenly calls "dolphin"), the son of the executed Louis XVI of France. The Kentucky is rumored to be avoiding America. Jim refuses to believe that French don't speak English, as Huck explains.

Chapter 15

Huck and Jim approach the Ohio River, feeling happy together, but a fog (moral) (big mist) gets them separated from Jim. He tries to return, but the fog is so thick that he loses all sense of direction. Often, Huck reunites with Jim, who is asleep on the raft.

Jim is thrilled to see Huck alive; Jim tells him the story of his dream, making the fog into an allegory of their journey to the "free states." Jim soon makes all the debts that collected on the raft; he gets mad at Huck for making a fool of him after he had worried about him so much.