Analysis of 'The adventures of Huckleberry Finn' by M.Twain part5

Chapter 42

Tom doesn’t actually shred a letter he received from Aunt Polly, Sally & sister. Sally reads the letter when she sees “Tom,” who she thinks is Sid. The boy is brought in semiconscious on a mattress, accompanied by a crowd including s & s and the doctor. Sally stays at Tom’s bedside, glad that his condition has improved. They are glad to learn that Jim is chained.

Tom explains that Miss Watson died 2 months ago and that her will stipulated that Jim should be set free. The old woman regretted even having considered selling Jim down the river. Aunt Polly enters the room; she has come to Arkansas after receiving a letter from Sally mentioning Sid Sawyer - Tom - alias - who was actually Huck. Polly has been forced to appear in person to sort out the confusion and she doubts Tom & Huck very good at both boys for their misadventures.

Chapter 43 - The Last!

When Huck asks Tom what he had planned to do once he had freed the already-freed Jim, Tom replies that he was preparing to pay Jim for his trouble and send him back a hero. When Aunt Polly and the Phelpses hear about the assistance Jim gave the doctor in nursing Tom, they immediately unchain him. Jim makes a full recovery and wears the bullet from his leg on a watch-guard around his neck. He & Huck would like to go on another adventure to “Indian territory.” Tom tells Huck that the dead body they found on the floating house was Pap.

Huck does not plan any future writings; instead, he plans to head out west because Aunt Sally is already “trying to sivilize” him. Huck has had quite enough of that. Slavery was already abolished, but the nineteenth century was the period of segregation and apartheid.