so I thought the beggening was really boring. I kinda felt bad for Huck because he really didn't want to be there living with the widow and he does not want to be with his dad. His dad was a drunk who did not take care of him; nobody had seen him in like a year. I think the relationship between Huck and his dad is different because Huck fears his dad coming back to find him, and his dad doesn't treat him well but his dad will not leave him alone. If I were a character at the point in the story when Huck fakes his death and leaves his dad, I would have done the same.
The setting was important because it describes the south in a day to day way. It shows you how some person really living in that time would have spent their life. I thought it was funny when Huck and Jim went on the sinking boat to explore the captain's quarters and find a gang of murders on the boat. Then Huck comes up with a plan to leave them there when the ship sinks. I like how Huck feels guilty and tries to scam the Ferry driver into searching for the men at the wreck; but its too late. I also thought that the part where Jim gets bit by the snake is funny because Huck only meant to play a joke on him and did not mean for him to get hurt. At first I wondered how Jim and other slaves could have so many superstitions about luck. I didn't understand at first what Jim meant as far as the bad luck they would get because Huck picked up the snakeskin with his hands but understood later. I don't think this novel was supposed to teach us a moral, but to entertain us. My favorite thing about this book was that they're was no lesson to learn, but rather a story to follow along with. Through Huck's journey he experiences allot of different types of people, until the end when Tom Sawyer ends the novel with "style".
