![]() ![]() Huck’s true friendship is developed as he bonds with Jim during their journey. The reader has witnessed the imperfect friendship between Tom Sawyer and Huck. Twain is emphasizing the importance of friendship and loyalty.What theme is Twain building when Huck chooses not to turn Jim in for the reward money?.Pap is merely a fugitive and suspected murderer. Jim’s reward is higher because he is “property,” and could be useful to his owner.Hypothesize why the reward for Pap is only two hundred dollars and the reward for Jim is three hundred dollars given that Pap is suspected as Huck’s killer.Were it not for Huck’s warning, Jim would surely have been captured. Jim is the one with the bounty on his head. Jim is the one who is under suspicion for murder. From the conversation with the woman in town, there is neither danger nor necessity for Huck to be fleeing. The “us” in the title indicates that Huck feels he and Jim are a team.Explain the significance of the title, “They’re After Us!”.Jim got down on his knees, and put his ear against it and listened.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A Study Guide Chapters 11 - 20 Jim tried it again, and then another time, and it acted just the same. It fell pretty solid, and only rolled about an inch. What I wanted to know was, what he was going to do, and was he going to stay? Jim got out his hair-ball and said something over it, and then he held it up and dropped it on the floor. So I went to him that night and told him pap was here again, for I found his tracks in the snow. He said there was a spirit inside of it, and it knowed everything. Miss Watson’s nigger, Jim, had a hair-ball as big as your fist, which had been took out of the fourth stomach of an ox, and he used to do magic with it. ‘There you see it says ‘for a consideration.’ That means I have bought it of you and paid you for it. Then he wrote something on a paper and read it over, and says: ![]() ![]() You want to SELL all your property to me - not give it. ‘Please take it,’ says I, ‘and don’t ask me noth-ing - then I won’t have to tell no lies.’ ![]()
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