blog post 2:huck finn (chap 13-17)

Widow Douglas Influence Huck Directly When She helps him understand the ‘book’ and when he says that It’s boring and he’d rather go to the ‘bad place’. Page2 The Widow Looked out for Huck as if he were her own son, she was basically turning him into a gentlemen. The Widow Made sure Huck Went to school. Made sure he was nice and clean. The Widow influenced Huck Indirectly as well. When the widow isn’t even around Huck thinks of her. An example of this is when Huck and Jim ‘Runaway’ Huck Had Sort Of a second thought like OH, Well I just helped Jim get away. That’s the Widow’s slave and in Huck’s eyes The Widows property.

Tom Sawyer Influenced Huck Directly, he teaches Huck to be ‘slick’ basically get away with things. And Tom influence Huck Indirectly as well. An example being, before Huck does some things, he might stop and say what would Tom think of that?

Pap, in my eyes doesn’t have a good influence on Huck at all. The most that I could say would be that pap is Huck’s motivation. I say this because pap doesn’t want Huck in school. He says I couldn’t read and neither could your mother, so no son of mine will try to out smart me. But hard headed Huck wants to try this ‘Dead Beat’ of a dad he has and still go to school. Knowing it would only make pap more upset. School is a wonderful thing to me, so if you have the opportunity take advantage regardless of what your ‘dad’ has said.(chapter 5) I also believe that Huck is afraid of Pap. Which is why Huck gave his money to Judge Thatcher, he didn’t want pap to get a hold of it. So I think that’s how pap influenced him indirectly.

I think Jim influenced Huck directly, with all the ‘bad luck and good luck’ things. Like touching the snake skin and everything.(chapter 10) and I think Jim influenced Huck indirectly as well, I think like that because Huck thinks about Jim without necessarily saying anything. So Jim sort of have an effect on him. Because Huck is having a hard time trying to figure out if he is doing the right thing helping Jim escape. He begins to get depressed chapter16.

Without these key influences in his life, Huck would be a very different person.