Thursday, April 29, 2010
Jordan Perkins "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
This book is one that has many foreshadowing in it. The next day a frame house was spotted floating down the river. Huck and Jim paddled out to it and come aboard; upon entering they immediately saw a body of a man. Huck was scarred of it so Jim took a look and said he had been shot... Later Huck wanted to talk about the body of the man, yet Jim was against talking about it. This it self is very questionable, and how Jim said talking about it would fetch them bad luck, “He said , he might come and a-ha’nting us,” (62). Jim gave one of his voodoo reasons and since Huck is still a child he easily believed it. However earlier times when Jim told him about something of bad luck he always explained to give Huck answers. Yet here Jim was very quiet, and was shut down about it. This gives questions about if: Jim knew the man, he knew the reason he died, or he knew the person who killed him. This also foreshadows if Huck’s dad killed the man or not. Some people could believe that down the story line that Huck has to turn in his dad for the murder.
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I agree with the ideas of JP, I do believe that Jim would have talked about it if he would not have known anything about it. I believe he might have known this person or how he died because he did not say anything and did not want to talk about it. He also knew that the man was shot fairly quickly, which raises some suspicion in my mind. I believe that it was Huck's father that killed the man. This might be why Jim won't talk about it, because he knows the murderer.
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