Our friend Huck strikes again.

5. The escape from his father reflects the theme of FREEDOM. He is free now, illegally. (so is Jim: he is a slave, property of Miss Watson while Huck belongs to his father according to laws.) So the escape is breaking rules that keep him linked to his father, but rules that make him actually a prisoner, that's why he becomes free escaping.

6. Huck's wish is itself ironic: he wanted to be proud of himself,and he would have obtained this feeling by showing Tom his work, alhtough he consider Tom to be better than him, but the plan wouldn't have been successuful, because Tom would have put some irrealistic details. So Huck's wish is ironic because if Tom would have been there, he wouldn't have been able to escape safely.

7. The ironic fact is that the bread arrives actually to Huck, and he is considered dead. So the believes of the superstition actually happen. Huck does not believe that prayer is linked to have concrete things anymore, after his discussion about the prayer. But here it seems that the spiritual gifts become actually real gifts. We can see the theme of rebirth, cause he is returning to life, a new life.

8. Jim is scared when he finds Huck because he is escaping too against the law, so he is also reluctant to tell Huck his story because he didn't know yet if he was a "man of word" or not. If Huck would have come back to the shore and told everyone Jim's story, this would have meant death for the slave.

9. The ribirth is given by the new situation: they both are free from their past and have a new life ahead of them. Although Huck has the chance to begin everything from the beginning, he knows the implications of his actions: he is breaking the law because he is helping a slave to escape.

10. Huck does know that what he is doing his wrong, against the society, but his honesty is too strong to betray his partner.

11. Jim sees different events and links circumstances with consequences in that paricular case, applying those to every condition similar to the one he has lived. So what actually happened is applied to general cases.

12. The trick is typical from Huck: he wants to play, and does not understand the consequences of his actions in first place. The result of this one trick is Huck's beginning of a period in which he will believe in superstitions and he is ashamed of himself at the moment, although he doesn't admit it: Huck is still a little child that will moral-develop through the book

13. Huck's trip to shore shows us another side of Huck: he is actually foxy if in the need. In fact his stratagems help him in reaching his goals.

14. The common human trait that emerges is exaggeration: he exaggerates to get people's attention, as we already saw in the previous chapters also Jim did with the witches' story.

15. The satire is something that is used to.. "change the society" making fun of it. In this case, there is a paradox: the reward is greater for the person who would find Jim who is a slave, instead of the reward for catching a (possible) murderer: pap. So here the satire is used to tell people the absurdity of the valuing: a murderer of course is a "worse" person than a slave, he should be put in prison, but the greater reward is given for a slave that works.

HERE WE GO WITH PAAAAAAAAAAART TWO!

1. Huck's distort logic makes him think that borrowing and stealing is the same think because of the different precepts heard over the years from different people. Nevertheless, he has good moral values, so he decides that he won't steal if not needed.

2. We can understand something from Huck's insistence: he is an adventurous kid and he wants to be like Tom Sawyer, or like one of the characters of his books.

3. The name of the boat is an irony: Walter Scott is a romantic writer. His novels included fantastic epiphanies and characters. Twain's story is, in contrast, very realistic and "normal" since his licterature wanted facts more similar to reality.

4. Huck does try to be a good person. He tries to imagine himself in the same condition, as a grown up. He does his best to help people, showing his kind side. Besides, he thinks of the murderers as his "friends", as his partners in a future life because he thinks he might end up being a murderer someday.

5. The satire is in the man's response to Huck's quest for help. Huck uses a trick to get help: he pretends that the lady in danger is a relative on a rich man mentioned previously by the boatman himself. We can see how smart he is here. The man is not moved by good feelings: his reason to help the man is because of money, not of real care. This is a criticism to the society: people does not act because of values but because of money.

6. Jim thinks he is trapped anyway because he doesn't see any solutions for a safe life after anything that could have happened, in any case it would have been a bad situation: either his death if he died or slavrey again and punishments if he got caught again

7. Huck relies his knowledge on a romantic and non precise idea of the kings. He doesn't actually know about them because of lack of education

8. Jim's understaning of kings' role is as messed up as Huck's.
Jim associates the knowledge of a small legend (of King S., who is said to have chopped a baby in a half) to all the kings' duties. (Almost like superstition, from a small single case he applies this concept to everyone) but although he doesn't understand the exact point, he does take a side against them thanks to Huck's not exact but rooted-in-thruth stories. His vehemency anyway is probably due to the  allegory because the same situation of all the people dependent from one man is the same situation that happened in the fields where slaves (Jim) worked. So he is actually against the type of society because he is the one who is dominated.