the end of huck finn

okay, first of all let me just say that the ending parts of this book really aggrevated me. But chapter 33 is when it really goes down. Seeing Tom and Huck together brought a little bit of suspense for me personally because of the coming of age aspect. If Huck goes back to his old ways, his adventures with Jim and his maturing would be for nothing, IF he was influenced enough by his old life style. A little side note, is coincidently after him and tom sneak out of the house (not the ideal thing to do) but then he starts to feel bad when he sees the con men, like NOW you feel bad! well that is maturing, in a way.
When I found out that Jim was in the shed, I was more confused by the fact that Tom was on board with trying to get Jim out of there. I guess in a way that there is a sense of coming of age, not only with Huck but with Tom. (so we think) But, one part of coming of age that I noticed was when Tom was really mad at Huck for taking a watermelon. (still getting used to how the writing is in this book). and he made Huck give them money for stealing the fruit, LIKE WHERE DID THAT COME FROM. throughout chapters 36-38 ish, Huck and Tom's plan for Jim's escape take some twists and turns, but it seems as though Tom has complete control over the situation, but that's not even his own friend, which I thought was kind of strange but its a good thing.
CHAPTER 40 IS ANXIETY STRONG. When they escape from the shed I was happy, because there was some team work going on there, so Tom recognized that Jim is the same human as he is, just a different skin color (I think this is going to change, we'll see) but yeah, tom survived with a  bullet in his leg.
basically to sum it up, Jim was free all along throughout the entire book, Pap AND Miss Watson both died, and they're all pretty much free to go on adventures and all of that junk. I think Tom and Huck both go through changes, Tom's was not focused as much, but I think the fact that for me personally, Huck did not change that much when he was reunited with Tom was a huge coming of age factor. Tom is definitely a bad influence kind of friend, and he was not influenced! go huck! thanks for reading!

22-31

In chapters 22-24 i was honestly not seeing much coming of age within Huck. In chapter 23, when Jim brings up his wife and children, it occurs to huck that maybe just maybe, black men can love their familes the way white men do. wow. Except, however, when you could kind of tell that he was annoyed and almost feeling above the robbers/con-men and what they were doing. So, in a way, Huck is growing because if this was him a while back, he would've probably been trying to trick people for money and maybe worse. Throughout the rest of the chapters, i didn't really find anything significant to coming of age. There were a few minor set backs, like when Huck steals money and stuff in chapter 27. But in all honesty, these chapters did not show much signifcance to me. I thought huck's stealing the money off the deceased man was almost a set back because of how awful he felt when he saw the dead body in previous chapters.
throughout the rest of the chapters i read, i did not see much coming of age. I felt like Huck took some steps forwards but a lot more steps backwards. I felt as though when he wasn't with Jim, he did not show his maturity and proper morals. I picked up on this pretty quickly within the chapters, and if my theory is correct, my next blog post will have a lot more "coming of age" because he met with Jim at the end. We'll see what happens...