Episode 3 chapter 8-11

    Episode 3 chapter 8-11
This episode starts on chapter 8 when Huck is sad and thinking of his family.  Then he remembers about how they put quick silver in bread and send it down river to find the dead body, so he goes and fishes for bread to eat.   Then Huck meets up with Jim, who ran away, and they stay together from then on. Together they go to the house of death, and find a dead person, clothes, candles, and other necessities.  Next, when they move to the cave Huck puts a dead rattlesnake into Jim’s sleeping bag as a prank, but when a rattlesnake dies its partner curls up next to it, so Jim ends up getting bitten by the snake. Because Huck stole Pa’s whiskey, Jim is able to drink the whiskey to heal the wound.   Then Huck dresses up as a girl and sails down to town to get information on what is happening in the town since he left. He finds out there is a bounty out for Jim and Pa.  Pa has left and taken some of his money.  Then Huck gets caught and has to change his disguise because he is not a believable girl.  Huck also finds out that the lady sent her husband to Jackson’s Island to hunt for Jim.  


Characters – Huck, Jim, the Old Lady, the Old Lady’s husband, Pap, Judge Thatcher, Bessie Thatcher, Joe Harper, Tom Sawyer, Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary, Ship’s Captain

 This Episode is important because it shows how Jim and Huck work together. 

Superstition is a theme in this episode because of bad luck.  For example when Huck picks up the dead rattlesnake it brings forth bad luck.  Like when Jim gets bitten by a rattlesnake, and the old lady sends her husband to the island to hunt for Jim.

A symbol would be snakes which represent bad luck/Satan/evil and Jim.