Tall tales in huck finn

Elaborate tales were also used in the novel as a way for the characters to protect themselves and others. In one example of this, Huck decided to go ashore and find out what was going on in the town, and he saw a woman that he believed would help him. Huck dressed as a girl and pretended that his name was “Sarah Williams” and said that his “mother [was] down sick, and out of money and everything, and [he] [come] to tell [his] Uncle Abner Moore” (56). By telling this tall tale, Huck found out that her husband was going to the island that night with a gun to find Jim. Even though he was caught in the first lie of being a girl, Huck managed to convince Mrs. Loftus that he was a runaway. Huck learned crucial information that he would have never gotten through honesty, and with this information he was able to continue on his journey with Jim. He cared about Jim, and in his heart did not want him to go back to being “owned”. After Huck and Jim stole

Both Huck and Tom created stories to entertain themselves. After a month in Tom’s gang, Huck and the others quit due to a lack of robbing and killing. To stir the situation up, Tom told the boys that “a whole parcel of Spanish merchants and rich Arabs... with two hundred elephants, and six hundred camels, and over a thousand ‘sumter’ mules, all loaded down with di’monds” were going to be in Cave Hollow the next day (12). To make things even more exciting, he led a fake ambush on them. He was not a true threat to anyone; he was only an imaginative mischief-maker. This was also demonstrated when he put one over on Jim. After Huck and Jim got separated in the fog, Huck reunited with him. Huck told a tale to Jim in which he claimed he had been there the whole time, and that Jim had dreamed the whole separation up. Jim got wise to Huck’s trick, saying that he had “[made] a fool uv ole Jim wid a lie” (86). Huck is portrayed as a rambunctious young boy who enjoys pulling pranks on people. However, after Jim revealed that this made him angry, Huck sincerely apologized. He was not trying to hurt Jim in any way. The young boys used tall tales as a way of amusement.

the robbers’ boat, found their raft, and went ashore, Huck told a ferry watchman that “Pap and mam and sis and Miss Hooker… [were] in an awful peck of trouble” (73). Huck could not tell the watchman the truth because he had stolen the robbers’ boat to save Jim and himself. Also, Jim would have been in danger of being captured, and the watchman would not have wanted to go and save a bunch of murderers. Instead, Huck created a story of a woman in distress and reward money. Huck knew that in doing this he was helping robbers, but he still felt that it was the right thing to do because he stole their means of escape. Later, the boys worried that they would miss Cairo, so Huck went out in the canoe where he ran across some men who wanted to search the raft. Huck told the men on the boat tha

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