Grangerfords: Family Feud Gone Crazy. Buck Grangerford The feud between the Shepherdsons and Grangerfords Chapters is one of the most violent episodes in the novel.
Huck and Jim get separated after a steamboat hits the raft. Huck finds a big log cabin owned by the Grangerfords and is greeted by dogs and threats. After Huck is in the cabin, the family realizes that Huck is not a Shepherdson. Huck goes by the name, "George Jackson. The two become good friends, and the family decides to take Huck in. According to Huck, Colonel Grangerford is "a gentlemen all over; and so was his family.
The feud between the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons is one of the more memorable chapters in Huck Finn because of its extreme violence. The fact that the two noble families do not know why they continue to fight is ironic, but the irony deepens when the families actually draw blood.
Huck's casual observance turns into participation, and when he witnesses the death of his young friend, Buck, he is unable to recount the story to readers. The hated calls of "Kill them, kill them! The theme of death and brutality, then, is present in all facets of society, including the wealthy, and the peace of the river is never more apparent to Huck.
When Huck returns to the raft and he and Jim are safe, Huck wearily observes that ". You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. Pilgrim's Progress a religious allegory by John Bunyan Previous Chapters It is ironic that the Grangerfords, who are waging a feud of brotherly hate, approve of the sermon on brotherly love. Hypocritically, what they approve is the opposite of what they practice.
Huck's innocent observations about humans and hogs in church allow Twain to drive home this charge of religious hypocrisy. Huck inquires as to what the note is about, but Ms.
The note in the Testament is right at home there: its contents give Miss Sophia information about meeting with her beloved, whish is consistent with the ideal of brotherly love.
Religion and Superstition. Huck heads down to the river , only to notice that the slave tending to him, Jack , is close behind him. Jack tells Huck that, if he comes down into the nearby swamp, he Jack will show him a lot of water-moccasins a kind of snake. Huck, though suspicious, agrees, and follows Jack through the swamp.
Instead of leading Huck to snakes, however, Jack leads him to Jim , hidden on a densely vegetated piece of land. Jim tells Huck that their raft survived the steamboat crash, patched up by Jim himself, and is hidden. Right after Miss Sophia makes to rendezvous with her partner, Jack, of his own free will, and with benevolence, unites Huck with Jim.
We might think that Jack is eager to help Huck because he has not been cruel as Buck is to his slave, and that he helps Jim because, like Jim, he also has a love for freedom. All the Grangerfords are out and about trying to prevent the marriage. Huck runs after the Grangerfords to the river road, where he finds mounted and armed Shepherdsons shooting at Buck and another Grangerford hidden behind a woodpile.
Huck hides in a tree and watches one of the Grangerfords shoot a Shepherdson out of his saddle. The other Shepherdsons tend to the man, and eventually ride away. Huck calls to Buck, who begins to cry, saying that his father and brothers are dead, and that he wishes he had killed Harney the day he saw him on the road.
Like Romeo and Juliet, Miss Sophia and Harney come from feuding families but love one another nonetheless. Their families try to put an end to their love for no reason other than the feud, as if to protect the family name, but all their actions to that end only consume the families themselves in senseless bloodshed. The Shepherdsons ride back and shoot at Buck and the other Grangerford boy.
Wounded, the two boys jump into the river. Huck feels so sick he almost falls out of his tree. He regrets, he says, ever having seen such things, and dreams about them often. After dark, Huck climbs out of his tree and vows never to return to the Grangerford house. Huck covers their faces, thinking how good Buck was to him. There was a clock on the middle of the mantelpiece, with a picture of a town painted on the bottom half of the glass front, and a round place in the middle of it for the sun, and you could see the pendulum swinging behind it.
This is one sweet pad. And when Huck stumbles into their lives, the Grangerfords treat him with the utmost hospitality and care… but only after they discern he has nothing to do with "the Shepherdsons. Oh yeah, that.
The Grangerford family may be pleasant and respectable, but they live in a world of fear and hate. They've had a hardcore feud going on with the nearby Shepherdson clan for about thirty years, and each family is intent on killing off the other, one by one, until no one's left standing.
Even Buck Grangerford, a boy around Huck's age, has violence on his mind all the time.
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