Reader Response 2: Huck Finn (7 - 13)

“I did wish Tom Sawyer was there, I knowed he would take an intrest in this kind of business.” (chap.7, pg25,par 2)
Huck is positively influenced by Tom Sawyer because Huck is doing things that Tom would like to do in his spare time like play stealing from people and camping out in the forest, but only Huck is doing it for real. Huck is also influenced by how Tom thinks and looks at things in his own was.


"I took an old sack and put a lot of big rocks in it, - all I could drag - and I started it from the pig and dragged it to the door through the woods down to the river and dumped it in, and down it sunk, out of sight. You could easy see that something had been dragged over the ground."(Chap.7, pg.25,par 2)
Huck is negatively influenced by Pap because of the things he does and how he treats Huck. All that negativity caused Huck to run away and fake his own death.



Huck is influenced by Widow Douglas because there were something that he remembered her saying to him about stealing from other people and how that was a bad thing to do. "The widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it." (chap 12, pg 49, par 3)
She has like taught him a good thing that he remembered even though he took the food any way.


Huck is influenced by Jim because of how brave he is and there are somethings he has seen and Huck never seen before in his life. "You hold still -I'll go en see."(Chap.9, pg 38, par3)
Jim didn't want Huck to go in at the same as Jim because Jim is use to seeing terrible things being done to other people and Huck has never seen anything before.