| Quote #34 "Well, I never heard the likes of it in all my born days! So it was YOU, you little rapscallions, that's been making all this trouble, and turned everybody's wits clean inside out and scared us all most to death. I've as good a notion as ever I had in my life to take it out o' you this very minute. To think, here I've been, night after night, a – YOU just get well once, you young scamp, and I lay I'll tan the Old Harry out o' both o' ye!" (42.36) |
Discipline and rules are tied together with love and concern in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This connection helps explain Huck’s willingness to be disciplined, despite his obvious aversion to society’s absurdities.
| Quote #35 Aunt Sally she was one of the mixed-upest-looking persons I ever see – except one, and that was Uncle Silas, when he come in and they told it all to him. It kind of made him drunk, as you may say, and he didn't know nothing at all the rest of the day, and preached a prayer-meeting sermon that night that gave him a rattling ruputation, because the oldest man in the world couldn't a understood it. So Tom's Aunt Polly, she told all about who I was, and what; and I had to up and tell how I was in such a tight place that when Mrs. Phelps took me for Tom Sawyer – she chipped in and says, "Oh, go on and call me Aunt Sally, I'm used to it now, and 'tain't no need to change" – that when Aunt Sally took me for Tom Sawyer I had to stand it – there warn't no other way, and I knowed he wouldn't mind, because it would be nuts for him, being a mystery, and he'd make an adventure out of it, and be perfectly satisfied. And so it turned out, and he let on to be Sid, and made things as soft as he could for me. (42.56) |
Once his real identity is revealed, Huck and Aunt Sally both want to maintain their familial bond to one another.
| Quote #36 "Doan' you 'member de house dat was float'n down de river, en dey wuz a man in dah, kivered up, en I went in en unkivered him and didn' let you come in? Well, den, you kin git yo' money when you wants it, kase dat wuz him." (43.12) |
Just at the point Huck has become part of another family, he is told of the loss of his original family, represented by his father.