Huckleberry Finn Human Interaction

The human interaction on the raft is trusting, comforting, and kind while exploitation, distrust, and fear dictate relationships in the nonesuch scene. On the raft, Huck refers to himself and Jim as “we”, he groups them together as one being. Although Huck does use “we” in the second scene, it is less frequent, for he does not want to associate himself with the conmen. Also, after the four escape, “the duke fairly laughed their bones loose over the way they’d served them people” (208). The duke and king, who mooch off of the civilized world, are amused that they pull this off, but Huck is not amused. The Duke forces him to flee and fear for his life, and they perceive running from the anger they caused very positively and humorously, so the …show more content…
In addition, he calls the conmen “rapscallions” (208). Obviously it is a negative term, so Huck does not enjoy being around them due to their treatment of others. Huck and Jim are in edenic scene on raft, where being naked does not bother them, and they do it because it feels better. On the raft, Huck and Jim were “ always naked, day and night… the new clothes Buck’s folks made for me was too good to be comfortable, and besides I didn’t go much on clothes, no-how” (179). They are comfortable with one another and trust each other enough to be naked around each other as much as they can, and Huck seems to be more comfortable without clothes rather than with them. In the Nonsuch scene when the king emerges from the curtain naked and painted, Huck describes him as “ring-streaked and striped, all sorts of colors, as splendid as rainbow. And- but never mind the rest of his outfit, it was just wild”(206). Huck enjoys being in the wild, and the nakedness, and animal-like get up of the king is the only thing resembling that in the conmen’s play. In response to the king’s nakedness the crowd “almost killed themselves laughing”