Huck and Jim are blissfully distanced from humanity in the raft scene, but people in the play scene suffocate Huck. Huck describes the scenery from the raft as “Yonder was the banks and the islands, across the water; and maybe a spark-which was a candle in a cabin window” (179). Civilization was far away from Huck and Jim, and Huck prefers it that way for he views his time on the raft fondly. Similarly, “you see that axe flash and come down- you don’t hear nothing; you see that axe go up again, and by the time it’s above the man’s head then you hear k’chunk!- it had took all that time to come over the water” (178). Humanity is so distanced from Huck that it “took all that time” for the sound of the axe to reach him from across the river. “all”
