Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 8

This is a different copy of the same book so the pages numbers are different in this copy.

Passage:
"I took the axe and smashed in the door--I beat it and hacked it considerable, a-doing it. I fetched the pig in and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the ax, and laid him down on the ground to bleed--I say ground, because it was ground--hard packed, and no boards Well, next I took an old sack and put it a lot of big rocks in it,--all I could drag--and I started it from the pig and dragged it to the door and 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. I did wish Tom Sawyer was there, I knowed he would take an interest in this kind of business, and throw in the fancy touches. Nobody could spread himself in such a thing as that.

Pages:
22

Comments and Response:
I find it very interesting how elaborate Huck Finn's escape was from his father. Instead of just making it seem like robbers broke in and stole everything, including him, he went as far as staging his own death. Staging his own death, I thought, was a very thoughtful and elaborate scheme, because one does not simply do that for fun and must be pretty desperate to leave which he was because his father was pretty abusive. It also creates good imagery because of how detailed the fake robber and murder was.