Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn 15

Passage:
"'Why, Huck, doan' de French people talk de same way we does?'
'No, Jim; you couldn't understand a word they said--not a single word.'
'Well, now, I be ding-busted! How do dat come?'
'I don't know; but it's so. I got some of their jabber out of a book. Spose a man was to come to you and say Polly-coo-franzy--what would you think?'
'I wouldn' say nuff'n; I 'd take en bust him over the head. Dat is, if he warn't white. I wouldn't 'low no nigger to call me dat.'
'Shucks, it ain't calling you anything. It's only saying do you know how to talk French.'
'Well, den, why couldn't he say it?'
'Why, he is a-saying it. That's a Frenchman's way of saying it.'
'Well, it's a blame' ridicklous way, en I doan' want to hear no mo' 'bout it. Dey ain' no sense in it.'
'Looky here, Jim; does a cat talk like we do?'
'No, a cat don't.'
'Well does a cow?'
'No, a cow don't nuther.'
'Does a cat talk like a cow, or a cow talk like a cat?'
'No, dey don't.'
'It's natural and right for 'em to talk different from each other, ain't it?'
'Course'
'And ain't it natural and right for a cat and a cow to talk different from us?'
'Why, mos' sholy it is.'
'Well, then, why ain't it natural and right for a Frenchman to talk different from us? You answer me that.'
'Is a cat a man, Huck?'
'No.'
'Well, den, dey ain't no sense in a cat talkin' like a man. Is a cow a man?--er is a cow a cat?'
'No, she ain't  either of them?'
'Well, den, she ain' got no business to talk like either one er the yuther of 'em. Is a Frenchman a man?'
'Yes.'
'Well, den! Dad blame it, why doan' he talk like a man? You answer me dat!'
I see it warn't no use wasting words--you can't learn a nigger to argue. So I quit."

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52

Comments and Response:
This scene shows further character development of Huck Finn and Jim the former slave. This scene shows an in depth dive into both the minds of Huck Finn and Jim. Huck mind represents complex thought for a young boy, which I take to believe that Huck is wise for age. While Huck shows more complex thought, Jim is the opposite and shows a thought process of that of a little kid because of how he pieces information. Although Jim was wrong in his logic it is kind of hard to argue with it which makes this scene for character development so great.