According to the dictionary it is "living or continuing longer than another person or thing". ... That night his father got drunk and tried to kill Huck and when Huck had the chance to escape he didn't. ... A few days later after Huck had run away Jim, the runaway slave found his father dead in a floating house. ... He had to face many problems in his journeys. ... So he jumped into the river and swam to an island not to far away from where he had lived. ...

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"It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds.... To further elaborate on Jim's care for Huck, it was not an uncommon occurrence on the journey on the raft for Jim to take on Huck's night shifts watching over the raft. ... Attempting to have some fun by placing snake skin by Jim's leg as he slept, everything goes wrong when Jim's leg gets bitten by the snake's mate and swells up for four days and nights. ... "I wouldn't ever take a-holt of a snake-skin again&qu...

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(written for Pre-IB English II class) Chapter Eight Analysis Very few authors can tactfully blend more than one tone into a single settling. ... However, as the days passed, Huck quickly grows weary of his new life. ... "So for three days and nights"(39), Huck finds himself going through a monotonous routine: lounging in the shade during the daytime, and listening to the current and counting the stars through the long hours of night(39) to escape from feeling lonesome. Gone is the vigor he first had coming to the island a few short days before. ... No longer is he seen as only a rebel ag...

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Both John and Huck long for true freedom. ... Huck uses his skill to return the six thousand dollars to its rightful owners and John uses his skill to break sixteen horses in four days. ... Mutually Huck and John "encounter every kind of viciousness and hypocrisy whenever they come in contact with society,"" (Hanson 3726) whether it be getting off the raft or going into a wax camp. ... When describing John and Rawlins riding at night, it is almost tangible to walk among the stars. The darkness "carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but...

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