In the beginning of this chapter the duke and the king are putting on a play that is really funny and makes everyone laugh. "The people most killed themselves laughing..." The king even ran around naked to make people laugh and so the audience would tell other people to come watch the plays. I think it was a little desperate of the king to run around naked, but it was smart at the same time because it obviously worked. Then when the king and the duke are going to put on the next play, they take the people's money and run off. I don't know if they were afraid of getting rotten food thrown at them or if they were afraid of getting their money taken away because the people going to the play filled their pockets so full of rotten food that they were bulging. I think that the king and the duke are con artists and had that planned out the whole time. They wouldn't be the type of people that you would want to trust. When they ran off the stage, they got on the raft to go down the river.
Jim was on lookout on the raft that night and when it was Huck's turn, Jim didn't wake him up. Huck woke up in the morning, and Jim was sitting with his head between his knees crying because he was homesick and missed his wife and daughter. I would've been really sad too. I don't know if I would have been able to leave in the first place though because there was a risk of getting caught and he was leaving his family behind, but I think he ended up making the right decision because if he wouldn't have left, he would have been sold and move to New Orleans.
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Yeah, they definitely planned it the whole time because of the way they talked afterwards about how they knew the people would react like that. The king put on a good show, but only for like 10 minutes, which was why the people were so mad. They only came back and told others about it because they wanted to get the whole town in on it so they wouldn't be made fools of.
I'd probably be really sad, too, even if I was Huck watching Jim cry. I don't think Jim left his family when he ran away. I think they had already been sold to different people far away from Jim, which was why he was so determined to buy them back if he got money.
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