The Great Gatsby Quotes

Keeping the Money from Pap. Characters: Huck, Judge Thatcher. "'No, sir,"' "I says,"I don't want to spend it. I don't want it at all-nor the six thousand, nuther. I want you to take it; I want to give it to you-the six thousand and all." (pg 16). Huck is giving all of the money that he has to Judge Thatcher because his father is back in town. Huck realizes that if his father gets a hold of the money, then he will spend all of it on buying alcohol. Huck realizes that what his father is doing is wrong and is trying his best to stop his father’s self-destructive behavior.
Huck has had enough. "But by and by Pap got too handy with his hick'ry and I couldn't stand it. I was all over welts. He got to going away so much, too, and locking me in. I made up my mind I would fix up some way to leave there. (pg24) In this scene, Huck realizes that his father is not the person that he should be living with and decides to run away. It takes a great amount of maturity to be able to judge people in this way. Especially one’s own father. Huck's decision to leave is an important development in his maturity as well as the start of

"It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a slave; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterward, neither. I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one if I'd 'a' knowed it would make him feel that way."(pg 86) In this scene, Huck plays a trick on Jim after they became separated. Huck finds Jim while he is sleeping, and so he lays down on the raft and pretends that the separation never occured. When Jim awakes, Huck manages to convince him, for a time, that he dreamt the whole thing. Once Jim finds out he is being fooled, he becomes angry with Huck and isolates himself in the wigwam. Huck manages to apologize to him even though he is black. This shows that Huck is slowly getting past the issue of race and begins to see Jim as a person rather than an