Practicality vs. Novelty
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer begin to free Jim by using knives because this is apparently the way that it is done in books. After making little progress, they realize that it is simply much more realistic to use pickaxes.
"It ain't no use, Huck, it ain't going to work. If we was prisoners it would , because then we'd have as many years as we wanted and no hurry...But we can't fool along, we got to rush; we ain't got no time to spare" (Twain 254).
The futility, however, does not stop here. Tom tells Nat that he needs to bake a witch pie for Jim in order to get rid of the witches. He plans to bake a rope ladder into the pie, even though it is completely unnecessary.
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer begin to free Jim by using knives because this is apparently the way that it is done in books. After making little progress, they realize that it is simply much more realistic to use pickaxes.
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