As part of their elaborate scheme of rescuing Jim, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn gather numerous rats spiders, frogs, caterpillars, and even snakes. They even wanted to get a hornet's nest. They make the mistake of storing the critters inside of Aunt Sally's house. Naturally, all of these animals escaped from their storage locations.
"We didn't half tie the sack, and they worked out, somehow, and left. But it didn't matter much, because they was still on the premises somewhere" (Twain 274).
The lesson of the experience is that you should watch where you store things because they might very well crawl away, as Huckleberry Finn found out the hard way.
Your story seems very interesting, and I agree with Brandon's lesson, because things do get crawl away if you just store it anywhere.
ReplyDeleteDo the critters crawling away symbolize something? Do they represent something further down the line in the story or foreshadow something?
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