Rescuing Jim
Huck and Tom conspire to free Jim from his prison, but they are saddened that Jim's escape would be too easy. They complain that Uncle Silas would give the prison key to anyone and that Jim is only chained to the leg of a bed. Why the disappointment? They, especially Tom, see honor in a difficult escape. Tom proposes to "invent all the difficulties".
"No; the way all the best authorities does , is to saw the bedleg in two, and leave it just so, and swallow the sawdust, so it can't be found... nothing to do but hitch your rope ladder to the battlements, shin down it , break your leg in the moat" (Twain 246).
Does difficulty make something more honorable? You make the call.
Huck and Tom conspire to free Jim from his prison, but they are saddened that Jim's escape would be too easy. They complain that Uncle Silas would give the prison key to anyone and that Jim is only chained to the leg of a bed. Why the disappointment? They, especially Tom, see honor in a difficult escape. Tom proposes to "invent all the difficulties".
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