These chapters introduce the relationship between Huck and Jim. Jim seems to believe heavily in superstition. Explain how superstition affects Jim, and how both Jim and Huck feel that certain events are a direct result of superstition.
One of Jim's superstition is that if someone touches a snake's skin they will get bad luck. Huck didn't believe him because while they were in the island he touched a snake's skin. After he does that he finds another snake and kills it and he wanted to put it where Jim was sleeping. When Huck puts the dead snake where Jim is sleeping and Jim gets scare and jumps but the snake's mate was there too and bites Jim on the heel. That is when Huck starts believing that it was bad luck touching snake's skin and believes Jim's superstitions. Now Jim and Huck are being careful to what they do. -Daniela Galindo
Jim is someone who belives superstitiions hold a very heavy role in life, for they bring the element of hope and fear by giving a rule that will dictate your luck. This can be seen in chaper 10, when jim and huck are disscusing on the topic, how if you touch a sankes skin you get bad luck. Huck didnt belive the for the money they found in the overcoat, at the house they passed that was hit by the flood, could be taken as a sign of good luck. Jim warns huck by saying" it's coming to him" so huck decides to play a prank on jim by getting a dead snake and putting it at his feet while he is sleeping. Yet the snakes mate came by and bit jim, giving the two of them a reason to belive in the superstition. That incodent caused them to belive that jim getting bitten by the snake was beacuse of huck touching the skin.
Jim believes heavily in superstition and Huck believes in a few. Jim and Huck are discuss how Jim says that it is bad luck to touch a snakeskin with your hands. Huck doesn't believe him because they found money in an overcoat they took from a house that was tilted on its side from the flood. Huck plays a prank on Jim and curls a dead snake up and puts it by Jim's feet while he is sleeping. The snake's mate comes and bites Jim. This gives the two reason to believe the superstition. They believe that Jim getting bitten by the snake was a result of Huck touching the snakeskin. The fact that Jim believes in superstition so much makes him very cautious of what he does.
Superstition that Jim and Huck share is that when you touch a snakes skin you end up having bad luck. Huck touches a snake on the island, after a while he sees another one and kills it and wraps it around Jim's leg. The dead snakes mate comes and bites Jim after screaming. This then convinces Huck that touching the snake can lead to bad luck. As they continue their journey a series of unfortunate events happen this could have been due to the fact that Huck had touched a snakes skin. Jim and Huck are big believers of superstition that has led them to go into dangerous events.
Superstition can effect people in many ways either in a positive or negative way. For example in The Adventures of Huck Finn, Jim and Huck both have their share of superstitions. Jim, however, has much more than Huck does. In Chapter 10 it mentions how Jim is trying to explain to Huck how touching snake skin with your bare hand is bad luck, and Huck begs to differ by explaining to him how they found money out of the blue. Later Hucks perception changes when the snake mate bite Jim after a prank attempt he tried to play on Jim. The result of this event keeps Jim and Huck's superstition high, and they are always keeping an eye out on what they do.
Jim is a fellow who believes in superstition an after a while hucks starts believing in superstition after the event that occure when huck doesnt believe catching some birds makes a person have bad luck. Jims father laid mighty sick once and some of them catched a bird his grandmother mentioned his father father would die an he eventually died.Meaning as the chapters continue bad luck start happening to Huck and Jim when Huck decides on touching a snake skin. Making Huck another believer of superstiton. -Elizabeth Rodriguez
Jim is a superstition believer, but huck on the other hand is not. When jim explained the story about how is father would die because he catched a bird, and his grandmother said that he will die. Then he died. Huck starting to believe from that moment on, because of the whol thing happened with the snake. Jim clearly stated that touching a snake skin with his hands will bring him bad luck. then they found the money in the jacket and huck thought that was it. that theres no bad luck, and jim said its coming. Then huck decided to play a prank then soon bad luck hit. whent the another snake came and bit jim, huck then believed that there is good and bad luck. -ariel schultz
Jims superstition is that if someone touches snake skin with there hands they will have bad luck. While they were in the island Huck touches snake skin on purpose. Later on Huck decides to play a prank on Jim due to his superstition. What Huck decides to do is get a dead snake and out it were Jim is sleeping. During the night the snakes mate bit him. With this Huck starts believing that bad luck will occurs while touching snake skin. Jim and Huck have high superstition leading them to be cautious on what they are doing.
Jim has strong beliefs in superstition, which makes him think twice on things he is going to do.At first, Huck did not believe in superstition until bad luck struck.One of the superstitions was if someone touches snake skin with their hands, they will have bad luck.Huck was playing a prank on Jim,so he curls a dead snake and puts it by Jim's feet, while he is sleeping . Later, a snake mate bit Jim and convinces Huck that the superstitions' Jim told him where real. - Yesenia Escobar
Superstitions affected Jim by developing a sense of paranoia and making him have a reason or sign why a certain situation occurred. The first sign that Jim spoke to Huck about was how Huck shouldn't catch birds because it brought death. Jim spoke about different signs that made Huck speculative about his reasoning and would often contradict him. Jim and Huck felt that certain events were based on superstition because of coincidence. For example, Jim told Huck not to talk about the dead man because it would fetch bad luck and the man might haunt them because he wasn't in a proper burial place. Huck felt like it was a reasonable superstition and stopped talking about it. When Jim would say not to do something because it brought bad luck and Huck disobeyed, then Huck would realize that Jim was right and soon started to believe more into superstitions.
Superstition is what controls Jim, it controls the way he thinks and what he does. For example, in chapter 10 Jim tells Huck that it was the "worst bad luck in the world" to touch a snake-skin with hands, indicating that superstition is the first thing that goes through his head before anything else which is affecting him mentally. To Jim, things happen for a reason, and Huck starts to believe that as well after what happened when the snake bit Jim. Now Huck is having the same mind-set of superstitions being "number one" as Jim does. And now they believe that certain events are happening for a reason due to the affects of superstition.
Superstition runs the life of Jim, its influences the way he acts and thinks. His mental aspect strongly believes that superstition affects the events to come. The mindset of Jim soon influences and affects the mind of Huck, due to Jim's worst and biggest superstition to touch a snake skin with your hands, resulting in bad luck. This belief is soon proven to be true to Huck after the snake came back to bite Jim. Soon superstition will be factor to Huck beginning to second guess himself before acting on things.
In these chapters, it is shown how Jim is a strong believer of superstition, while Huck is slightly doubtful about it. Superstition is conversed between Jim and Huck during chapter 10 where they talk about the different ways good luck and bad luck is given. Jim warns Huck about how touching a snake's skin is terrible bad luck, and Huck is doubtful and questionable about it. Huck ignores Jim's warning and decides to play a prank on Jim by placing a dead snake by Jim's sleeping area, which's mate later comes and bites Jim on the ankle. This event then convinces Huck to believe that Jim has some sort of knowledge of the way nature works which turns Huck a believer as well. Superstition controls Jim and Huck's actions and decisions throughout the chapters.
Huck didn't really believe in superstition as much as Jim did. While they were on the island, Huck touches snakeskin with his bare hand, not knowing it will give them bad luck. Huck decides to play a prank on Jim when he is asleep. He got a dead snake and puts it near Jim's feet. The snakes mate comes and bites Jim's foot. Afterwards, they both started to believe in superstition, and that if you touch snakeskin it will provide you with bad luck. In Chapter 10 it also stated that Huck wanted to know the story behind the dead man, but Jim doesn't want to tell him. Huck thinks that's bad luck too.
Jim is very superstition compare to Huck. Is very helpful to him because he thinks twice before doing things. Huck believe on superstition after the accident with the snake. He first touch a snake's skin then he finds another one and kill it. That was a sign of bad luck but Huck didn't realize. Until he tries to put it on to Jim but Jim got scare and jump. There was a snake mate and bite Jim in the heel. Then he realize that Jim was right about superstition.
Jim strongly believe in superstition, while Huck didn't really believe in it. A superstition Jim believes is if you touch a snake's skin with your bare with your bare hands you will get bad luck. Huck didn't really think about it much and decided to pull a prank on Jim. Jim was asleep and Huck grabs a dead snake and puts in next to Jim's feet. Later the snake's mate comes and bites Jim on the ankle. After this happening Huck started to believe on superstition just like Jim does.
Jim is someone who strongly believes in superstition compare to Huck. Jim believes that if you touch a snake's skin with your bare hands you will get bad luck. But Huck didn't believe it so he decided to pull a prank on Jim. When Jim was asleep Huck curls a dead snake and puts it by Jim's feet. Later, a snake bites Jim and maskes Huck realize that the superstition that Jim told him were real.
Jim life is run by superstition every single action he make is based on if it will bring good or bad luck. Huck's belief in superstition is not as strong as Jim's is. For example Huck wanted to play a prank on Jim so he found a snake and killed it. Putting it near Jim's bed well later he has forgotten about it and the snakes partner had coiled it self around it's dead mate. The snake ends up biting Jim and Huck then believes the superstition of bad luck coming when you touch a snake with your bare hands. After the incident Huck has a better understanding as to the fact that Jim really knows about superstition and that it would be wise to listen to what Jim has to say.
Superstition plays a major role in Jim's life, causing him to live a certain way. But it also causes him to believe and fear in irrational things. Yet both Huck and Jim believe that these superstitions are true due to a string of events that follow certain actions. This can include when Huck picked up the snake skin (causing Jim's event of getting bitten) and him joking about a dead Huck. In short superstition runs his life and it has some kind of actuality. -Carmen "Patty" Arreola
As i was introduced to this chapters i could conclude that Jim highly belives on superstitions. While Huck in the other hand believes that Jim's superstitions are an act of coincedence. Huck made a prank to Jim to make his point that theres no such thing as superstitions. The prank only made Huck realize that superstitions do exsist. And by that it also made him a highly believer on superstitions. Ailyn Flores
Huck’s superstitious beliefs seem to revolve around bad luck rather than good. He follows his superstitions as a sort of precaution against certain bad events. We see it as Huck’s desire to blame bad happenings on bad luck, whereas he thinks good things are natural or have been earned in some way. Since Huck doesn't trust in religion to explain life’s negative moments, he uses superstitions instead. Also From the very outset of the story, Huck reveals his superstitions because theyt have been ingrained in his mind through his upbringing and are a part of his surrounding culture.
Superstition affects Jim in different ways. It controls his thoughts and his actions. He believes that anything you do will have a consequence. After touching the snake skin with his hands, Jim tells Huck that he will have bad luck but after finding the money in the coat, Huck doesn't think Jim's superstition was all that accurate. Later on Huck decides to play a prank on Jim, so he kills a snake and puts it by Jim's feet, while he's sleeping but he forgot that when you leave a dead snake out its mate always come to curl beside it. The snake bit Jim and after all the commotion Huck is now convinced that the reason the whole incident happened was because of Jim's superstition about his bad luck.
Jim started believing in superstition ever since his father died because he cached a bird. From that point he has been very careful of what he is doing. Huck on the other hand is careless and thinks its ridiculous. But when Jim warned him about touching the snakes skin would only bring him bad luck, Huck finds money inside the coat he finds. Huck explains to Jim that its all in his head but Jim is convinced that the worse is yet to come. Later, Huck goes back to the house to find a snake, kills it and plans to prank Jim by laying it under his feet while hes sleeping. Huck didn't think this through and the dead snakes mate ended up biting Jim. Huck later understands that all of that happened because he touched the snakes skin and that Jim superstition was right. Julia Martinez
Even since chapter two Huck has known about Jim's superstition and always laughed about it and never believed it. But when it came to Huck and Jim being in the same island Jim's superstition influenced Huck more and more. In chapter ten for example, Jim warns Huck that it is bad luck to touch a snakes skin. Huck doesn't listen to him and wants to play a joke on Jim. When he puts the snake on Jim's leg and the mate bites Jim he then starts believing that maybe everything that Jim believes is true. That is when Huck's friendship with Jim starts influencing him and starts making him believe that maybe after all being superstitious would direct him to a good path.
Jim relies and believes heavily on superstitions. With these suprrsitions it has allowed Jim to over think many actions and events that had taken place throughout these chapters. For example, in chapters 10 Jim lectures Huck about good and bad luck when Jim catches Huck touching snake skin . Huck didn't believe him so he decide to play a prank on Jim and to leave the snake skin on him. But later the snakes mate had came and bitten Jim. After this incident Huck had believed in superstitions. This has placed a lesson on Huck. This has convey a sense on Huck to listen to Jim when it comes to unusual events that occur. These superstitions do affect both characters throughout these chapters.
Superstition itself is actually an important role based upon the book. It happens a few times throughout the book where Huck and Jim come across some bad and good luck. I think in the middle from the chapter's assigned to read gives an example of superstition. An example of superstition would be when Huck and Jim found eight dollars in an overcoat which implied for them to believe it's goodluck. When Huck came across a rattlesnake in search for something he ended up killing it and placing near Jim to lead to a bite attack in which gives reason for them to believe it was badluck. -Evelyn Simmons
I believe Jim's superstition led him to become a most interesting man of thought. For his own perception affects how their adventure goes on, and more things him and Huck learn on the way. His belief of superstition is a major role in the story, coming between karma and luck. After Huck and Jim meet on Jackson Island, Jim's beliefs began to take over Huck slowly. As they spent more time together, superstition rose with nearly everything Huck did. Jim's saying to Huck, "It's coming to him," directly results to our source of superstition. Therefore, the snake; when Jim warned Huck about the snake skin, Huck's arrogance went from a simple joke on Jim to an unexpected bite from the snake's mate. This led to Huck's believing of superstition that Jim had so told him about.
jim is an interesting character with his superstion about the snake skin (if anyone touches snake skin they get bad luck) but huck was kinda optomistic about superstion in the book so in the story huck puts a dead snake in where jim was sleeping and not to long an other snake bites him in the heel and now i could say that huck believes in superstion as well as jim ALEX ZAMORA
Leonard A. Lafoe Jim has a heavily superstitious outlook toward life. Almost anything that happens to him and Huck he has some sort of superstition to go along with it. For example, Jim saw two birds flying in the same way young chickens do when it is supposed to rain. Sure enough, it did. Huck seems to be in between believing Jim's superstitions and not. But after Jim said that if you touch a snake skin you are certain to be bitten by a snake, Huck decided to play a prank on him by placing a dead snake by Jim while he was sleeping. Another snake was attracted to the first and bit Jim. So now Huck may believe in Jim's superstitions after all.
Superstitions play a big role on Jim's life, Huck on the other hand, not a big fan. Although something causes Huck to not rule out superstitions fully. When Huck was in the island, he touched a snake and it brought back a memory when Jim said tat if you touched a snake's skin, you would have bad luck. Humored by this believe, Huck kills a snake farther along and later plants in on the foot of the bed where Jim is sleeping. The snake's mate comes along to Jim's bed and bits him in the foot, causing both, Huck and Jim, to believe that they are now being touched by bad luck. Huck now begins to think of Jim a bit different and believes him more than he did before.
Jim's strong belief in superstitions has had a big impact on his life. He is careful with certian things he does becase of karma and luck. Huck is not as superstitious as Jim is, however Huck now believes a little more after an experience he had. One of the superstitions Jim told, was if you touche snake skin with your hands, you will start to have bad luck. Huck tried to play a prank on Jim, so he found a snake and layed it near Jim when he was asleep. Later, a snake mate had bit Jim. After seeing this happen Huck started to believe what Jim had been saying to him. This also leads to him being more curious about the dead man and Jim's superstition beliefs.
Throughout the chapters 8-14, superstition takes place upon both Jim and Huck ; they both have their own point of view on the way that it works. In the novel, it states that Jim’s superstition about the touching of a snake is bad luck, but Huck doesn’t view it as that. Huck questions Jim of such bad luck because of the money that they find out of nowhere. Later, Huck questions his belief when the snakes mate bites Jim which leads him to believe that-that’s the bad luck from touching the snake in the first place.
Throughout these chapters, we are introduced to Jim when Huck runs into him in the forest. While Jim heavily believes in superstition, Huck is obviously having his doubts. Having touched a snake, Huck is told he will have bad luck yet nothing has happened. Jim is later bitten after Huck's prank backfires. This event can clearly be labeled as the direct consequence of superstition. -Alexandra Faith Yrigoyen
In these chapters its shows how jim is a very superstitious individual as to Huck who think superstition is a joke. When Huck unknowingly handles a snake-skin. Jim tellls him that by handling the snake- skin they will have bad luck. Huck thinks that what Jim told him is a lie and also that it is funny. Later on in the novel huck kills a snake and plants it at the end of where jim was sleeping.Jim is bit by the dead snakes friend.Huck trusts Jim that the bite was the result of a superstitious bad occurence. Huck then begins to believe Jim and all of his superstition . As the two of them spent more time together Hucks superstition grew more in his life. -David A. Gomez
In these chapters you see more of Jim's character, and how he interacts with Huck. You learn that Jim believes in superstition and in bad luck. Jim mentioned that touching snake skin is bad luck, Huck puts a snake by Jim's side while he's sleeping and the snake's mate decided to bite Jim. After that Huck believes he might have bad luck. I look forward on seeing these two characters collaborate with each other more.
In chapters 8-14, you find out that Jim has a lot of superstitious beliefs. Jim says that touching a snake will bring bad luck. Huck thinks differently and as a joke, puts a snake near Jim while he is sleeping. The snakes' mate comes and bites Jim. After this, Huck starts believing more in Jim's superstitious beliefs. - Allyson Sanchez
Jim has a superstitious look toward everything in life, he believes everything that happens is a sign. As for Huck, he thinks superstition is nothing but a joke. In chapter 10, Jim was telling Huck that if you touch a snake skin it brings bad luck. Huck, of course, took that as a joke. Huck ends up killing a snake and placing it at Jim's feet while he slept. As a result of that the snake's mate bites Jim at the heel. After that little incident, Huck began to believe in superstition as well. Jim being with Huck was the cause of superstition growing more in his life.
In these chapters you get to see Jims views and his way of life that everything that happens for a reason is like a sign and how that affects Huck. Jim is very superstitious and believes in karma and bad luck.On one of the chapters Huck touches a snake-skin and to Jim that is bad because he tells him that by doing that they where supposably going to have bad luck. Huck on the other hand takes it as a joke and puts the dead snake on Jim while he was sleeping and turns out the snakes mate comes and bites Jim. This leads to Huck starting to think of Jim a bit different and believes him more than he did before and of course Jim now is like " I told you so!" In my point of view.
Jim allows his superstition to be an important part of his life. He relies on what he's heard to get along daily, including predicting the weather. As Jim's and Huck's journey go on, Jim mentions that touching a snake's skin is bad luck. Huck brushes this off as he doesn't believe Jim because he had touched a snake and no bad luck came his way. Forgetting that a snakes mate will curl up with it when dead, Huck later curls up a dead snake by Jim's feet at night as a prank. The snake's mate eventually comes and bites Jim's foot, beginning the bad luck supposedly brought by touching a snake. As Huck begins to believe Jim after this, Jim explains that much worse luck is to come, resulting in Huck to become more of a believer of superstition.
Superstition greatly affects Jim, the reason solely being he was raised to believe in it. In Chapter 8, Jim retells a memory to Huck Finn about the relation between rain and birds. One moral of the story being that when young chickens fly in irregular patterns it is a sign that it will rain. Another moral was that catching birds would lead to one's death, as it had happened to Jim's father. Shortly after telling his story, it rained in the beginning of Chapter 9. As a direct result of Jim's superstition. Everything had occurred as Jim had predicted, making Huck Finn a believer. -Dayjah Harris
Jim is a superstitious man and he allows his superstition to revolve in his life. Jim also believes in karma and bad luck and shows to Huck that he believes in bad luck when Huck touches the snake skin. Huck takes what Jim says more like a joke and decides to put the dead snake on Jim while he was sleeping then the snake mate appears and bites Jim. After this happens Huck begins to believe more in what Jim was telling him about the bad luck, and Huck becomes more of a believer in superstitions. ~Mark Gonzales
Jim's belief in superstition molds his entire lifestyle. Huck's view on superstition is opposite than Jim's. He sees superstition as silly nonsense. Jim strongly believes that touching snake skin brings you bad luck. Huck claimed the snake skin myth false and killed a snake to lay beside Jim as a joke. After the mate of the dead snake came and bit Jim, Huckleberry changes his belief on the snake skin myth.
Jim explain to huck about superstition in which he strongly believe in. Huck doesn't believe anything Jim say untill the snake skin incident. Jim told huck that if you touch a snake skin you'll get "bad luck". Huck test that theroy by putting snake skin next to jim and the snake mate comes and bites jim leg. After wittnessing what had happen huck starts to believe in superstition but not as much as jim.
Jim and Huck run into each other in the forest. While Jim has a strong belief in superstition Huck thinks its silly. Jim tries to convince Huck into believing in superstition. Jim tells Huck that catching birds can lead to death, then tells him about a time when his father caught a bird, his grandmother said he would die and later he died. Hucj thinks Jim is over reacting and tries to prove to Jim that there is no such thing as superstition by putting a dead snake next to Jim as he slept. The next day Jim got bitten by the snakes mate. After the snake incident Huck starts believing more in superstition, and learned his lesson to never touch a snake with his hands. - Jasmine Vargas
Superstition can be good or bad towards someone. In this case Jim has a strong belief towards superstition. Superstition can keep him from doing or participating in certain things. While Huck is against it and really doesn't believe in it. Jim told Huck if he touched the snake's skin it was going to bring bad luck. Huck decides to pull a prank on Jim and puts a dead snake next to him while he's sleeping. The plan did not work the way Huck expected it to be . The snake's mate ended up bitting Jim. Huck later realized that maybe Jim was right, and he shouldn't be so curious and just listen. Because of this Huck started believing superstition is real.
Jim relies heavily on superstition. He believes that if a person touches a snake skin they'll get bad luck. At first, Huck doesn't pay him any attention. As a joke, Huck places a dead rattlesnake by Jim as he sleeps. The rattlesnake's mate bites Jim on the leg and Huck starts to believe in Jim's superstitions, since he handled the dead snake, he brought bad luck to Jim. -Cristina Rodriguez
Jim's life revolves around the superstition he believes. What of his superstitions is, if you touch the skin of a rattle snake, you will get bad luck. Huck ignores Jim and decides to play a prank on Jim, while he is sleeping Huck puts a dead snake next him. It didn't go as planned and the snakes mate but Jim on the leg. Huck then starts to believe in Jim's superstition, and they both begin to be more careful throughout the rest of the chapters. -Chris Powers
In this chapters were introduce to Jim believe of superstition, he believes that certain things can give you bad luck. Huck otherwise doesn't really believes in anything that Jim says since Jim warned him about touching the snakes skin and later Huck finds money inside a coat. Jim tells Huck to not be so secure because he is in no doubt that something is going to happen. Afterward, Huck goes back to the cavern and finds a rattlesnake, kills it and curls it up. He plans to make a prank on Jim by putting it in his foot while sleeping. Huck completely forgot about the snake until he saw Jim throwing himself and jumping after being bitten by the dead rattlesnake's mate. Later, Huck acknowledges that all that happen because he touch the snake skin and starts believing Jim superstitions. Which then will affect the actions of Huck. - Jennifer Arreola
Its seems that everyone has forgotten that the snake skin wasnt the only superstition Jim picked up on. If you dont remember Jim tells Huck that "them little birds had said it was going to rain" adding to the reason as to why they should put all their stuff in the cavern. Just a couples of paragraphs later from this sentence you see that Jim was spot on about his chat with the birds. This is a great example on how Jims supersitions affect what he does. Jim also tells Huck not to talk about the dead man that they found inside the house because it would "fetch abad luck". And of course, the snake skin superstition, this superstition to huck is directly commected to Jim getting bitten by the dead snakes mate completly convincing Huck that Jims is right about his superstitions.
Jim and Huck meet at the island. They work together for food and shelter. Along the chapters we get to know more about the character of Jim. Who is a man that believes highly in superstitions, and Huck does not share that same belief. Jim tells Huck about certain things not to do because it would cause bad luck. Huckleberry starts messing with things that Jim says and bad things start to happen. Huckleberry should start to be more wise about the things he does as it can cause trouble later on.
Jim's superstitious nature heavily affect Jim in several situations. For example, when Huck first runs into Jim on the island, Jim tells Huck Finn that they need to head to a cave because he saw baby birds flying which means a storm is heading their way, and although the superstition says it's for flying baby chicks, Jim "reckons" that it'll work the same way. And because it rained they believed it was because of what they Jim saw. In another situation, Jim warns Huck to never touch snake skin because it's horrible bad luck. Of course, Huck doesn't believe him, and tries to play a prank on Jim. Unfortunately, Jim gets bit by the snakes' mate, causing Huck to believe that it is all his fault for not being wary of his warning.
While Jim has a strong belief in superstition Huck thinks its just a joke. Jim states that catching birds can lead to death. He tells Huck about the time when his father caught a bird. Jims grandmother had told Jims' father that he would die if he caught a bird, he didn't believe in superstition just like Huck, so Jims' father caught a bird and had faced his death later on. Superstitions affected Jim, because now he'll have to be cautious about his actions. Huck thinks Jim is being naïve and tries to prove to him that there is no such thing as superstitions. Jim had told Huck that if you touch snake skin, that you will get bad luck. Of course, Huck didn't believe in superstition, but once he saw that Jim had gotten bit by the dead snakes mate, he started to realize that Jim was right about superstitions. - Vivian Gomez
Jim has lived his life truly believing that luck is brought by doing or not doing certain things in life. Superstition has altered Jim's life in ways that good or bad will become of it. While Huck at first paid no attention to Jim's belief of touching the snake with a bare hand is now reluctant to every touching a snake again. Huck acknowledged and faced the fact that because he touched the snake something bad came of it, which was Jim being bit. As a result Huck who is no longer a skeptic will share the same beliefs with Jim.
Jim was a superstitious man believing everything was controlled by pure superstitions. At first Huck did not pay attention to these beliefs of Jim but as he grew to to know him he also grew to believe in these things such as the snake incident. After that Huck goes from a skeptic to a superstitious person too.
Huck doesn't quite believe in superstitious as much as Jim does... yet as times is going by it seems as if Huck is believing more and more of the crazy thing Jim tells him to do. For example dropping a hairball to the floor and listening to what it would say is a very superstitious thing to believe in. Also Huck touching a snakes skin is a sign of bad luck according to Jim. So as Jim falls asleep Huck decides to pull a prank on Jim by putting a dead snake in Jim's feet; so then the snakes mate comes by and bits Jim. Therefore this gave Huck and Jim a reason to believe in superstition, and of course Jim and Huck both think this was due to Huck touching the snakes skin.
Jims big belief on superstition has grown on Huck. Every story Jim has to tell Huck believes him more and more. The first story about catching a bird and facing death and how it happened to Jims father is what made a bulb go off in Hucks head but wasnt so bright yet. That led to Huck wanting to test it, so he goes and wraps snakes skin around Jim and watches the superstition happen.The other superstition Jim said was about the dead man and how its wrong to think of him to think about it or else his sport will come to haunt them because of the nonpeaceful burial of the corpse. So superstition is defiantly growing on Huck.
Jim's belief in superstititions really doesnt have an affect on himself. However, since he happened to be right about touching dead snake skin and getting bad luck, i think this boosted his confidence in superstitions. With that being said, he was somewhat happy that he proved Huck wrong, and that Huck was a little surpised that his luck had indeed changed after tocuhing the dead snake skin. Now Huck pretty much has to believe in superstition.
Huck and Jim start off on different sides of superstition, Huck not believing in it and Jim believing very strongly in it. Huck, thinking he will prove Jim wrong touches the snake skin to prove it does not bring bad luck, only proves Jim correct. After he touches the snake bad things start to happen, leading Huck to believe Jim might know what he is talking about when it comes to superstition. Jim is not really affect by Huck's belief in superstition because he already believed in it as he has expressed in a number of stories. Huck now heeds Jim's warnings about superstition.
Jim was a strong believer of superstition, he always had some type of reasoning for the patterns of which something happened. For example birds flying in a irrelevant pattern is a sign of rain, the next thing they were looking for ways to keep their belongings from getting wet during the rain storm. Huck still wasn't convinced. But continuing their journey and coming across a dead snakes skin, and Jim getting bit by the snakes mate some what persuaded Huck in believing superstition, after the moral Jim told Huck about what bad luck you'd get touching a snakes dead skin. Further more down the journey their taking, Huck seems to have a little more belief in it, little by little as their traveling together.
Since Jim already believed in superstition, it didn't really have much affect on himself. But Huck began to follow Jim's stance on superstition as the story goes on. Jim, being a firm believer, told Huck about his superstitious stories. Huck didn't pay no minds to the stories or even Jim's belief. To test Jim's superstitious theories Huck decided to play a small prank on Jim while he was asleep. He wrapped dead snakes skin around Jim's feet. Soon enough the snakes mate came along and bit Jim. Huck felt sorry for not listening to the warnings Jim gave about bad luck. That was the turning point for Huck's belief in superstition and he started to follow Jim's talk about good and bad luck more and more.
Superstition plays a major role in Jim's life controlling what he does and what he thinks. But not in Huck's life until his luck had turned when he touched the snake skins. Huck killed a snake and then pulled a prank by putting the dead snake where Jim was sleeping. Unfortunately when Jim was bitten by the dead snake's mate. Huck realizes that happened because he touched the dead snake skin. That was when Huck started to get a better understanding of superstitions.
Jim was very dedicated to his beliefs in superstition. When Huck decided to pull a prank on Jim, by putting a dead snake besides him while he slept. He forgot that wherever you leave the dead snake the mate follows and curls around it. When the snakes mate comes to Jim and Huck at night the snake bites Jim on the heel. Jim immediately tells Huck to "..chop off the snake's head and throw it away, and then skin the body and roast a piece of it.." Huck does so and Jim eats it and ties around the rattles of the snakes around his wrists he said it would help cure him of the venom. Huck started to believe Jim about his superstition after that incident.
Jim believes heavily on superstitions because of his past. Even though he believes it is a big role in life for luck giving you hope or fear Huck doesn't believe him. Huck tries to somehow show Jim that it isn't real by playing a childish prank on him. Jim told him that touching snake skin is unlucky so Huck gets a dead snake and puts it near Jim's feet. The snakes mate came and bit Jim on his foot. After that Huck started to believe in superstitions after the incident.
Huck isn't really a strong believer in superstition, until Jim comes along, who is a strong believer. Jim tells Huck that touching a dead snakes skin is bad luck, but Huck being one who doesn't believe in superstitions, touches the snake skin anyway. Huck and Jim are in a small cave when Huck decides to pull a prank on him. Huck finds a rattlesnake, kills it, and puts it in Jim's blanket, when night comes Huck forgets all about it and when Jim was going to lay down he was bitten. Huck completely forgot that when a snake dies its mate curls around it, and protects it's dead mate. Huck discovers that maybe Jim's superstitious beliefs might actually be true, because of the snake skin, and he starts to believe in superstitions more.
Jim has a strong believe in superstitions, he tells him a hole bunch of stories about it. Huck doesn't believe him he just thinks their an old tale. When Huck kills the snake and tries to play a prank on Jim he ignores the snakes mate. After he wraps the snake around Jim's foot the snakes mate comes and bites Jim on the heel. Jim quickly tells Huck to kill the snake, cut his head of cut a piece of its skin and burn it. He also holds the snakes rattles on his wrists after all that Huck started to believe more in Jim's stories.
Jim has been introduced in some of the recent chapters when Huck finds Jim at the forest. Jim has a strong believe in superstition. Jim believes that if you touch a snake with your bare hands you will have bad luck. Huck was unsure of that so he played out a prank. Huck took a dead snake and placed it on Jim. Later a snake comes and bites Jims foot. Huck then starts believing on superstitions.
One of Jim's superstition is that if someone touches a snake's skin they will get bad luck. Huck didn't believe him. Continuing the journey Jim getting bit by the snakes mate some what persuaded Huck in believing superstition, after the moral Jim told Huck about what bad luck you'd get touching a snakes dead skin. Huck seems to have a little more belief in it, little by little as their traveling together.
Jim and Huck both show a great belief in superstition, Jim especially. Superstition leads Jim onto a lot of things, "Ef you's got hairy arms en a hairy breas', it's a sign that dat you's agwyne to be rich." This is a superstition that causes Jim to believe he's going to be rich. Huck was skeptical over Jim's superstitions at first, he questioned them; "You said it was the worst luck in the world to touch a snake-skin with my hands. Well, here's your bad luck! We've racked all this truck and eight dollars besides. -" Soon enough, Huck was given a reason to reconsider his doubts when Jim was bit by a snake, after Huck killed one and left it at camp. Huck had finally begun to believe the tall superstitions Jim spoke. -Lorenzo Lambert
Chapters 8-14 deals with a lot of superstitions. One superstition that Jim has is that if you touch a shed snake skin you will have bad luck. Prior to this statement, Jim states that Huck is already under "bad luck." Huck took this as a joke and decides to play a joke on Jim. That same night Huck places a dead snake next to Jim whilst he sleeps. Jim is later bitten by the partner of the dead snake.
Analytical Response: I think Jim has been through some bad times which is why he uses superstition, to cope with what has befallen him. Most of what has happened to Jim was bad timing, i.e. wrong place/wrong time. Jim maybe slightly paranoid, or just to cautious. This might be the reason Huck and Jim both get caught. Or in the end this might save both of them.
Jim is a strong believer in superstition and Huck is not. That changes when Huck attempts to prank Jim by putting touching the dead snake skin and putting the dead snake in Jim's blanket which leads up to Jim getting bitten by the snakes mate. This makes Huck believe that Jim was right about touching dead snake skin bringing you bad luck. But this is not the only even that made Huck believe Jim was right about superstition. Before this Jim had told Huck, "Them little birds had said it was going to rain." Jim ended up being right about what the birds had said. This convinces Huck about Jim being right about superstition.
Supersition affects both Jim and Huck. Jim is more affected by it because he has always truly believed in supersition, while Huck is introduced to it by Jim. It affects them by not allowing them to take or do certain things because they are afraid of bad luck or karma, or it also helps them by giving signs to future events. For example Jim states that Huck is not alowed to touch dead snake skin, and when Huck does he gains bad luck when Jim gets bitten. This leads Huck to believe that Jim was right and it was a direct result of supersition. Another example is when Jim says that the birds are a sign of rain, and it does rain. They both gain confermation of another direct result of supersition. -Dominique Lopez
Superstition is what takes over Jim, and it also takes over what he thinks and does. Like for example, in chapter 10 Jim tells Huck that you can get the worst thing in the world which is bad luck, this shows that the first thing that goes through Jims mind is supersition and that affects him mentally. Going through the chapters, Jim ends up getting bit by the snakes mate and then Huck ends up believing him. Now Huck and Jim are in the same mind set of superstition. Now they both believe that everthing is happening for a reason.
Jim believes in superstition while Huck really doesnt. Huck starts to believe after the inncident with the snake. Huck tried pulling a fast one on Jim. He put a dead snake next to Jim as he slept. The snake ended up biting Jim. This caused Huck to feel sorry for not listening to Jim when it came to bad luck. Huck then followed Jims talk about good and bad luck somewhat.
Jim's superstitions can both hold him back and get him ahead in life. He analyzes everything and notices all details of life. It can hold him back by not allowing him to take risks and not living in the moment. It can get him ahead in life by knowing the signs of bad luck so he knows what his next move should be and avoid the bad luck to focus on the good. Jims superstitions' start to rub off on Huck. Not just from the snake incident but after one night, Jim had a terrible nightmare and woke up lost. He was confused if his dream was a reality. While he was explaining his interpretations to Huck, Huck began to realize his superstitions made sense. He began to feel guilty about the snake prank and began to pay attention to these superstitions.
Superstition affects Jim in different ways. It controls his thoughts and his actions. He believes that anything you do will have a consequence. After touching the snake skin with his hands, Jim tells Huck that he will have bad luck but after finding the money in the coat, Huck doesn't think Jim's superstition was all that accurate. Later on Huck decides to play a prank on Jim, so he kills a snake and puts it by Jim's feet, while he's sleeping but he forgot that when you leave a dead snake out its mate always come to curl beside it. The snake bit Jim and after all the commotion Huck is now convinced that the reason the whole incident happened was because of Jim's superstition about his bad luck. -Alexus Renteria
Superstition is the basis of Jim's decisions/actions. Huck already knows that Jim's "religion" is all superstitions and their direct outcomes. On the island, Jim warns Huck to never touch snake skin because superstitions say it brings bad luck. Huck doesn't believe him and does it anyways. The direct outcome for this was Jim being bitten by the now widowed snake. Now Huck is more careful to obey and live cautiously to avoid these negative outcome superstitions.
Through chapters 8 and 14 Jim is displayed as a superstitious man, basically having superstitions as his religion and basing all his actions and reasoning off of them. The superstitions affect Jim by making him analyze and ponder through every decision he is about to make. He could either take his risks and learn from it or become afraid that "the bad luck will happen." Which keeps him asking, "what if?" One thing that does show up in the book is the prank of the snake skin and Jim getting bit by the alive mate. This event makes Huck believe that the superstitions that Jim believes in are actually real. -Princesleah Aguilera
Jim has really strong belief in superstition which makes a big impact on the way he lives his life. As Huck believes superstition is nonsense.Jim believes if you touch a snake's skin you'll get bad luck.Huck thinks Jim is over reacting and decides to prove him wrong by putting a dead snake beside Jim While he slept .Unfortunately the next day ,Jim got bitten by the snakes mate . When Huck witnesses this this makes him start believing more in superstition but not as much as Jim.
Jim shows a lot of superstition and basically expects many things to be bad luck. The first sign of superstition was when Huck was about to catch a bird and Jim said it would be bad luck because those birds mean that it will rain. Sure enough it rained and Huck started believing Jim a little more. The second time Jim shows heavy superstition is when Huck touched a snake skin. Time passed and Huck was starting not to believe Jim. One day Huck killed a rattlesnake and decided it would be funny to put it in Jim's bed. When Jim went to his bed the dead snake's mate was there and bit Jim. After that point Huck began believing what Jim would say, because Huck knew that was the bad luck he was waiting for. Jim, although very superstitious is very wise. His superstitions are mostly always correct and it does Huck good to listen to him. Jim's superstitions come very handy on their journeys.
Superstition plays a big role between these chapters from the beginning. It's show when they try to find Huck's body using cannon fire and bread superstitions. Then when Huck finds Jim, it's revealed Jim extremely believes in superstitions when he talks about how he lost money from putting his money on a cow, a starting bank, and giving it to the church. The most noticeable and defining example though, is when Jim tells Huck touching snake skin will give you the worst of luck. Huck not believing this, goes out and tries to make Jim not believe it either by putting a dead snake right next to him when he's asleep. Things go downhill though when Jim gets bit by the dead snake's mate, coming to the aid of it's dead mate. This leads to Huck believing the superstition was true that he must be more careful next time.
Jim is very superstitious and his superstitions influence Huck's actions throughout the chapters. After the snake incident, Jim and Huck's belief in superstitions strengthen. As the pair go downstream to avoid getting caught, they steal in order to meet their needs. Due to the their beliefs in superstitions, they reprimand some of there crimes and Huck sends help to the robbers that they left stranded hoping his goods deeds will bring him and Jim good fortune.
Jim and Huck are both superstitious about many things. Jim is very more superstitious compared to Huck. Jim told Huck that touching a snake skin was bad luck. But Huck didn't believe that it was bad luck since they were having good luck by finding some good loot on a boat in the river. But that later changes when Jim is bitten by the snakes mate in a prank gone wrong. From this point on Huck believes in the superstitious bad luck signs that Jim warns him about. -Aaron Pingo
Superstition affects Jim because he believes mostly everything that happens is a sign of bad luck. Jim lives his life being cautious and looking for signs in order to stay away from bad luck. There are several examples throughout these chapters that indicate to Jim and Huck that they are a direct result of superstition. One example is when Huck runs into Jim in chapter 8 and Jim sees some birds and predicts this is a sign it is going to rain. Later in chapter 9 when they are in the cave, this superstition comes true. Another example is when Jim tells Finn they must not count the things they are going to cook for dinner because it brings bad luck. Also Jim says "if a man owned a bee-hive, and that man died, the bees must be told about it before sun-up next morning, or else the bees would all weaken down and quit work and die."
Jim and Huck meet at the island where they worked together to build a shelter and look for food. Jim believes in superstitions. Jim warns Huck about things that can have a bad outcome and cause bad luck, on the other hand Huck does not believe in the things Jim does. For example Huck does not believe in touching the snake with bare hands will bring bad luck to them, but when the snake bit Jim Huck now realized it was bad luck.
Superstition affect Jim, because he really believe in it and it began to close in on the relationship he and Huck were beginning to develop. He knows how to read the signs, like when he saw the bids flying, he knew that they acted like that because of the weather. I think Jim gets by in life with his superstitious ways, like when Huck did not believe that bad luck would occur if he touch the skin of a snake. Huck did not believe in what Jim told him, so when Jim got bit by the snakes mate of the one Huck killed, he did not see the mate curled next to Jim, so Jim got bit and Huck began to trust him more. Jim, being superstitious, told Huck what to do in order for him to be better. If anything else, I think that after the incident in which Huck felt bad about Jim getting bit as a result of "bad luck", I think his trust in Jim began to grow as did their friendship.
Both Jim and Huck are superstitious. Throughout the chapters the ations Jim takes start influencing what Huck does. Jim beleiving in superstition makes a huge impact on his life. Jim told Huck that thouching a snake's skin was bad luck. Huck tried proving Jim wrong so he put a dead snake beside him while he was sleeping. The next day Huck witnessed Jim get bit by tge snakes mate. When Huck saw that he started to beleive in superstition, but never beleived as much as Jim.
Superstition plays a huge role in the way Jim lives his life. Any "little" thing, it seems can bring bad luck. Jim allows his superstitious beliefs control actions and decisions of his daily life. At first, Huck seems to think Jim's superstitions are notable coincidences, or even false. However once the superstition of touching a snake with your bare hand is put to the test and proven true, Huck seems to become influenced by superstition. This scenario allows Huck to better trust Jim and all of his beliefs. -Andrea Rodriguez
In chapters 8-14 there were a lot of superstitions that affected Jim. It is a major role in his life causing him to live a certain way. Jim has lived his life believing that luck is shown by what you do and what you don’t do. Huck on the other hand is skeptical and believes that it’s a coincidence. Huck at first paid no attention to what Jim went by. As Huck touches the snake and realizes that Jim was correct he reconsiders his previous thoughts about superstitions. Huck acknowledges and faces the truth of touching the snake resulted in something bad. To conclude Huck no longer was dubious about what Jim lived by. Huck accepted Jim's beliefs and will share common beliefs. - Savannah Ortivez
Superstition can affect the way people see things or feel about certain things. For example Jim believe that touching snake skin bring you bad luck, jim believes more in superstition, however Huck still believes but not as much. Huck touches a snake on the isalnd which cause jim to believe that Huck is going to recive bad luck. Jim tries to explain to Huck about how touching snake skin can bring you bad luck, but huck doesnt agree with him since they found money out of nowhere. Superstition has lead them to dangerous things.
Superstition definitely plays a big role in Jim's life and has started to rub off on Huck. I feel that at the beginning of the book when Huck meets Jim I don't think that Huck pays to much attention to Jim's superstitious beliefs but when Jim gets bitten by a snake. Jim tells Huck to do different superstitious rituals. When Jim gets better a few days later, Huck is amazed. So I believe that this is a major turning point in the book for Jim and Huck's superstitious beliefs. ~Joshua Ascencio
Jim plays a role in Huck's life, unfortunately it brings a theory of superstition. According to Jim, touching snake skin is a reference of bad luck. Huck seizes to believe in this speculation. A coincidental situation involving pulling a prank on Jim by putting a dead snake on him, it results in a stroke of bad luck including a snake biting Jim. After this incident Huck's mind gets the best of him and he starts believing in this strange matter. It is sure to start future problems and is undoubting sure to effect him negatively.
The superstition that Jim and Huck share is that when you touch a snakes skin you with your bear hands you end up having badluck. However Jim has much more than Huck does. When the snake bites Jim it leads him to badluck and he believes all the bad things that are happening to him is because of that. The result of this event leads to Huck and Jim to believe in superstition more and begin to take precaution in what they do. -Fernie Dominguez
Superstition, if you choose to believe in it, can have a positive or a negative effect on ones beliefs. In this case, Jim is a prime example of such a person. Jim deters from doing anything that would bring him bad luck, therefore, superstition dictates his life and the decisions he makes on a daily basis. For example Jim believes that touching a snake skin would give you bad luck, this superstition is only more credible for Jim after Huck played a prank on him and he was bitten by another snake. Huck starts believing in good superstitions after finding money in a jacket. -Angel Franco
Superstition affects Jim by making him believe that everything that happens is a sign. For example in chapter 10 Jim tells Huck that by touching a snake skin you will have bad luck. But Huck believes superstition is just a joke, so he decides to prank Jim by killing a snake and placing the snake skin on Jim's feet while he sleeps. This results in Jim getting bit by a snake and changing Huck's mind about superstition.
Because superstition consumes Jim's life, he often finds himself living in fear. For example, he belevies that by holding snake skin, bad luck would come upon him and thus causing him to react in a manner which seems quite unusual. After joining up with Huck in his adventure, they begin to spend lots of time with one another. Jim, unintentionaly becomes a great influnece in Hucks life. For instance when birds where flying above them a yard apart from eachother, Jim stated that it was a sign that a storm was brewing. Later that night a big storm appeared which was a direct result of Jims supertitons. Huck, at this point has begun to believe in Jims superstitions. I believe that within the next few chapters Huck will benefit from these superstitions he has been taught when it comes to surviving. -Desirae Parra
Jim's life pretty much revolves around the things he believes in, these "superstitions", it consumes him you could say. one superstition he believes in is, if you touch the skin of a rattle snake with bare hands, you gain bad luck. Huck dismisses Jim's statement and decides to pull a funny joke on Jim whlie he is asleep and puts a dead snake next him, it ends up going wrong and the snakes partner bites Jim's leg. Huck then starts to believe in Jim's superstitions, and they both begin to be more careful throughout the following chapters. -Jordan Ocampo
Superstition can make a huge impact in a persons life. In this case the person is Jim, who also drags Huck in his believes. Although, the effects might be good on the other hand they can also be viewed as bad. Jims believes that in seeing birds fly means there's a storm on its way. This was an example of a good superstition, because of this as soon as they found shelter it gave Jim and Huck a reason to stay. So this superstition prepared them for what was on it way. - Eurydice Siqueiros
Jim believes in a superstition in which a person touches a snake, they happen to have bad luck but Huck on the other hand does not agree with Jim's superstition. After the prank Huck pulled on Jim involving touching a snake, Huck noticed the outcome and slowly started believing in superstitions like Jim and came to think that everything happening was for a reason due to "superstitions".
Superstition is a big part of this chapters it shows this in the very beginning when they are trying to find Huck's body with cannon and the bread floating down the river. Huck doesn't really believe in all the superstition at the beginning but when Jim comes along he kinda changes his mind. Jim suppression is effects everything he does he questions everything he does and believes if u do this this will happen for example the snake skin, when Huck touched it Jim had stated it was the worst bad luck in the world to touch a snakes skin. Huck didn't believe him so he had killed a snake and curled it up into the foot of Jim's blanket and by night Huck had forgotten about it as Jim went to the blanket the snakes mate bit him in his heel.So as this happened Huck started to believe him because jim said where ever you Leave a snake the mate always comes and curls up around it and that is exactly what happened. So at this point Huck is already starting to believe in all the superstition. This will help Huck along the way so he will not do dumb things but probably hurt him as well as he will began to question everything as Jim does, always asking What if before everything.
When Huck befriends Jim on the island, he notices how heavily Jim believes in superstition. Jim comments that it is going to rain based on the fact that he saw young birds come flying a yard or two at a time, and sure enough it does. Huck insists on catching the birds and Jim wards him off saying that his father died that way. All of this seems like rubbish to Huck as the reader can obviously tell when Huck mentions how touching a snakeskin is bad luck and how they got just the opposite by finding valuables. Huck decides to mock Jim by placing a dead snake near him while he slept. Huck is baffled when the bad luck does indeed come true when the snake’s mate bites Jim. Huck now believes in the superstitions that Jim mentions and is now aware that there is “consequences” when you go against the superstition.
Jim believes in superstition, while Huck on the other hand thinks its a joke. In chapter 10 Jim told Huck that if he touches a snake, he would get bad luck. Huck didn't take him seriously and he tried to play a prank on Jim. Huck tried to kill a snake and place it on Jim's feet while he was sleeping but in the process, He was bitten by the snake. This changed Huck's mind about believing in superstition.
Superstitions are what mainly make up Jim's life. His worries rub off on Huck causing them both to believe that life revolves around these superstitions. Jim had told Huck about the snake skin superstition and because Huck had touched that skin they had come by, he truly sowed what he reaped. The snake Huck had found and killed got its vengeance through the mate. Due to Huck's prank by leaving the dead snake in Jim's quarters, the mate ended up biting Jim in the heel. Although Huck wasn't bitten, we can obviously see that Huck became a firm believer of the concept of superstition. Jim wanted to make sure he followed all the rules when it came to superstition. This fear dictates Jim's life making him very cautious and alert as to what he does to ensure the well-being of his life. Symbolism definitely represented what these fears were all about. So as a result, both Jim and Huck made sure to "never trust the snake in the tree."
Jim and Huck have very different views on superstition, Jim on one hand believes in it very strongly Huck on the other does not. Jim told Huck different stories about superstition but that didnt change anything. Jim's belief was that if you touch a snake's skin bad luck comes along , because of this Huck tried proving him wrong. While Jim was sleeping Huck wrapped a dead snake around his feet, this caused Jim to get bitten by the snake's mate. Huck then starts to believe in Jim's superstitions and begins to understand him. -Natalia Escobedo
Jim had a deep belief in superstition and bad luck while Huck had a different idea of the matter. Jim believed that if you were to touch a snake's skin it was to bring you bad luck, but as an attempt of proof Huck places a dead snake on Jim's bed. There ends up being another snake and it bites Jim in the heel. Soon after the event Huck agrees with Jim's ideas of superstition. -Cristian Nunez
Superstition takes a big role in this novel. In this case Jim`s charactes strongly bealives in superstitions. On the other hand Huck is careless of superstitions himself. Jim warns Huck that touching a snakes skin with his bear hand will bring him bad luck. However Huck decides to pull a prank on Jim. Huck kills a snake and places it underneath Jim`s feet. What Huck didnt know was that when a snake gets killed their mate comes and wraps themselves around it. Jim got bite by the snake and Huck learned not to under estimate superstitions. This experience will help them in the future actions they are going to take throught the novel.
Many people have different ways of seeing superstition , either as a good thing or a bad thing. People may not believe in them at all . For example in The Adventures of Huck Finn, Jim and Huck both have their own superstitions that they believe in. Jim is very much into the subject of superstition . In Chapter 10 says how Jim tells Huck about how touching a snake with his bare hands is bad luck, and Huck doesn't believe him. Later Huck changes his mind about it , when the snakes mate bites Jim after Huck doesn't listen . The result of this event keeps Jim and Huck's superstition high, and start paying more close attention to what they do . -Fernanda Murillo
Jim and Huck are both superstition, but Jim is much more superstition than Huck. For example, Jim believes that if you touch the skin of a rattlesnake with your bare hands then you will have bad luck. Huck didn't really think anything of it. He tried to prank Jim by putting a dead snake next to him while he sleeps. However, the prank backfires when the snake's mate comes and bites Jim's leg. Huck starts to think that the superstitions might be true and he begins to take it more seriously and becomes more caution of his surroundings. -Anthony Lopez
Jim believes heavily in superstition and Huck doesn't. One of Jim's superstition is that if someone touches a snake's skin they will get bad luck. Huck plays a prank on Jim and curls a dead snake up and puts it by Jim's feet while he is sleeping. Huck's prank doesn't work as he wanted. This makes him believe a little more in superstition. That's why Huck is always very careful in all the things that he does.
Jim's superstition can have a great effect on both him and huck. Such as when Jim told huck that it is bad luck to touch snake skin. Huck not believing Jim decides to play a prank. Huck put a dead snake at Jim's feet while he was sleeping. But the prank took a wrong turn when the snake bite Jim's heel. This caused huck to become more cautious and paranoid with what he does. ~Jeanette Martinez
Superstition affects Jim's life tremendously in a positive and negative way. A positive result of Jim's superstition is more towards the act of being cautious and heedful of his actions. On the other hand, the negative consequence outcomed to his obsession of a paranoid control. He is mentally controlled because he is afraid of his surroundings, he believes that his actions can bring good or bad luck. The event that mostly affected Jim is when his dad got ill and died after he catched a bird.(which brought bad luck to him)(I also believe this is the reason why he takes his superstition seriously). In the beginning Huck did not give into Jim's superstitions because of the "good luck" he had when he found $8 dollars in an overcoat. The event that opened his mind is when he tried to pull a prank on Jim by killing a snake,and laying it in in his feet while he slept.(touching a snake is very bad luck). When Jim woke up he got bit by the dead snakes mate. After this "bad luck" coincidence I think it made both Jim and Huck think twice about what they do.
Jim and Huck discuss superstitions in which Jim is well versed and Jim's failed investments, most of which have been scams. Jim is not too disappointed by his failures, since he still has his hairy arms and chest, which according to his superstitions, are a sign of future wealth. Huck puts a dead rattlesnake near Jim's sleeping place, and its mate comes and bites Jim. Jim's leg swells but gets better after several days this makes Huck believe more in superstitions.
In chapters 8-14 we are introduced to many of Jim's superstitions. One of them being that you shouldn't touch a snake with your bare hands. Huck not really believing it finds a rattlesnake in the cave and kills it leaving the snake skin by Jim's blanket. But when nightfall comes and they go back to the cave Jim lies down and finds the mate their; it bites Jim. Therefore making Huck believe in superstitions more since it brought him bad luck already. "I made up my mind I wouldn't ever take a-holt of a snake-skin again with my hands, now that I see what had come of it." he says.
Huckleberry & Jim both conduct their lives very superstitiously. "...it looked to me like all kinds of signs was bad luck, and so I asked him if there weren't any good signs." Huckleberry begins to feel overwhelmed by all the superstitious precautions Jim has warned him to take. "I made up my mind I wouldn't ever take aholt of a snakeskin again...Jim said he reckoned I would believe him next time." Huck is convinced Jim was bitten by a snake, because of the bad luck he brought upon them and swears to be more cautious. Any misfortune the boys experience, they feel, is tied to any superstitious missteps.
In these chapters, Jim puts the ideas of superstition in Huck's head. Both him and Jim start to live their life to certain guidelines, trying to control the outcome of every situation the encounter. In other words, he becomes a very superstitious person. Huck at first didn't pay too much attention to Jim's superstitions, but after Jim is bitten by a snake, and after his father dies from holding a bird, Huck begins to believe. This makes him start to go about very cautiously, which is somewhat good, but it also makes him very paranoid.
Both Jim and Huck believe in superstition but in their own ways. When Jim explained the story about how is father would die because he cached a bird, and his grandmother said that he will die. Then he died. Huck is starting to believe from that moment on, because of the whole thing that happened with the snake. Jim stated that touching a snake skin with his hands will bring him bad luck. Then they found the money in the jacket and Huck thought that's it, there's no bad luck, and Jim said bad luck will come . Then Huck decided to play a prank and bad luck striked. When the other snake came and bit Jim, Huck then believed that there is good and bad luck, so it was either or.
Jim, an escaped slave and Huckleberry Finn’s relationship is growing. Both have different beliefs, but are alike in many ways. Jim, is highly superstitious, and Huck naïve. In Chapter 10, Huck finds ten dollars and believes that luck is on his side, however this would soon change. Jim tells Huck that touching the skin of a snake is bad luck, so when Huck finds a snake he kills it and decides to play a prank on Jim. He placed the snake on Jims blanket and the mate of this snake is there and bites Jim. This changed the mind of Huck who may believe a little more in Jim’s superstitious beliefs. This relationship is growing stronger and trust is becoming more evident.
jim strongly belives in superstition, he belives that if you touch a sankes skin you get bad luck.Huck doesn't believe him because they found money in an overcoat, they took from a house that was tilted on its side from the flood. huck decided to play a little prank on jim. when he saw that the snake bite jim he started belicing now in superstition.
Jim and Huck, Although they might seem like they are very different from each other. They are alike in some ways. One example that has happened between them is the snake prank gone wrong that huck did to jim. it changed Hucks belief into being more superstitious. some people just learn the hard way in this case it was jim that suffered for a lesson to be learned by huck.
Jim is very superstitious but Huck takes Jim's warnings lightly and begins to interfere and effect them. In chapter 10, Jim tells Huck it is bad luck to touch the skin of a snake so he decides to play a trick on Jim by killing a snake and putting it by Jim but in coincidence the snakes mate comes by and bites Jim on the heel. Ever since that incident both believe in superstition and bad luck.
Jim believes in superstitions,Huck didn't really believe in that stuff. A superstition Jim believes is if you touch a snake's skin with your bare hands you will get bad luck. Huck didn't really think and decided to pull a joke on Jim. Jim was asleep and Huck grabs a dead snake and puts it next to Jim's foot. Later the snake's mate comes and bites Jim on the ankle. After that happening Huck started to believe the superstition just like Jim.
Jim believes in superstitions.Huck takes Jim's warnings lightly and begins to interfere and effect them. Although they might seem like they are very different from each other, they are alike in some ways.Jim believes that touching a snake skin would give you bad luck,Huck noticed the outcome and slowly started believing in superstitions. That's why Huck is always very careful in all the things that he does. - Steve Herrera
it is shown how Jim is a strong believer of superstition, while Huck is slightly doubtful about it. Superstition is what controls Jim, it controls the way he thinks and what he does. He believes that anything you do will have a consequence. However once the superstition of touching a snake with your bare hand is put to the test and proven true, Huck seems to become influenced by superstition. This scenario allows Huck to better trust Jim and all of his beliefs -Jesus Gutierrez
Superstition is a custom of strong belief, as of now we know that Jim is a very strong believer in superstition while Huck is not. Jim uses his belief in superstition in his everyday life thinking everything he does will have a positive or a negative affect on him in some way. Huck thinks that the whole superstition thing is fake, but when he touches the snake and things start going bad he believes Jim more and trusts him.
Superstition is all a belief that someone has. in this case Jim believes in a lot of superstitious stuff. He tries to convince Huck about all these things but Huck just doesn't believe in any of it. One of these superstitious things that Jim believed had to do with touching a snake with your bare hand. Huck does this and all sorts of bad things start to happen to him. Huck then starts to believe Jim.
Counting the things you are going to cook for dinner is just a small portion of the superstitions that Jim believes in. On the other hand, Huck doesn't believe in any sort of superstition. He shows this when he decides to play a trick on Jim. Huck found a rattlesnake in the ridge, which was really bad luck to Jim. Huck makes sure he kills the rattlesnake and puts it at the foot of Jim's blanket. Forgetting about the snake, its mate bites Jim on the heel. Huck soon becomes persuaded by Jim's superstitions.
Jim and huck in this chapter really bond through superstition in this chapter if you will, the reason i say that huck plays with the fact that jim was serious when he told huck not to touch the snake wth his bare hands or he will get bad luck and the snake will eventually bite you.Huck decides to "prove" to jim in a prank that there is no bad luck so he kills the snake and puts it by jim's bed. another snake comes and bites jim's heel:therefore Huck now believes in Jim's superstition.
Jim believes in superstition and after hanging out with him for a while, Huck starts believing in that too after what happened with the birds. Jim's superstition is that if you touch a snakes skin with your bear hands, you'll have bad luck. Huck was having doubts because bad luck haden't struck yet until he played a prank on Jim and the snake bit him. After that, Huck had a stronger belief towards superstition.
Jim seems to believe heavily in superstitions. His superstitions is heavy on his life. One of his superstitions is with a snake skin. When Huck found out about his superstition about the snake skin he thought it would be a "prank" to scare Jim with a snake skin. Huck finds a snake and kills the snake for the "prank". When Jim falls asleep, Huck puts the dead snake next to Jim. When Jim saw the snake he immediately stood up, but then came the snakes mate. The snake mate became angry obviously, then attacked Jim on his heel. -Bobbi Cordle
In previous chapter we figure out Jim believes in superstition. In these chapters we get introduce in Jims believes. Huck doesn't really believe in that, but he gets convinced. Jim believes touching a snakes skin brings you bad luck. Huck knew that wasn't true, since he had touched a snake before, and decides to prank Jim. Huck puts a dead snake on Jims bed, later that night Jim gets bitten on the heel by the snakes mate. Huck then gets convinced on Jims believes. -Genesis Ramirez
In chapters 8-14 we find out that Jim believes in superstition. As we get introduced to Jims crazy beliefs (in which Huck doesn't believe) we realize that Huck is open minded to start believing in the things that Jim has believed in all his life. One of Jims big superstitions was that if you ever touched a snakes skin it will bring you bad luck (now that Huck did not believe since he had touched a snakes skin before), Huck decides to pull a prank on him and puts a dead snake on Jims bed... Later in that night Jim gets bitten in the heel by the dead snakes mate, Huck then gets convinced that he better start believing in Jims superstitions.
Jim is a very superstitious person, but Huck on the other hand is one who doesn't believe in such things. When Jim explains to Huck how touching snake skin with your bare hand will bring you bad luck Huck is very skeptical and decides to play a "prank" on Jim. Huck puts a dead snake next to Jim on his bed and when Jim wakes up he quickly stands up and gets bitten by the snakes mate. It's not until this incident occurs that Huck starts to believe in Jim's superstitions. -Rebeka Servin
Throughout their journey Jim and Bucks relationship grows and they are closer than before. Not only because of the new circumstances they're living in but also because all they have is each other. Jim is quite superstitious and believes kn many stories he has read and heard about in the past for example that touching a snake skin can lead to bad luck. Huck on the other hand thinks more realistic. The incident with the snake skin however did make Huck believe in superstition because he got cursed with bad luck after touching the snake skin and just mightactually start listening to Jims superstition stories. -Dominique Briddell
In my point of view, Huck acts like a child, and Jim basically suffers from Huck's actions. Superstition for Jim means somewhat cause and an effect to that cause. For example, Huck puts a dead snake to Jim as a joke but as a cause here comes the snakes mate to bite Jim. Another example could be when Huck and Jim spot a house floating down a river with a dead man in it. Clearly, it was Huck's father, but Jim refuses to let Huck see that. What could this mean? Bad luck? This is Jim and Huck being reminded of their old place and how they are not so far away from where bad things happen. They are aware of this.
Jim is very superstitious and as you read along. Huck isn't really into the whole substitution thing. Huck and jim are very different characters but once huck touched the snake skin and the mate of the snake bit jim I believe in hucks eyes superstition made a lot of sence only because he didn't know any better -Brieanna Gordon
Jim believes heavily in superstitions while huck didn't. He didn't believe until jim told him about the snake superstition. He decided to get a dead snake and put it by his bed then later he gets bitten. Making huck start believing in bad luck and such.
Marianna portillo Jims life is all about superstition and every move he makes is based on it sometimes bringing him good luck and some times bad luck. I the other hand huck’s beliefs on superstition are not as strong as jim’s. when huck wanted to play a joke on jim he killed a snake . later he put the snake on jims bed but he forgot about it. The snake ends up bitting jim. After that incident huck believes in supperstition. At the end huck listens more to jim’s thought of superstition.
Jim had been affected previously and made him believe in superstition because his father had died when he had caught a dead bird. He believed that such things can cause bad luck. Huck didn't believe on that nonsense since he thought he had luck on his side for having found money. Everything turns around when Huck decides to prank Jim, by killing a snake, and place it on him while he was asleep, as Jim believed that touching snake skin is also bad luck. Jim had woken up and was bit by the dead snakes's mate and that changed Huck's thoughts and considered Jim's belief on superstition.
Superstition can affect people in many ways either in a positive or negative way. Huck sees a snake on the island and he killed it wraps it around Jim. After the snake bit Jim, Huck starts to believe that bad luck will occur after touching the snake skin. They start believing that certain events happen for a reason due to the superstition. Soon superstition will be a factor and Huck stars to second guess his actions.
Jim somewhat pushes superstition on Huck. Huck believing he has the best of luck, does not acknowledge superstition as much as Jim does. Until Huck decides to pull a simple prank on Jim. Huck kills a snake and places it on the fast asleep Jim. Jim wakes to a bite and soon after Huck begins to believe in superstition.
Jim and Huck have their own point of view of superstition, but as their journey continues, Huck starts to believe in superstition in Jim's point of perspective. - Christian Ordonez
Jim's overwhelming beliefs in superstitions, causes his life to be carefully planned out to avoid unnecessary bad luck. For instance, if a man owns a beehive and that man dies, if the bees did not get informed before sunset, they would quit work and die. Huck takes advantage of Jim's strict belief in superstition he decides to play a seemingly harmless prank. He finds a rattle snake while gathering tobacco and curls it on Jim's blanket. Forgetting that it was there and that a snake will come and curl around its dead mate, Jim gets bitten on his heal. After the experience Huck starts to take Jim's beliefs seriously. -Patrick McCoy
Jim beliefs too much in superstitions. In Chapter 10 Jim tries to explain to Huck that if he touches a snake with his hand is bad luck. Huck plays a prank. Jim gets bitten by a snake Huck found.Thanks to what happen Huck considers more what Jim told him about not touching snakes. Jim and Huck's superstition are high.Now both of them take superstitions seriously and they are careful with everything they do.
Jim heavily believes in superstition since his father had died after catching a dead bird. While Jim explains to Huck it is bad luck to touch a snake with his had, Huck doesn't seem to think much of it. So Huck basically being Huck decides play a prank on jim by killing a snake and placing it on his bed. While this joke was meant to be harmless fun the snake mate comes into Jims bed and bites him on the heel. After this prank gone wrong Huck actually decides to take Jims superstitious beliefs seriously.
Huck doesnt believe in it yet fin does.Fin believes that if Huck touches a snake with his hand he will have bad luck.Huck uses that to his advantage to pull kind of a prank on fin since he knows that fin believes in it a lot he wanted to prove him wrong he kills a snake and puts in fins bed night a snake ends up biting fin and so huck end up wondering if fin was actually right
There are many people in the world who have superstitious beliefs. Superstitions will either help or hurt you in your life. A positive affect is making you more aware of the, so you pay closer attention to the little things that others will overlook, but the negative affect is never good. For example, since Huck didn't really believe in superstitions, he decided to disregard Jim's bad luck advice about touching a snake with your bare hands. Huck's prank went bad when the snake's mate bites Jim. Since that moment Huck realized he should have listened to Jim and having superstitious beliefs are not as bad as they may seem. So he is now more aware with everything that he does.
As its shown in these chapters, Jim really believes in superstition. He believes that if you touch the skin of a rattle snake you will get bad luck. Huck does try to to play a prank on Jim, because of him ignorance but it does not go as planned. In the beginning Huck does not believe in superstition, but throughout the chapters he starts listening to Jim superstition beliefs.
Jim is a big superstition believer, and at first, Huck didn't believe what Jim would tell him. For example, Jim told Huck that if he touched a rattlesnakes' skin with his bare hands he would get bad luck. However, Huck does not listen and he kills the snake and plays a prank on Jim. He put the dead snake and put it on the foot of Jim's blanket and to their surprise, the dead snakes' mate was there and bit Jim on the heel. Ever since that happened, Huck realizes that Jim's superstition was right and he is now careful with everything he does.
Already knowing that Jim believes in superstition, Huck sees that as a joke but somehow it intrigues him a bit. Jim had told him about touching a snakes skin and instantly you get bad luck, later then Huck kills a snake while Jim was sleeping .So now Jim doesn't seem that much of an unimportant person to Huck.
In these chapters superstition plays a big role in Jim's life which is mainly the reason he acts the way he is. on the other hand superstition doesn't not play much of a role at all in Huck's life until him he begins to believe some. Jim tells Huck that it is bad for him to touch a snake with his hands, but Huck not believing Jim tries to pull a prank on Jim. Jim eds up getting bitten by a snake which cause Huck to start believing Jim.
Huck and Jim speak of superstition throughout there time on the island. I believe that all the superstiton affects Jim more than Huck, because Huck just goes along with these superstitions because the first one came to be true. For example the first one brought up was the one of the birds bringing rain in chapter 8 page 47 the book states. " Some young birds come along, flying a yard or two at a time and lighting. Jim said it was a sign it was going to rain." Later on in chapter IX page 51 the book states. " Pretty soon it darkened up and begun to thunder and lighten; so the birds was right about it. Directly it begun to rain, and it rained like all fury, too, and I never see the wind blow so." Ever since then Huck began to believe most the superstition Jim told him. Superstition affects Jim life because he makes some of his decesions off of superstition. For example the one about the birds bringing rain. If jim didn't know about that superstition Jim probably would of lost all of there traps and everything on the canoe would of gotten wet. Therefore without the superstition of the birds they wouldn't have camped in the cavern and saved all of there stuff.
Jim, has this thory, that if you touch a snake's skin you'll get bad luck. Huck didn't belive Jim's superstition. So he goes ahead and touches a snake's skin to prove he won't get bad luck. After he touches the snake, he decides to pull a prank on Jim while he sleeps. He kills a snake, and puts it next to Jim, so he'll see it when he awakens. While Huck does that, the snake's mate digs his fangs into Huck's ankle, and makes him belive what Jim had said.
Jim has a superstitious look he believes everything that happens has a reason for it. Unlike Huck, he doesnt belive in superstition. Jim told Huck that if he feet while he was asleep. Then the snake' bites Jim in the heel. After that, Huck began to believe in superstition tool. Jim influenced Huck to belive in superstition. -Hillary Ramirez
Superstition affects jim's thoughts a lot he tells Huck if he touches a snakes skin he'll have bad luck. Huck in the other hand doesn't believe in those stuff so he decides to make a joke out of it by killing a snake and putting the dead snake in the foot of jim's bed but the snakes mate cones and bites Huck in revenge from then on it changes Jim's view on superstition-Geraldine Morales
Huck and Jim both have superstitious beliefs. Jim has this belief about snakes skin. He says if you were to touch snake skin with your hands you will get bad luck but Jim wasn't really thinking about bad luck since he found money. Huck thought it would be a good idea to pull a prank on his friend by killing a snake and putting it by Jim when he is asleep, which he did do. The funny idea went wrong when the mate of the snake that Huck killed bit Jim. Therefore Huck starts to think maybe Jim's superstition is actually true. Ashley Maiden
Jim heavily believes heavily on superstitions, while Huck doesn't believe in superstitions at all that is until he sees a snake skin and decides to touch it diregarding the fact that Jim clearly warned him that if he ever touched a snakes' skin it would be bad luck. Huck decided that after touching a snakes skin,to pull a prank on Jim by killing a snake and placing it where Jim was sleeping,later on they decided to go to sleep as soon as they went they slept Jim was bit in the heel by the dead snakes partner. After that Huck started believing in superstitions. Jaime Balderrama
Superstition is a way of thinking in which one believes that events can link together without any given reason. In this case, superstition leads a big part of Jim's life while Huck is still doubtful about it. Jim warns Huck that touching a snake with his bare hands is very bad luck. On the contrary to what Jim says and being as hard-headed as he is, Huck doesn't believe him and decides to pull a prank on Jim by curling a dead snake next to his feet. Lo and behold,a snake mate bites Jim which results in Huck becoming more cautious.
Superstition is, in a certain perspective, "goofy". In huck's veiw, jim takes simple and out of the blue things to an unnessisary level. Such as touching the snake skin. Yet in other cases Huck goes and abides by the social conduct of some superstition. Huck talks about spilling the salt at breakfast. He tries to throw it over his shoulder to keep off the bad luck but Miss Watson is there and won't let him. It plays a big part in seeing someone as different but not really being so different yourself.
Two examples that Jim gives to Huck throughout the chapters are the snakeskin and the dead man. Huck does not believe in superstition much and Jim has a strong belief in it because he believes in coeincidence, or something like karma. After Jim tells Huck about snakeskin being bad luck, Huck plants a dead snake next to Jim while he is sleeping, as a prank. Another snake, the mate of the dead snake, comes and bites Jim, after he is scared/awoken from the dead one. This makes Hucks belief in superstition arise and gives him more of a reason to be cautious in what Jim tells him. The way Jim described the dead man haunting Huck, made more sense to Huck because it was more believable, and seemed more likely. That is why Huck accepts it more easily.
Jim’s superstition affected Huck greatly. But Huck, being the non believer that he is, didn’t pay much attention to the warnings and the consequences that Jim stressed. As a prank, Huck decided to test Jim’s superstitious theories by wrapping a dead snake skin around Jim’s feet. What Huck didn’t know was the snakes mate came by and bit Jim. Huck started to feel sorry for the bad luck that he gave Jim, which made Huck go from a non believer to a believer and Jim continues to be a strong believer.
jim centers most of his way of life through superstition. as the book progresses, huck leter starts to "believe" in superstition. A great example that shows us the superstition of both characters is when jim wraps the snake around hucks foot. but instead the one who got the bed luck was jim because later the snakes mate came and bit jim. huck later realized or thought that he gave jim the bad luck and he was more careful with his actions and his sayings. therefore, after that "prank", huck started to believe more in superstition.
Jim is the kind of person who highly believes in superstitions, this can also enroll by the fact he believes in how touching or getting touch by a snake skins is bad luck. On the other hand Huck doesn't believe Jim because of the money they both founded on the overcoat, But after Huck trying to play a prank to Jim, and this makes a snake skin have contact with Jim, this event convinces and makes Huck believe Jim and superstition throughout the chapters.
Jim seems to believe heavily in superstition, he believes that touching snake skin is bad luck. During there time on the island Huck believes that there is no such thing as bad luck. He sees snake skin eeand decides to touch it. He then finds a snake and decides to kill it and wrap it around Jim's leg as a prank, but the mate of the dead snake bites Jim on the heel. This makes Huck believe in bad luck .
Jim believes very highly in superstition, because he can relate to it. Jim tell Huck '' that if you have hairy arms, one day you'll be rich.'' Hucks then asks if Jim has ever been rich, and Jim answers yes. Jim also says that if young birds or chickens come flying, a yard or two, that that's a sign that it's gong to rain. Sure enough Jim was right, that night when they get to the cave it rains. -Emily Sierra
jim believing in superstition effects his whole life and how he lives it, and since jim and huck have been to together he's gotten in hucks head about superstition. when jim talks about the birds and then it rained when they got to the cave, plus what happened to the snake. -Robert valle
One of Jim's superstition is that if someone touches a snake's skin they will get bad luck. Huck didn't believe him because while they were in the island he touched a snake's skin. After he does that he finds another snake and kills it and he wanted to put it where Jim was sleeping. When Huck puts the dead snake where Jim is sleeping and Jim gets scare and jumps but the snake's mate was there too and bites Jim on the heel. That is when Huck starts believing that it was bad luck touching snake's skin and believes Jim's superstitions. Now Jim and Huck are being careful to what they do.
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Jim is someone who belives superstitiions hold a very heavy role in life, for they bring the element of hope and fear by giving a rule that will dictate your luck. This can be seen in chaper 10, when jim and huck are disscusing on the topic, how if you touch a sankes skin you get bad luck. Huck didnt belive the for the money they found in the overcoat, at the house they passed that was hit by the flood, could be taken as a sign of good luck. Jim warns huck by saying" it's coming to him" so huck decides to play a prank on jim by getting a dead snake and putting it at his feet while he is sleeping. Yet the snakes mate came by and bit jim, giving the two of them a reason to belive in the superstition. That incodent caused them to belive that jim getting bitten by the snake was beacuse of huck touching the skin.
ReplyDeleteJim believes heavily in superstition and Huck believes in a few. Jim and Huck are discuss how Jim says that it is bad luck to touch a snakeskin with your hands. Huck doesn't believe him because they found money in an overcoat they took from a house that was tilted on its side from the flood. Huck plays a prank on Jim and curls a dead snake up and puts it by Jim's feet while he is sleeping. The snake's mate comes and bites Jim. This gives the two reason to believe the superstition. They believe that Jim getting bitten by the snake was a result of Huck touching the snakeskin. The fact that Jim believes in superstition so much makes him very cautious of what he does.
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Superstition that Jim and Huck share is that when you touch a snakes skin you end up having bad luck. Huck touches a snake on the island, after a while he sees another one and kills it and wraps it around Jim's leg. The dead snakes mate comes and bites Jim after screaming. This then convinces Huck that touching the snake can lead to bad luck. As they continue their journey a series of unfortunate events happen this could have been due to the fact that Huck had touched a snakes skin. Jim and Huck are big believers of superstition that has led them to go into dangerous events.
ReplyDeleteSuperstition can effect people in many ways either in a positive or negative way. For example in The Adventures of Huck Finn, Jim and Huck both have their share of superstitions. Jim, however, has much more than Huck does. In Chapter 10 it mentions how Jim is trying to explain to Huck how touching snake skin with your bare hand is bad luck, and Huck begs to differ by explaining to him how they found money out of the blue. Later Hucks perception changes when the snake mate bite Jim after a prank attempt he tried to play on Jim. The result of this event keeps Jim and Huck's superstition high, and they are always keeping an eye out on what they do.
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Jim is a fellow who believes in superstition an after a while hucks starts believing in superstition after the event that occure when huck doesnt believe catching some birds makes a person have bad luck. Jims father laid mighty sick once and some of them catched a bird his grandmother mentioned his father father would die an he eventually died.Meaning as the chapters continue bad luck start happening to Huck and Jim when Huck decides on touching a snake skin. Making Huck another believer of superstiton.
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Jim is a superstition believer, but huck on the other hand is not. When jim explained the story about how is father would die because he catched a bird, and his grandmother said that he will die. Then he died. Huck starting to believe from that moment on, because of the whol thing happened with the snake. Jim clearly stated that touching a snake skin with his hands will bring him bad luck. then they found the money in the jacket and huck thought that was it. that theres no bad luck, and jim said its coming. Then huck decided to play a prank then soon bad luck hit. whent the another snake came and bit jim, huck then believed that there is good and bad luck.
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Jims superstition is that if someone touches snake skin with there hands they will have bad luck. While they were in the island Huck touches snake skin on purpose. Later on Huck decides to play a prank on Jim due to his superstition. What Huck decides to do is get a dead snake and out it were Jim is sleeping. During the night the snakes mate bit him. With this Huck starts believing that bad luck will occurs while touching snake skin. Jim and Huck have high superstition leading them to be cautious on what they are doing.
ReplyDeleteJim has strong beliefs in superstition, which makes him think twice on things he is going to do.At first, Huck did not believe in superstition until bad luck struck.One of the superstitions was if someone touches snake skin with their hands, they will have bad luck.Huck was playing a prank on Jim,so he curls a dead snake and puts it by Jim's feet, while he is sleeping . Later, a snake mate bit Jim and convinces Huck that the superstitions' Jim told him where real.
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Superstitions affected Jim by developing a sense of paranoia and making him have a reason or sign why a certain situation occurred. The first sign that Jim spoke to Huck about was how Huck shouldn't catch birds because it brought death. Jim spoke about different signs that made Huck speculative about his reasoning and would often contradict him. Jim and Huck felt that certain events were based on superstition because of coincidence. For example, Jim told Huck not to talk about the dead man because it would fetch bad luck and the man might haunt them because he wasn't in a proper burial place. Huck felt like it was a reasonable superstition and stopped talking about it. When Jim would say not to do something because it brought bad luck and Huck disobeyed, then Huck would realize that Jim was right and soon started to believe more into superstitions.
ReplyDeleteSuperstition is what controls Jim, it controls the way he thinks and what he does. For example, in chapter 10 Jim tells Huck that it was the "worst bad luck in the world" to touch a snake-skin with hands, indicating that superstition is the first thing that goes through his head before anything else which is affecting him mentally. To Jim, things happen for a reason, and Huck starts to believe that as well after what happened when the snake bit Jim. Now Huck is having the same mind-set of superstitions being "number one" as Jim does. And now they believe that certain events are happening for a reason due to the affects of superstition.
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Superstition runs the life of Jim, its influences the way he acts and thinks. His mental aspect strongly believes that superstition affects the events to come. The mindset of Jim soon influences and affects the mind of Huck, due to Jim's worst and biggest superstition to touch a snake skin with your hands, resulting in bad luck. This belief is soon proven to be true to Huck after the snake came back to bite Jim. Soon superstition will be factor to Huck beginning to second guess himself before acting on things.
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ReplyDeleteIn these chapters, it is shown how Jim is a strong believer of superstition, while Huck is slightly doubtful about it. Superstition is conversed between Jim and Huck during chapter 10 where they talk about the different ways good luck and bad luck is given. Jim warns Huck about how touching a snake's skin is terrible bad luck, and Huck is doubtful and questionable about it. Huck ignores Jim's warning and decides to play a prank on Jim by placing a dead snake by Jim's sleeping area, which's mate later comes and bites Jim on the ankle. This event then convinces Huck to believe that Jim has some sort of knowledge of the way nature works which turns Huck a believer as well. Superstition controls Jim and Huck's actions and decisions throughout the chapters.
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Huck didn't really believe in superstition as much as Jim did. While they were on the island, Huck touches snakeskin with his bare hand, not knowing it will give them bad luck. Huck decides to play a prank on Jim when he is asleep. He got a dead snake and puts it near Jim's feet. The snakes mate comes and bites Jim's foot. Afterwards, they both started to believe in superstition, and that if you touch snakeskin it will provide you with bad luck. In Chapter 10 it also stated that Huck wanted to know the story behind the dead man, but Jim doesn't want to tell him. Huck thinks that's bad luck too.
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Jim is very superstition compare to Huck. Is very helpful to him because he thinks twice before doing things. Huck believe on superstition after the accident with the snake. He first touch a snake's skin then he finds another one and kill it. That was a sign of bad luck but Huck didn't realize. Until he tries to put it on to Jim but Jim got scare and jump. There was a snake mate and bite Jim in the heel. Then he realize that Jim was right about superstition.
ReplyDelete-Hector Aldama
Jim strongly believe in superstition, while Huck didn't really believe in it. A superstition Jim believes is if you touch a snake's skin with your bare with your bare hands you will get bad luck. Huck didn't really think about it much and decided to pull a prank on Jim. Jim was asleep and Huck grabs a dead snake and puts in next to Jim's feet. Later the snake's mate comes and bites Jim on the ankle. After this happening Huck started to believe on superstition just like Jim does.
ReplyDeleteJim is someone who strongly believes in superstition compare to Huck. Jim believes that if you touch a snake's skin with your bare hands you will get bad luck. But Huck didn't believe it so he decided to pull a prank on Jim. When Jim was asleep Huck curls a dead snake and puts it by Jim's feet. Later, a snake bites Jim and maskes Huck realize that the superstition that Jim told him were real.
ReplyDeleteJim life is run by superstition every single action he make is based on if it will bring good or bad luck. Huck's belief in superstition is not as strong as Jim's is. For example Huck wanted to play a prank on Jim so he found a snake and killed it. Putting it near Jim's bed well later he has forgotten about it and the snakes partner had coiled it self around it's dead mate. The snake ends up biting Jim and Huck then believes the superstition of bad luck coming when you touch a snake with your bare hands. After the incident Huck has a better understanding as to the fact that Jim really knows about superstition and that it would be wise to listen to what Jim has to say.
ReplyDeleteSuperstition plays a major role in Jim's life, causing him to live a certain way. But it also causes him to believe and fear in irrational things. Yet both Huck and Jim believe that these superstitions are true due to a string of events that follow certain actions. This can include when Huck picked up the snake skin (causing Jim's event of getting bitten) and him joking about a dead Huck. In short superstition runs his life and it has some kind of actuality.
ReplyDelete-Carmen "Patty" Arreola
As i was introduced to this chapters i could conclude that Jim highly belives on superstitions. While Huck in the other hand believes that Jim's superstitions are an act of coincedence. Huck made a prank to Jim to make his point that theres no such thing as superstitions. The prank only made Huck realize that superstitions do exsist. And by that it also made him a highly believer on superstitions.
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ReplyDeleteHuck’s superstitious beliefs seem to revolve around bad luck rather than good. He follows his superstitions as a sort of precaution against certain bad events. We see it as Huck’s desire to blame bad happenings on bad luck, whereas he thinks good things are natural or have been earned in some way. Since Huck doesn't trust in religion to explain life’s negative moments, he uses superstitions instead. Also From the very outset of the story, Huck reveals his superstitions because theyt have been ingrained in his mind through his upbringing and are a part of his surrounding culture.
Superstition affects Jim in different ways. It controls his thoughts and his actions. He believes that anything you do will have a consequence. After touching the snake skin with his hands, Jim tells Huck that he will have bad luck but after finding the money in the coat, Huck doesn't think Jim's superstition was all that accurate. Later on Huck decides to play a prank on Jim, so he kills a snake and puts it by Jim's feet, while he's sleeping but he forgot that when you leave a dead snake out its mate always come to curl beside it. The snake bit Jim and after all the commotion Huck is now convinced that the reason the whole incident happened was because of Jim's superstition about his bad luck.
ReplyDeleteJim started believing in superstition ever since his father died because he cached a bird. From that point he has been very careful of what he is doing. Huck on the other hand is careless and thinks its ridiculous. But when Jim warned him about touching the snakes skin would only bring him bad luck, Huck finds money inside the coat he finds. Huck explains to Jim that its all in his head but Jim is convinced that the worse is yet to come. Later, Huck goes back to the house to find a snake, kills it and plans to prank Jim by laying it under his feet while hes sleeping. Huck didn't think this through and the dead snakes mate ended up biting Jim. Huck later understands that all of that happened because he touched the snakes skin and that Jim superstition was right.
ReplyDeleteJulia Martinez
Even since chapter two Huck has known about Jim's superstition and always laughed about it and never believed it. But when it came to Huck and Jim being in the same island Jim's superstition influenced Huck more and more. In chapter ten for example, Jim warns Huck that it is bad luck to touch a snakes skin. Huck doesn't listen to him and wants to play a joke on Jim. When he puts the snake on Jim's leg and the mate bites Jim he then starts believing that maybe everything that Jim believes is true. That is when Huck's friendship with Jim starts influencing him and starts making him believe that maybe after all being superstitious would direct him to a good path.
ReplyDelete-Noheli Gutierrez
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ReplyDeleteJim relies and believes heavily on superstitions. With these suprrsitions it has allowed Jim to over think many actions and events that had taken place throughout these chapters. For example, in chapters 10 Jim lectures Huck about good and bad luck when Jim catches Huck touching snake skin . Huck didn't believe him so he decide to play a prank on Jim and to leave the snake skin on him. But later the snakes mate had came and bitten Jim. After this incident Huck had believed in superstitions. This has placed a lesson on Huck. This has convey a sense on Huck to listen to Jim when it comes to unusual events that occur. These superstitions do affect both characters throughout these chapters.
ReplyDeleteSuperstition itself is actually an important role based upon the book. It happens a few times throughout the book where Huck and Jim come across some bad and good luck. I think in the middle from the chapter's assigned to read gives an example of superstition. An example of superstition would be when Huck and Jim found eight dollars in an overcoat which implied for them to believe it's goodluck. When Huck came across a rattlesnake in search for something he ended up killing it and placing near Jim to lead to a bite attack in which gives reason for them to believe it was badluck.
ReplyDelete-Evelyn Simmons
I believe Jim's superstition led him to become a most interesting man of thought. For his own perception affects how their adventure goes on, and more things him and Huck learn on the way. His belief of superstition is a major role in the story, coming between karma and luck. After Huck and Jim meet on Jackson Island, Jim's beliefs began to take over Huck slowly. As they spent more time together, superstition rose with nearly everything Huck did. Jim's saying to Huck, "It's coming to him," directly results to our source of superstition. Therefore, the snake; when Jim warned Huck about the snake skin, Huck's arrogance went from a simple joke on Jim to an unexpected bite from the snake's mate. This led to Huck's believing of superstition that Jim had so told him about.
ReplyDelete- Tehvanee Tuialuuluu
jim is an interesting character with his superstion about the snake skin (if anyone touches snake skin they get bad luck) but huck was kinda optomistic about superstion in the book so in the story huck puts a dead snake in where jim was sleeping and not to long an other snake bites him in the heel and now i could say that huck believes in superstion as well as jim ALEX ZAMORA
ReplyDeleteLeonard A. Lafoe
ReplyDeleteJim has a heavily superstitious outlook toward life. Almost anything that happens to him and Huck he has some sort of superstition to go along with it. For example, Jim saw two birds flying in the same way young chickens do when it is supposed to rain. Sure enough, it did. Huck seems to be in between believing Jim's superstitions and not. But after Jim said that if you touch a snake skin you are certain to be bitten by a snake, Huck decided to play a prank on him by placing a dead snake by Jim while he was sleeping. Another snake was attracted to the first and bit Jim. So now Huck may believe in Jim's superstitions after all.
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ReplyDeleteSuperstitions play a big role on Jim's life, Huck on the other hand, not a big fan. Although something causes Huck to not rule out superstitions fully. When Huck was in the island, he touched a snake and it brought back a memory when Jim said tat if you touched a snake's skin, you would have bad luck. Humored by this believe, Huck kills a snake farther along and later plants in on the foot of the bed where Jim is sleeping. The snake's mate comes along to Jim's bed and bits him in the foot, causing both, Huck and Jim, to believe that they are now being touched by bad luck. Huck now begins to think of Jim a bit different and believes him more than he did before.
ReplyDelete~Joel Martinez
Jim's strong belief in superstitions has had a big impact on his life. He is careful with certian things he does becase of karma and luck. Huck is not as superstitious as Jim is, however Huck now believes a little more after an experience he had.
ReplyDeleteOne of the superstitions Jim told, was if you touche snake skin with your hands, you will start to have bad luck. Huck tried to play a prank on Jim, so he found a snake and layed it near Jim when he was asleep. Later, a snake mate had bit Jim. After seeing this happen Huck started to believe what Jim had been saying to him. This also leads to him being more curious about the dead man and Jim's superstition beliefs.
Throughout the chapters 8-14, superstition takes place upon both Jim and Huck ; they both have their own point of view on the way that it works. In the novel, it states that Jim’s superstition about the touching of a snake is bad luck, but Huck doesn’t view it as that. Huck questions Jim of such bad luck because of the money that they find out of nowhere. Later, Huck questions his belief when the snakes mate bites Jim which leads him to believe that-that’s the bad luck from touching the snake in the first place.
ReplyDeleteThroughout these chapters, we are introduced to Jim when Huck runs into him in the forest. While Jim heavily believes in superstition, Huck is obviously having his doubts. Having touched a snake, Huck is told he will have bad luck yet nothing has happened. Jim is later bitten after Huck's prank backfires. This event can clearly be labeled as the direct consequence of superstition.
ReplyDelete-Alexandra Faith Yrigoyen
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ReplyDeleteIn these chapters its shows how jim is a very superstitious individual as to Huck who think superstition is a joke. When Huck unknowingly handles a snake-skin. Jim tellls him that by handling the snake- skin they will have bad luck. Huck thinks that what Jim told him is a lie and also that it is funny. Later on in the novel huck kills a snake and plants it at the end of where jim was sleeping.Jim is bit by the dead snakes friend.Huck trusts Jim that the bite was the result of a superstitious bad occurence. Huck then begins to believe Jim and all of his superstition . As the two of them spent more time together Hucks superstition grew more in his life.
ReplyDelete-David A. Gomez
In these chapters you see more of Jim's character, and how he interacts with Huck. You learn that Jim believes in superstition and in bad luck. Jim mentioned that touching snake skin is bad luck, Huck puts a snake by Jim's side while he's sleeping and the snake's mate decided to bite Jim. After that Huck believes he might have bad luck. I look forward on seeing these two characters collaborate with each other more.
ReplyDeleteIn chapters 8-14, you find out that Jim has a lot of superstitious beliefs. Jim says that touching a snake will bring bad luck. Huck thinks differently and as a joke, puts a snake near Jim while he is sleeping. The snakes' mate comes and bites Jim. After this, Huck starts believing more in Jim's superstitious beliefs.
ReplyDelete- Allyson Sanchez
Jim has a superstitious look toward everything in life, he believes everything that happens is a sign. As for Huck, he thinks superstition is nothing but a joke. In chapter 10, Jim was telling Huck that if you touch a snake skin it brings bad luck. Huck, of course, took that as a joke. Huck ends up killing a snake and placing it at Jim's feet while he slept. As a result of that the snake's mate bites Jim at the heel. After that little incident, Huck began to believe in superstition as well. Jim being with Huck was the cause of superstition growing more in his life.
ReplyDeleteIn these chapters you get to see Jims views and his way of life that everything that happens for a reason is like a sign and how that affects Huck. Jim is very superstitious and believes in karma and bad luck.On one of the chapters Huck touches a snake-skin and to Jim that is bad because he tells him that by doing that they where supposably going to have bad luck. Huck on the other hand takes it as a joke and puts the dead snake on Jim while he was sleeping and turns out the snakes mate comes and bites Jim. This leads to Huck starting to think of Jim a bit different and believes him more than he did before and of course Jim now is like " I told you so!" In my point of view.
ReplyDeleteJim allows his superstition to be an important part of his life. He relies on what he's heard to get along daily, including predicting the weather. As Jim's and Huck's journey go on, Jim mentions that touching a snake's skin is bad luck. Huck brushes this off as he doesn't believe Jim because he had touched a snake and no bad luck came his way. Forgetting that a snakes mate will curl up with it when dead, Huck later curls up a dead snake by Jim's feet at night as a prank. The snake's mate eventually comes and bites Jim's foot, beginning the bad luck supposedly brought by touching a snake. As Huck begins to believe Jim after this, Jim explains that much worse luck is to come, resulting in Huck to become more of a believer of superstition.
ReplyDelete-Valerie Aspen Duran
Superstition greatly affects Jim, the reason solely being he was raised to believe in it. In Chapter 8, Jim retells a memory to Huck Finn about the relation between rain and birds. One moral of the story being that when young chickens fly in irregular patterns it is a sign that it will rain. Another moral was that catching birds would lead to one's death, as it had happened to Jim's father. Shortly after telling his story, it rained in the beginning of Chapter 9. As a direct result of Jim's superstition. Everything had occurred as Jim had predicted, making Huck Finn a believer.
ReplyDelete-Dayjah Harris
Jim is a superstitious man and he allows his superstition to revolve in his life. Jim also believes in karma and bad luck and shows to Huck that he believes in bad luck when Huck touches the snake skin. Huck takes what Jim says more like a joke and decides to put the dead snake on Jim while he was sleeping then the snake mate appears and bites Jim. After this happens Huck begins to believe more in what Jim was telling him about the bad luck, and Huck becomes more of a believer in superstitions.
ReplyDelete~Mark Gonzales
Jim's belief in superstition molds his entire lifestyle. Huck's view on superstition is opposite than Jim's. He sees superstition as silly nonsense. Jim strongly believes that touching snake skin brings you bad luck. Huck claimed the snake skin myth false and killed a snake to lay beside Jim as a joke. After the mate of the dead snake came and bit Jim, Huckleberry changes his belief on the snake skin myth.
ReplyDelete- Celeste Molina
Jim explain to huck about superstition in which he strongly believe in. Huck doesn't believe anything Jim say untill the snake skin incident. Jim told huck that if you touch a snake skin you'll get "bad luck". Huck test that theroy by putting snake skin next to jim and the snake mate comes and bites jim leg. After wittnessing what had happen huck starts to believe in superstition but not as much as jim.
ReplyDeleteJim and Huck run into each other in the forest. While Jim has a strong belief in superstition Huck thinks its silly. Jim tries to convince Huck into believing in superstition. Jim tells Huck that catching birds can lead to death, then tells him about a time when his father caught a bird, his grandmother said he would die and later he died. Hucj thinks Jim is over reacting and tries to prove to Jim that there is no such thing as superstition by putting a dead snake next to Jim as he slept. The next day Jim got bitten by the snakes mate. After the snake incident Huck starts believing more in superstition, and learned his lesson to never touch a snake with his hands.
ReplyDelete- Jasmine Vargas
Superstition can be good or bad towards someone. In this case Jim has a strong belief towards superstition. Superstition can keep him from doing or participating in certain things. While Huck is against it and really doesn't believe in it. Jim told Huck if he touched the snake's skin it was going to bring bad luck. Huck decides to pull a prank on Jim and puts a dead snake next to him while he's sleeping. The plan did not work the way Huck expected it to be . The snake's mate ended up bitting Jim. Huck later realized that maybe Jim was right, and he shouldn't be so curious and just listen. Because of this Huck started believing superstition is real.
ReplyDelete- Vianca Ruiz
Jim relies heavily on superstition. He believes that if a person touches a snake skin they'll get bad luck. At first, Huck doesn't pay him any attention. As a joke, Huck places a dead rattlesnake by Jim as he sleeps. The rattlesnake's mate bites Jim on the leg and Huck starts to believe in Jim's superstitions, since he handled the dead snake, he brought bad luck to Jim.
ReplyDelete-Cristina Rodriguez
Jim's life revolves around the superstition he believes. What of his superstitions is, if you touch the skin of a rattle snake, you will get bad luck. Huck ignores Jim and decides to play a prank on Jim, while he is sleeping Huck puts a dead snake next him. It didn't go as planned and the snakes mate but Jim on the leg. Huck then starts to believe in Jim's superstition, and they both begin to be more careful throughout the rest of the chapters.
ReplyDelete-Chris Powers
In this chapters were introduce to Jim believe of superstition, he believes that certain things can give you bad luck. Huck otherwise doesn't really believes in anything that Jim says since Jim warned him about touching the snakes skin and later Huck finds money inside a coat. Jim tells Huck to not be so secure because he is in no doubt that something is going to happen. Afterward, Huck goes back to the cavern and finds a rattlesnake, kills it and curls it up. He plans to make a prank on Jim by putting it in his foot while sleeping. Huck completely forgot about the snake until he saw Jim throwing himself and jumping after being bitten by the dead rattlesnake's mate. Later, Huck acknowledges that all that happen because he touch the snake skin and starts believing Jim superstitions. Which then will affect the actions of Huck.
ReplyDelete- Jennifer Arreola
Its seems that everyone has forgotten that the snake skin wasnt the only superstition Jim picked up on. If you dont remember Jim tells Huck that "them little birds had said it was going to rain" adding to the reason as to why they should put all their stuff in the cavern. Just a couples of paragraphs later from this sentence you see that Jim was spot on about his chat with the birds. This is a great example on how Jims supersitions affect what he does. Jim also tells Huck not to talk about the dead man that they found inside the house because it would "fetch abad luck". And of course, the snake skin superstition, this superstition to huck is directly commected to Jim getting bitten by the dead snakes mate completly convincing Huck that Jims is right about his superstitions.
ReplyDeleteJim and Huck meet at the island. They work together for food and shelter. Along the chapters we get to know more about the character of Jim. Who is a man that believes highly in superstitions, and Huck does not share that same belief. Jim tells Huck about certain things not to do because it would cause bad luck. Huckleberry starts messing with things that Jim says and bad things start to happen. Huckleberry should start to be more wise about the things he does as it can cause trouble later on.
ReplyDeleteJim's superstitious nature heavily affect Jim in several situations. For example, when Huck first runs into Jim on the island, Jim tells Huck Finn that they need to head to a cave because he saw baby birds flying which means a storm is heading their way, and although the superstition says it's for flying baby chicks, Jim "reckons" that it'll work the same way. And because it rained they believed it was because of what they Jim saw. In another situation, Jim warns Huck to never touch snake skin because it's horrible bad luck. Of course, Huck doesn't believe him, and tries to play a prank on Jim. Unfortunately, Jim gets bit by the snakes' mate, causing Huck to believe that it is all his fault for not being wary of his warning.
ReplyDelete-Breanna Bailey
While Jim has a strong belief in superstition Huck thinks its just a joke. Jim states that catching birds can lead to death. He tells Huck about the time when his father caught a bird. Jims grandmother had told Jims' father that he would die if he caught a bird, he didn't believe in superstition just like Huck, so Jims' father caught a bird and had faced his death later on. Superstitions affected Jim, because now he'll have to be cautious about his actions. Huck thinks Jim is being naïve and tries to prove to him that there is no such thing as superstitions. Jim had told Huck that if you touch snake skin, that you will get bad luck. Of course, Huck didn't believe in superstition, but once he saw that Jim had gotten bit by the dead snakes mate, he started to realize that Jim was right about superstitions.
ReplyDelete- Vivian Gomez
Jim has lived his life truly believing that luck is brought by doing or not doing certain things in life. Superstition has altered Jim's life in ways that good or bad will become of it. While Huck at first paid no attention to Jim's belief of touching the snake with a bare hand is now reluctant to every touching a snake again. Huck acknowledged and faced the fact that because he touched the snake something bad came of it, which was Jim being bit. As a result Huck who is no longer a skeptic will share the same beliefs with Jim.
ReplyDelete-Illiana Placencia
Jim was a superstitious man believing everything was controlled by pure superstitions. At first Huck did not pay attention to these beliefs of Jim but as he grew to to know him he also grew to believe in these things such as the snake incident. After that Huck goes from a skeptic to a superstitious person too.
ReplyDeleteHuck doesn't quite believe in superstitious as much as Jim does... yet as times is going by it seems as if Huck is believing more and more of the crazy thing Jim tells him to do. For example dropping a hairball to the floor and listening to what it would say is a very superstitious thing to believe in. Also Huck touching a snakes skin is a sign of bad luck according to Jim. So as Jim falls asleep Huck decides to pull a prank on Jim by putting a dead snake in Jim's feet; so then the snakes mate comes by and bits Jim. Therefore this gave Huck and Jim a reason to believe in superstition, and of course Jim and Huck both think this was due to Huck touching the snakes skin.
ReplyDelete- Bryan Chavez
Jims big belief on superstition has grown on Huck. Every story Jim has to tell Huck believes him more and more. The first story about catching a bird and facing death and how it happened to Jims father is what made a bulb go off in Hucks head but wasnt so bright yet. That led to Huck wanting to test it, so he goes and wraps snakes skin around Jim and watches the superstition happen.The other superstition Jim said was about the dead man and how its wrong to think of him to think about it or else his sport will come to haunt them because of the nonpeaceful burial of the corpse. So superstition is defiantly growing on Huck.
ReplyDeleteJim's belief in superstititions really doesnt have an affect on himself. However, since he happened to be right about touching dead snake skin and getting bad luck, i think this boosted his confidence in superstitions. With that being said, he was somewhat happy that he proved Huck wrong, and that Huck was a little surpised that his luck had indeed changed after tocuhing the dead snake skin. Now Huck pretty much has to believe in superstition.
ReplyDelete-Alexander Powell
Huck and Jim start off on different sides of superstition, Huck not believing in it and Jim believing very strongly in it. Huck, thinking he will prove Jim wrong touches the snake skin to prove it does not bring bad luck, only proves Jim correct. After he touches the snake bad things start to happen, leading Huck to believe Jim might know what he is talking about when it comes to superstition. Jim is not really affect by Huck's belief in superstition because he already believed in it as he has expressed in a number of stories. Huck now heeds Jim's warnings about superstition.
ReplyDeleteJoshua Duron
Jim was a strong believer of superstition, he always had some type of reasoning for the patterns of which something happened. For example birds flying in a irrelevant pattern is a sign of rain, the next thing they were looking for ways to keep their belongings from getting wet during the rain storm. Huck still wasn't convinced. But continuing their journey and coming across a dead snakes skin, and Jim getting bit by the snakes mate some what persuaded Huck in believing superstition, after the moral Jim told Huck about what bad luck you'd get touching a snakes dead skin. Further more down the journey their taking, Huck seems to have a little more belief in it, little by little as their traveling together.
ReplyDeleteSince Jim already believed in superstition, it didn't really have much affect on himself. But Huck began to follow Jim's stance on superstition as the story goes on. Jim, being a firm believer, told Huck about his superstitious stories. Huck didn't pay no minds to the stories or even Jim's belief. To test Jim's superstitious theories Huck decided to play a small prank on Jim while he was asleep. He wrapped dead snakes skin around Jim's feet. Soon enough the snakes mate came along and bit Jim. Huck felt sorry for not listening to the warnings Jim gave about bad luck. That was the turning point for Huck's belief in superstition and he started to follow Jim's talk about good and bad luck more and more.
ReplyDelete-Risa Gay
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ReplyDeleteSuperstition plays a major role in Jim's life controlling what he does and what he thinks. But not in Huck's life until his luck had turned when he touched the snake skins. Huck killed a snake and then pulled a prank by putting the dead snake where Jim was sleeping. Unfortunately when Jim was bitten by the dead snake's mate. Huck realizes that happened because he touched the dead snake skin. That was when Huck started to get a better understanding of superstitions.
ReplyDelete~Matthew Foley
Jim was very dedicated to his beliefs in superstition. When Huck decided to pull a prank on Jim, by putting a dead snake besides him while he slept. He forgot that wherever you leave the dead snake the mate follows and curls around it. When the snakes mate comes to Jim and Huck at night the snake bites Jim on the heel. Jim immediately tells Huck to "..chop off the snake's head and throw it away, and then skin the body and roast a piece of it.." Huck does so and Jim eats it and ties around the rattles of the snakes around his wrists he said it would help cure him of the venom. Huck started to believe Jim about his superstition after that incident.
ReplyDeleteJim believes heavily on superstitions because of his past. Even though he believes it is a big role in life for luck giving you hope or fear Huck doesn't believe him. Huck tries to somehow show Jim that it isn't real by playing a childish prank on him. Jim told him that touching snake skin is unlucky so Huck gets a dead snake and puts it near Jim's feet. The snakes mate came and bit Jim on his foot. After that Huck started to believe in superstitions after the incident.
ReplyDeleteHuck isn't really a strong believer in superstition, until Jim comes along, who is a strong believer. Jim tells Huck that touching a dead snakes skin is bad luck, but Huck being one who doesn't believe in superstitions, touches the snake skin anyway. Huck and Jim are in a small cave when Huck decides to pull a prank on him. Huck finds a rattlesnake, kills it, and puts it in Jim's blanket, when night comes Huck forgets all about it and when Jim was going to lay down he was bitten. Huck completely forgot that when a snake dies its mate curls around it, and protects it's dead mate. Huck discovers that maybe Jim's superstitious beliefs might actually be true, because of the snake skin, and he starts to believe in superstitions more.
ReplyDelete--Andrea Terrazas
Jim has a strong believe in superstitions, he tells him a hole bunch of stories about it. Huck doesn't believe him he just thinks their an old tale. When Huck kills the snake and tries to play a prank on Jim he ignores the snakes mate. After he wraps the snake around Jim's foot the snakes mate comes and bites Jim on the heel. Jim quickly tells Huck to kill the snake, cut his head of cut a piece of its skin and burn it. He also holds the snakes rattles on his wrists after all that Huck started to believe more in Jim's stories.
ReplyDeleteJim has been introduced in some of the recent chapters when Huck finds Jim at the forest. Jim has a strong believe in superstition. Jim believes that if you touch a snake with your bare hands you will have bad luck. Huck was unsure of that so he played out a prank. Huck took a dead snake and placed it on Jim. Later a snake comes and bites Jims foot. Huck then starts believing on superstitions.
ReplyDeleteOne of Jim's superstition is that if someone touches a snake's skin they will get bad luck. Huck didn't believe him. Continuing the journey Jim getting bit by the snakes mate some what persuaded Huck in believing superstition, after the moral Jim told Huck about what bad luck you'd get touching a snakes dead skin. Huck seems to have a little more belief in it, little by little as their traveling together.
ReplyDeleteJim and Huck both show a great belief in superstition, Jim especially. Superstition leads Jim onto a lot of things, "Ef you's got hairy arms en a hairy breas', it's a sign that dat you's agwyne to be rich." This is a superstition that causes Jim to believe he's going to be rich. Huck was skeptical over Jim's superstitions at first, he questioned them; "You said it was the worst luck in the world to touch a snake-skin with my hands. Well, here's your bad luck! We've racked all this truck and eight dollars besides. -" Soon enough, Huck was given a reason to reconsider his doubts when Jim was bit by a snake, after Huck killed one and left it at camp. Huck had finally begun to believe the tall superstitions Jim spoke.
ReplyDelete-Lorenzo Lambert
Chapters 8-14 deals with a lot of superstitions. One superstition that Jim has is that if you touch a shed snake skin you will have bad luck. Prior to this statement, Jim states that Huck is already under "bad luck." Huck took this as a joke and decides to play a joke on Jim. That same night Huck places a dead snake next to Jim whilst he sleeps. Jim is later bitten by the partner of the dead snake.
ReplyDeleteAnalytical Response: I think Jim has been through some bad times which is why he uses superstition, to cope with what has befallen him. Most of what has happened to Jim was bad timing, i.e. wrong place/wrong time. Jim maybe slightly paranoid, or just to cautious. This might be the reason Huck and Jim both get caught. Or in the end this might save both of them.
-Jarid Holland
Jim is a strong believer in superstition and Huck is not. That changes when Huck attempts to prank Jim by putting touching the dead snake skin and putting the dead snake in Jim's blanket which leads up to Jim getting bitten by the snakes mate. This makes Huck believe that Jim was right about touching dead snake skin bringing you bad luck. But this is not the only even that made Huck believe Jim was right about superstition. Before this Jim had told Huck, "Them little birds had said it was going to rain." Jim ended up being right about what the birds had said. This convinces Huck about Jim being right about superstition.
ReplyDelete~Kimberly Gibson
Supersition affects both Jim and Huck. Jim is more affected by it because he has always truly believed in supersition, while Huck is introduced to it by Jim. It affects them by not allowing them to take or do certain things because they are afraid of bad luck or karma, or it also helps them by giving signs to future events. For example Jim states that Huck is not alowed to touch dead snake skin, and when Huck does he gains bad luck when Jim gets bitten. This leads Huck to believe that Jim was right and it was a direct result of supersition. Another example is when Jim says that the birds are a sign of rain, and it does rain. They both gain confermation of another direct result of supersition.
ReplyDelete-Dominique Lopez
Superstition is what takes over Jim, and it also takes over what he thinks and does. Like for example, in chapter 10 Jim tells Huck that you can get the worst thing in the world which is bad luck, this shows that the first thing that goes through Jims mind is supersition and that affects him mentally. Going through the chapters, Jim ends up getting bit by the snakes mate and then Huck ends up believing him. Now Huck and Jim are in the same mind set of superstition. Now they both believe that everthing is happening for a reason.
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ReplyDeleteJim believes in superstition while Huck really doesnt. Huck starts to believe after the inncident with the snake. Huck tried pulling a fast one on Jim. He put a dead snake next to Jim as he slept. The snake ended up biting Jim. This caused Huck to feel sorry for not listening to Jim when it came to bad luck. Huck then followed Jims talk about good and bad luck somewhat.
ReplyDeleteJim's superstitions can both hold him back and get him ahead in life. He analyzes everything and notices all details of life. It can hold him back by not allowing him to take risks and not living in the moment. It can get him ahead in life by knowing the signs of bad luck so he knows what his next move should be and avoid the bad luck to focus on the good. Jims superstitions' start to rub off on Huck. Not just from the snake incident but after one night, Jim had a terrible nightmare and woke up lost. He was confused if his dream was a reality. While he was explaining his interpretations to Huck, Huck began to realize his superstitions made sense. He began to feel guilty about the snake prank and began to pay attention to these superstitions.
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ReplyDeleteSuperstition affects Jim in different ways. It controls his thoughts and his actions. He believes that anything you do will have a consequence. After touching the snake skin with his hands, Jim tells Huck that he will have bad luck but after finding the money in the coat, Huck doesn't think Jim's superstition was all that accurate. Later on Huck decides to play a prank on Jim, so he kills a snake and puts it by Jim's feet, while he's sleeping but he forgot that when you leave a dead snake out its mate always come to curl beside it. The snake bit Jim and after all the commotion Huck is now convinced that the reason the whole incident happened was because of Jim's superstition about his bad luck.
ReplyDelete-Alexus Renteria
Superstition is the basis of Jim's decisions/actions. Huck already knows that Jim's "religion" is all superstitions and their direct outcomes. On the island, Jim warns Huck to never touch snake skin because superstitions say it brings bad luck. Huck doesn't believe him and does it anyways. The direct outcome for this was Jim being bitten by the now widowed snake. Now Huck is more careful to obey and live cautiously to avoid these negative outcome superstitions.
ReplyDeleteTameka Smith
Through chapters 8 and 14 Jim is displayed as a superstitious man, basically having superstitions as his religion and basing all his actions and reasoning off of them. The superstitions affect Jim by making him analyze and ponder through every decision he is about to make. He could either take his risks and learn from it or become afraid that "the bad luck will happen." Which keeps him asking, "what if?" One thing that does show up in the book is the prank of the snake skin and Jim getting bit by the alive mate. This event makes Huck believe that the superstitions that Jim believes in are actually real. -Princesleah Aguilera
ReplyDeleteJim has really strong belief in superstition which makes a big impact on the way he lives his life.
ReplyDeleteAs Huck believes superstition is nonsense.Jim believes if you touch a snake's skin you'll get bad luck.Huck thinks Jim is over reacting and decides to prove him wrong by putting a dead snake beside Jim While he slept .Unfortunately the next day ,Jim got bitten by the snakes mate . When Huck witnesses this this makes him start believing more in superstition but not as much as Jim.
Jim shows a lot of superstition and basically expects many things to be bad luck. The first sign of superstition was when Huck was about to catch a bird and Jim said it would be bad luck because those birds mean that it will rain. Sure enough it rained and Huck started believing Jim a little more. The second time Jim shows heavy superstition is when Huck touched a snake skin. Time passed and Huck was starting not to believe Jim. One day Huck killed a rattlesnake and decided it would be funny to put it in Jim's bed. When Jim went to his bed the dead snake's mate was there and bit Jim. After that point Huck began believing what Jim would say, because Huck knew that was the bad luck he was waiting for. Jim, although very superstitious is very wise. His superstitions are mostly always correct and it does Huck good to listen to him. Jim's superstitions come very handy on their journeys.
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ReplyDeleteSuperstition plays a big role between these chapters from the beginning. It's show when they try to find Huck's body using cannon fire and bread superstitions. Then when Huck finds Jim, it's revealed Jim extremely believes in superstitions when he talks about how he lost money from putting his money on a cow, a starting bank, and giving it to the church. The most noticeable and defining example though, is when Jim tells Huck touching snake skin will give you the worst of luck. Huck not believing this, goes out and tries to make Jim not believe it either by putting a dead snake right next to him when he's asleep. Things go downhill though when Jim gets bit by the dead snake's mate, coming to the aid of it's dead mate. This leads to Huck believing the superstition was true that he must be more careful next time.
ReplyDelete- Joshua Kelley
Jim is very superstitious and his superstitions influence Huck's actions throughout the chapters. After the snake incident, Jim and Huck's belief in superstitions strengthen. As the pair go downstream to avoid getting caught, they steal in order to meet their needs. Due to the their beliefs in superstitions, they reprimand some of there crimes and Huck sends help to the robbers that they left stranded hoping his goods deeds will bring him and Jim good fortune.
ReplyDeleteJim and Huck are both superstitious about many things. Jim is very more superstitious compared to Huck. Jim told Huck that touching a snake skin was bad luck. But Huck didn't believe that it was bad luck since they were having good luck by finding some good loot on a boat in the river. But that later changes when Jim is bitten by the snakes mate in a prank gone wrong. From this point on Huck believes in the superstitious bad luck signs that Jim warns him about. -Aaron Pingo
ReplyDeleteSuperstition affects Jim because he believes mostly everything that happens is a sign of bad luck. Jim lives his life being cautious and looking for signs in order to stay away from bad luck. There are several examples throughout these chapters that indicate to Jim and Huck that they are a direct result of superstition. One example is when Huck runs into Jim in chapter 8 and Jim sees some birds and predicts this is a sign it is going to rain. Later in chapter 9 when they are in the cave, this superstition comes true. Another example is when Jim tells Finn they must not count the things they are going to cook for dinner because it brings bad luck. Also Jim says "if a man owned a bee-hive, and that man died, the bees must be told about it before sun-up next morning, or else the bees would all weaken down and quit work and die."
ReplyDeleteJim and Huck meet at the island where they worked together to build a shelter and look for food. Jim believes in superstitions. Jim warns Huck about things that can have a bad outcome and cause bad luck, on the other hand Huck does not believe in the things Jim does. For example Huck does not believe in touching the snake with bare hands will bring bad luck to them, but when the snake bit Jim Huck now realized it was bad luck.
ReplyDeleteCarolina Ramirez
Superstition affect Jim, because he really believe in it and it began to close in on the relationship he and Huck were beginning to develop. He knows how to read the signs, like when he saw the bids flying, he knew that they acted like that because of the weather. I think Jim gets by in life with his superstitious ways, like when Huck did not believe that bad luck would occur if he touch the skin of a snake. Huck did not believe in what Jim told him, so when Jim got bit by the snakes mate of the one Huck killed, he did not see the mate curled next to Jim, so Jim got bit and Huck began to trust him more. Jim, being superstitious, told Huck what to do in order for him to be better. If anything else, I think that after the incident in which Huck felt bad about Jim getting bit as a result of "bad luck", I think his trust in Jim began to grow as did their friendship.
ReplyDeleteBoth Jim and Huck are superstitious. Throughout the chapters the ations Jim takes start influencing what Huck does. Jim beleiving in superstition makes a huge impact on his life. Jim told Huck that thouching a snake's skin was bad luck. Huck tried proving Jim wrong so he put a dead snake beside him while he was sleeping. The next day Huck witnessed Jim get bit by tge snakes mate. When Huck saw that he started to beleive in superstition, but never beleived as much as Jim.
ReplyDeleteSuperstition plays a huge role in the way Jim lives his life. Any "little" thing, it seems can bring bad luck. Jim allows his superstitious beliefs control actions and decisions of his daily life. At first, Huck seems to think Jim's superstitions are notable coincidences, or even false. However once the superstition of touching a snake with your bare hand is put to the test and proven true, Huck seems to become influenced by superstition. This scenario allows Huck to better trust Jim and all of his beliefs.
ReplyDelete-Andrea Rodriguez
In chapters 8-14 there were a lot of superstitions that affected Jim. It is a major role in his life causing him to live a certain way. Jim has lived his life believing that luck is shown by what you do and what you don’t do. Huck on the other hand is skeptical and believes that it’s a coincidence. Huck at first paid no attention to what Jim went by. As Huck touches the snake and realizes that Jim was correct he reconsiders his previous thoughts about superstitions. Huck acknowledges and faces the truth of touching the snake resulted in something bad. To conclude Huck no longer was dubious about what Jim lived by. Huck accepted Jim's beliefs and will share common beliefs.
ReplyDelete- Savannah Ortivez
Superstition can affect the way people see things or feel about certain things. For example Jim believe that touching snake skin bring you bad luck, jim believes more in superstition, however Huck still believes but not as much. Huck touches a snake on the isalnd which cause jim to believe that Huck is going to recive bad luck. Jim tries to explain to Huck about how touching snake skin can bring you bad luck, but huck doesnt agree with him since they found money out of nowhere. Superstition has lead them to dangerous things.
ReplyDeleteSonia Villegas
Superstition definitely plays a big role in Jim's life and has started to rub off on Huck. I feel that at the beginning of the book when Huck meets Jim I don't think that Huck pays to much attention to Jim's superstitious beliefs but when Jim gets bitten by a snake. Jim tells Huck to do different superstitious rituals. When Jim gets better a few days later, Huck is amazed. So I believe that this is a major turning point in the book for Jim and Huck's superstitious beliefs.
ReplyDelete~Joshua Ascencio
Jim plays a role in Huck's life, unfortunately it brings a theory of superstition. According to Jim, touching snake skin is a reference of bad luck. Huck seizes to believe in this speculation. A coincidental situation involving pulling a prank on Jim by putting a dead snake on him, it results in a stroke of bad luck including a snake biting Jim. After this incident Huck's mind gets the best of him and he starts believing in this strange matter. It is sure to start future problems and is undoubting sure to effect him negatively.
ReplyDeleteThe superstition that Jim and Huck share is that when you touch a snakes skin you with your bear hands you end up having badluck. However Jim has much more than Huck does. When the snake bites Jim it leads him to badluck and he believes all the bad things that are happening to him is because of that. The result of this event leads to Huck and Jim to believe in superstition more and begin to take precaution in what they do.
ReplyDelete-Fernie Dominguez
Superstition, if you choose to believe in it, can have a positive or a negative effect on ones beliefs. In this case, Jim is a prime example of such a person. Jim deters from doing anything that would bring him bad luck, therefore, superstition dictates his life and the decisions he makes on a daily basis. For example Jim believes that touching a snake skin would give you bad luck, this superstition is only more credible for Jim after Huck played a prank on him and he was bitten by another snake. Huck starts believing in good superstitions after finding money in a jacket.
ReplyDelete-Angel Franco
Superstition affects Jim by making him believe that everything that happens is a sign. For example in chapter 10 Jim tells Huck that by touching a snake skin you will have bad luck. But Huck believes superstition is just a joke, so he decides to prank Jim by killing a snake and placing the snake skin on Jim's feet while he sleeps. This results in Jim getting bit by a snake and changing Huck's mind about superstition.
ReplyDeleteBecause superstition consumes Jim's life, he often finds himself living in fear. For example, he belevies that by holding snake skin, bad luck would come upon him and thus causing him to react in a manner which seems quite unusual. After joining up with Huck in his adventure, they begin to spend lots of time with one another. Jim, unintentionaly becomes a great influnece in Hucks life. For instance when birds where flying above them a yard apart from eachother, Jim stated that it was a sign that a storm was brewing. Later that night a big storm appeared which was a direct result of Jims supertitons. Huck, at this point has begun to believe in Jims superstitions. I believe that within the next few chapters Huck will benefit from these superstitions he has been taught when it comes to surviving.
ReplyDelete-Desirae Parra
Jim's life pretty much revolves around the things he believes in, these "superstitions", it consumes him you could say. one superstition he believes in is, if you touch the skin of a rattle snake with bare hands, you gain bad luck. Huck dismisses Jim's statement and decides to pull a funny joke on Jim whlie he is asleep and puts a dead snake next him, it ends up going wrong and the snakes partner bites Jim's leg. Huck then starts to believe in Jim's superstitions, and they both begin to be more careful throughout the following chapters.
ReplyDelete-Jordan Ocampo
Superstition can make a huge impact in a persons life. In this case the person is Jim, who also drags Huck in his believes. Although, the effects might be good on the other hand they can also be viewed as bad. Jims believes that in seeing birds fly means there's a storm on its way. This was an example of a good superstition, because of this as soon as they found shelter it gave Jim and Huck a reason to stay. So this superstition prepared them for what was on it way.
ReplyDelete- Eurydice Siqueiros
Jim believes in a superstition in which a person touches a snake, they happen to have bad luck but Huck on the other hand does not agree with Jim's superstition. After the prank Huck pulled on Jim involving touching a snake, Huck noticed the outcome and slowly started believing in superstitions like Jim and came to think that everything happening was for a reason due to "superstitions".
ReplyDeleteSuperstition is a big part of this chapters it shows this in the very beginning when they are trying to find Huck's body with cannon and the bread floating down the river. Huck doesn't really believe in all the superstition at the beginning but when Jim comes along he kinda changes his mind. Jim suppression is effects everything he does he questions everything he does and believes if u do this this will happen for example the snake skin, when Huck touched it Jim had stated it was the worst bad luck in the world to touch a snakes skin. Huck didn't believe him so he had killed a snake and curled it up into the foot of Jim's blanket and by night Huck had forgotten about it as Jim went to the blanket the snakes mate bit him in his heel.So as this happened Huck started to believe him because jim said where ever you Leave a snake the mate always comes and curls up around it and that is exactly what happened. So at this point Huck is already starting to believe in all the superstition. This will help Huck along the way so he will not do dumb things but probably hurt him as well as he will began to question everything as Jim does, always asking What if before everything.
ReplyDeleteWhen Huck befriends Jim on the island, he notices how heavily Jim believes in superstition. Jim comments that it is going to rain based on the fact that he saw young birds come flying a yard or two at a time, and sure enough it does. Huck insists on catching the birds and Jim wards him off saying that his father died that way. All of this seems like rubbish to Huck as the reader can obviously tell when Huck mentions how touching a snakeskin is bad luck and how they got just the opposite by finding valuables. Huck decides to mock Jim by placing a dead snake near him while he slept. Huck is baffled when the bad luck does indeed come true when the snake’s mate bites Jim. Huck now believes in the superstitions that Jim mentions and is now aware that there is “consequences” when you go against the superstition.
ReplyDeleteJim believes in superstition, while Huck on the other hand thinks its a joke. In chapter 10 Jim told Huck that if he touches a snake, he would get bad luck. Huck didn't take him seriously and he tried to play a prank on Jim. Huck tried to kill a snake and place it on Jim's feet while he was sleeping but in the process, He was bitten by the snake. This changed Huck's mind about believing in superstition.
ReplyDelete-Shandea Linney
Superstitions are what mainly make up Jim's life. His worries rub off on Huck causing them both to believe that life revolves around these superstitions. Jim had told Huck about the snake skin superstition and because Huck had touched that skin they had come by, he truly sowed what he reaped. The snake Huck had found and killed got its vengeance through the mate. Due to Huck's prank by leaving the dead snake in Jim's quarters, the mate ended up biting Jim in the heel. Although Huck wasn't bitten, we can obviously see that Huck became a firm believer of the concept of superstition. Jim wanted to make sure he followed all the rules when it came to superstition. This fear dictates Jim's life making him very cautious and alert as to what he does to ensure the well-being of his life. Symbolism definitely represented what these fears were all about. So as a result, both Jim and Huck made sure to "never trust the snake in the tree."
ReplyDeleteJim and Huck have very different views on superstition, Jim on one hand believes in it very strongly Huck on the other does not. Jim told Huck different stories about superstition but that didnt change anything. Jim's belief was that if you touch a snake's skin bad luck comes along , because of this Huck tried proving him wrong. While Jim was sleeping Huck wrapped a dead snake around his feet, this caused Jim to get bitten by the snake's mate. Huck then starts to believe in Jim's superstitions and begins to understand him. -Natalia Escobedo
ReplyDeleteJim had a deep belief in superstition and bad luck while Huck had a different idea of the matter. Jim believed that if you were to touch a snake's skin it was to bring you bad luck, but as an attempt of proof Huck places a dead snake on Jim's bed. There ends up being another snake and it bites Jim in the heel. Soon after the event Huck agrees with Jim's ideas of superstition.
ReplyDelete-Cristian Nunez
Superstition takes a big role in this novel. In this case Jim`s charactes strongly bealives in superstitions. On the other hand Huck is careless of superstitions himself. Jim warns Huck that touching a snakes skin with his bear hand will bring him bad luck. However Huck decides to pull a prank on Jim. Huck kills a snake and places it underneath Jim`s feet. What Huck didnt know was that when a snake gets killed their mate comes and wraps themselves around it. Jim got bite by the snake and Huck learned not to under estimate superstitions. This experience will help them in the future actions they are going to take throught the novel.
ReplyDeleteMany people have different ways of seeing superstition , either as a good thing or a bad thing. People may not believe in them at all . For example in The Adventures of Huck Finn, Jim and Huck both have their own superstitions that they believe in. Jim is very much into the subject of superstition . In Chapter 10 says how Jim tells Huck about how touching a snake with his bare hands is bad luck, and Huck doesn't believe him. Later Huck changes his mind about it , when the snakes mate bites Jim after Huck doesn't listen . The result of this event keeps Jim and Huck's superstition high, and start paying more close attention to what they do . -Fernanda Murillo
ReplyDeleteJim and Huck are both superstition, but Jim is much more superstition than Huck. For example, Jim believes that if you touch the skin of a rattlesnake with your bare hands then you will have bad luck. Huck didn't really think anything of it. He tried to prank Jim by putting a dead snake next to him while he sleeps. However, the prank backfires when the snake's mate comes and bites Jim's leg. Huck starts to think that the superstitions might be true and he begins to take it more seriously and becomes more caution of his surroundings.
ReplyDelete-Anthony Lopez
Jim believes heavily in superstition and Huck doesn't. One of Jim's superstition is that if someone touches a snake's skin they will get bad luck. Huck plays a prank on Jim and curls a dead snake up and puts it by Jim's feet while he is sleeping. Huck's prank doesn't work as he wanted. This makes him believe a little more in superstition. That's why Huck is always very careful in all the things that he does.
ReplyDeleteJim's superstition can have a great effect on both him and huck. Such as when Jim told huck that it is bad luck to touch snake skin. Huck not believing Jim decides to play a prank. Huck put a dead snake at Jim's feet while he was sleeping. But the prank took a wrong turn when the snake bite Jim's heel. This caused huck to become more cautious and paranoid with what he does.
ReplyDelete~Jeanette Martinez
Superstition affects Jim's life tremendously in a positive and negative way. A positive result of Jim's superstition is more towards the act of being cautious and heedful of his actions. On the other hand, the negative consequence outcomed to his obsession of a paranoid control. He is mentally controlled because he is afraid of his surroundings, he believes that his actions can bring good or bad luck. The event that mostly affected Jim is when his dad got ill and died after he catched a bird.(which brought bad luck to him)(I also believe this is the reason why he takes his superstition seriously). In the beginning Huck did not give into Jim's superstitions because of the "good luck" he had when he found $8 dollars in an overcoat. The event that opened his mind is when he tried to pull a prank on Jim by killing a snake,and laying it in in his feet while he slept.(touching a snake is very bad luck). When Jim woke up he got bit by the dead snakes mate. After this "bad luck" coincidence I think it made both Jim and Huck think twice about what they do.
ReplyDelete-Jacqueline "Jacqui"Benavides :)
Jim and Huck discuss superstitions in which Jim is well versed and Jim's failed investments, most of which have been scams. Jim is not too disappointed by his failures, since he still has his hairy arms and chest, which according to his superstitions, are a sign of future wealth. Huck puts a dead rattlesnake near Jim's sleeping place, and its mate comes and bites Jim. Jim's leg swells but gets better after several days this makes Huck believe more in superstitions.
ReplyDeleteKaren Flores (:
In chapters 8-14 we are introduced to many of Jim's superstitions. One of them being that you shouldn't touch a snake with your bare hands. Huck not really believing it finds a rattlesnake in the cave and kills it leaving the snake skin by Jim's blanket. But when nightfall comes and they go back to the cave Jim lies down and finds the mate their; it bites Jim. Therefore making Huck believe in superstitions more since it brought him bad luck already. "I made up my mind I wouldn't ever take a-holt of a snake-skin again with my hands, now that I see what had come of it." he says.
ReplyDeleteHuckleberry & Jim both conduct their lives very superstitiously. "...it looked to me like all kinds of signs was bad luck, and so I asked him if there weren't any good signs." Huckleberry begins to feel overwhelmed by all the superstitious precautions Jim has warned him to take. "I made up my mind I wouldn't ever take aholt of a snakeskin again...Jim said he reckoned I would believe him next time." Huck is convinced Jim was bitten by a snake, because of the bad luck he brought upon them and swears to be more cautious. Any misfortune the boys experience, they feel, is tied to any superstitious missteps.
ReplyDeleteIn these chapters, Jim puts the ideas of superstition in Huck's head. Both him and Jim start to live their life to certain guidelines, trying to control the outcome of every situation the encounter. In other words, he becomes a very superstitious person. Huck at first didn't pay too much attention to Jim's superstitions, but after Jim is bitten by a snake, and after his father dies from holding a bird, Huck begins to believe. This makes him start to go about very cautiously, which is somewhat good, but it also makes him very paranoid.
ReplyDeleteBoth Jim and Huck believe in superstition but in their own ways. When Jim explained the story about how is father would die because he cached a bird, and his grandmother said that he will die. Then he died. Huck is starting to believe from that moment on, because of the whole thing that happened with the snake. Jim stated that touching a snake skin with his hands will bring him bad luck. Then they found the money in the jacket and Huck thought that's it, there's no bad luck, and Jim said bad luck will come . Then Huck decided to play a prank and bad luck striked. When the other snake came and bit Jim, Huck then believed that there is good and bad luck, so it was either or.
ReplyDeleteChapter 8-14, Joshua Messer
ReplyDeleteJim, an escaped slave and Huckleberry Finn’s relationship is growing. Both have different beliefs, but are alike in many ways. Jim, is highly superstitious, and Huck naïve. In Chapter 10, Huck finds ten dollars and believes that luck is on his side, however this would soon change. Jim tells Huck that touching the skin of a snake is bad luck, so when Huck finds a snake he kills it and decides to play a prank on Jim. He placed the snake on Jims blanket and the mate of this snake is there and bites Jim. This changed the mind of Huck who may believe a little more in Jim’s superstitious beliefs. This relationship is growing stronger and trust is becoming more evident.
jim strongly belives in superstition, he belives that if you touch a sankes skin you get bad luck.Huck doesn't believe him because they found money in an overcoat, they took from a house that was tilted on its side from the flood. huck decided to play a little prank on jim. when he saw that the snake bite jim he started belicing now in superstition.
ReplyDeleteJim and Huck, Although they might seem like they are very different from each other. They are alike in some ways. One example that has happened between them is the snake prank gone wrong that huck did to jim. it changed Hucks belief into being more superstitious. some people just learn the hard way in this case it was jim that suffered for a lesson to be learned by huck.
ReplyDeleteJim is very superstitious but Huck takes Jim's warnings lightly and begins to interfere and effect them. In chapter 10, Jim tells Huck it is bad luck to touch the skin of a snake so he decides to play a trick on Jim by killing a snake and putting it by Jim but in coincidence the snakes mate comes by and bites Jim on the heel. Ever since that incident both believe in superstition and bad luck.
ReplyDeleteJim believes in superstitions,Huck didn't really believe in that stuff. A superstition Jim believes is if you touch a snake's skin with your bare hands you will get bad luck. Huck didn't really think and decided to pull a joke on Jim. Jim was asleep and Huck grabs a dead snake and puts it next to Jim's foot. Later the snake's mate comes and bites Jim on the ankle. After that happening Huck started to believe the superstition just like Jim.
ReplyDeleteJim believes in superstitions.Huck takes Jim's warnings lightly and begins to interfere and effect them. Although they might seem like they are very different from each other, they are alike in some ways.Jim believes that touching a snake skin would give you bad luck,Huck noticed the outcome and slowly started believing in superstitions. That's why Huck is always very careful in all the things that he does.
ReplyDelete- Steve Herrera
it is shown how Jim is a strong believer of superstition, while Huck is slightly doubtful about it. Superstition is what controls Jim, it controls the way he thinks and what he does. He believes that anything you do will have a consequence. However once the superstition of touching a snake with your bare hand is put to the test and proven true, Huck seems to become influenced by superstition. This scenario allows Huck to better trust Jim and all of his beliefs
ReplyDelete-Jesus Gutierrez
Superstition is a custom of strong belief, as of now we know that Jim is a very strong believer in superstition while Huck is not. Jim uses his belief in superstition in his everyday life thinking everything he does will have a positive or a negative affect on him in some way. Huck thinks that the whole superstition thing is fake, but when he touches the snake and things start going bad he believes Jim more and trusts him.
ReplyDeleteSuperstition is all a belief that someone has. in this case Jim believes in a lot of superstitious stuff. He tries to convince Huck about all these things but Huck just doesn't believe in any of it. One of these superstitious things that Jim believed had to do with touching a snake with your bare hand. Huck does this and all sorts of bad things start to happen to him. Huck then starts to believe Jim.
ReplyDeleteCounting the things you are going to cook for dinner is just a small portion of the superstitions that Jim believes in. On the other hand, Huck doesn't believe in any sort of superstition. He shows this when he decides to play a trick on Jim. Huck found a rattlesnake in the ridge, which was really bad luck to Jim. Huck makes sure he kills the rattlesnake and puts it at the foot of Jim's blanket. Forgetting about the snake, its mate bites Jim on the heel. Huck soon becomes persuaded by Jim's superstitions.
ReplyDeleteJim and huck in this chapter really bond through superstition in this chapter if you will, the reason i say that huck plays with the fact that jim was serious when he told huck not to touch the snake wth his bare hands or he will get bad luck and the snake will eventually bite you.Huck decides to "prove" to jim in a prank that there is no bad luck so he kills the snake and puts it by jim's bed. another snake comes and bites jim's heel:therefore Huck now believes in Jim's superstition.
ReplyDeleteJim believes in superstition and after hanging out with him for a while, Huck starts believing in that too after what happened with the birds. Jim's superstition is that if you touch a snakes skin with your bear hands, you'll have bad luck. Huck was having doubts because bad luck haden't struck yet until he played a prank on Jim and the snake bit him. After that, Huck had a stronger belief towards superstition.
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ReplyDeleteJim seems to believe heavily in superstitions. His superstitions is heavy on his life. One of his superstitions is with a snake skin. When Huck found out about his superstition about the snake skin he thought it would be a "prank" to scare Jim with a snake skin. Huck finds a snake and kills the snake for the "prank". When Jim falls asleep, Huck puts the dead snake next to Jim. When Jim saw the snake he immediately stood up, but then came the snakes mate. The snake mate became angry obviously, then attacked Jim on his heel. -Bobbi Cordle
ReplyDeleteIn previous chapter we figure out Jim believes in superstition. In these chapters we get introduce in Jims believes. Huck doesn't really believe in that, but he gets convinced. Jim believes touching a snakes skin brings you bad luck. Huck knew that wasn't true, since he had touched a snake before, and decides to prank Jim. Huck puts a dead snake on Jims bed, later that night Jim gets bitten on the heel by the snakes mate. Huck then gets convinced on Jims believes.
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In chapters 8-14 we find out that Jim believes in superstition. As we get introduced to Jims crazy beliefs (in which Huck doesn't believe) we realize that Huck is open minded to start believing in the things that Jim has believed in all his life. One of Jims big superstitions was that if you ever touched a snakes skin it will bring you bad luck (now that Huck did not believe since he had touched a snakes skin before), Huck decides to pull a prank on him and puts a dead snake on Jims bed... Later in that night Jim gets bitten in the heel by the dead snakes mate, Huck then gets convinced that he better start believing in Jims superstitions.
ReplyDeleteJim is a very superstitious person, but Huck on the other hand is one who doesn't believe in such things. When Jim explains to Huck how touching snake skin with your bare hand will bring you bad luck Huck is very skeptical and decides to play a "prank" on Jim. Huck puts a dead snake next to Jim on his bed and when Jim wakes up he quickly stands up and gets bitten by the snakes mate. It's not until this incident occurs that Huck starts to believe in Jim's superstitions.
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ReplyDeleteThroughout their journey Jim and Bucks relationship grows and they are closer than before. Not only because of the new circumstances they're living in but also because all they have is each other. Jim is quite superstitious and believes kn many stories he has read and heard about in the past for example that touching a snake skin can lead to bad luck. Huck on the other hand thinks more realistic. The incident with the snake skin however did make Huck believe in superstition because he got cursed with bad luck after touching the snake skin and just mightactually start listening to Jims superstition stories. -Dominique Briddell
ReplyDeleteIn my point of view, Huck acts like a child, and Jim basically suffers from Huck's actions. Superstition for Jim means somewhat cause and an effect to that cause. For example, Huck puts a dead snake to Jim as a joke but as a cause here comes the snakes mate to bite Jim. Another example could be when Huck and Jim spot a house floating down a river with a dead man in it. Clearly, it was Huck's father, but Jim refuses to let Huck see that. What could this mean? Bad luck? This is Jim and Huck being reminded of their old place and how they are not so far away from where bad things happen. They are aware of this.
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Jim is very superstitious and as you read along. Huck isn't really into the whole substitution thing. Huck and jim are very different characters but once huck touched the snake skin and the mate of the snake bit jim I believe in hucks eyes superstition made a lot of sence only because he didn't know any better
ReplyDelete-Brieanna Gordon
Jim believes heavily in superstitions while huck didn't. He didn't believe until jim told him about the snake superstition. He decided to get a dead snake and put it by his bed then later he gets bitten. Making huck start believing in bad luck and such.
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ReplyDeleteJims life is all about superstition and every move he makes is based on it sometimes bringing him good luck and some times bad luck. I the other hand huck’s beliefs on superstition are not as strong as jim’s. when huck wanted to play a joke on jim he killed a snake . later he put the snake on jims bed but he forgot about it. The snake ends up bitting jim. After that incident huck believes in supperstition. At the end huck listens more to jim’s thought of superstition.
Jim had been affected previously and made him believe in superstition because his father had died when he had caught a dead bird. He believed that such things can cause bad luck. Huck didn't believe on that nonsense since he thought he had luck on his side for having found money. Everything turns around when Huck decides to prank Jim, by killing a snake, and place it on him while he was asleep, as Jim believed that touching snake skin is also bad luck. Jim had woken up and was bit by the dead snakes's mate and that changed Huck's thoughts and considered Jim's belief on superstition.
ReplyDeleteSuperstition can affect people in many ways either in a positive or negative way. Huck sees a snake on the island and he killed it wraps it around Jim. After the snake bit Jim, Huck starts to believe that bad luck will occur after touching the snake skin. They start believing that certain events happen for a reason due to the superstition. Soon superstition will be a factor and Huck stars to second guess his actions.
ReplyDeleteJim somewhat pushes superstition on Huck. Huck believing he has the best of luck, does not acknowledge superstition as much as Jim does. Until Huck decides to pull a simple prank on Jim. Huck kills a snake and places it on the fast asleep Jim. Jim wakes to a bite and soon after Huck begins to believe in superstition.
ReplyDelete-Anthony Nathan Flores
Jim and Huck have their own point of view of superstition, but as their journey continues, Huck starts to believe in superstition in Jim's point of perspective. - Christian Ordonez
ReplyDeleteJim's overwhelming beliefs in superstitions, causes his life to be carefully planned out to avoid unnecessary bad luck. For instance, if a man owns a beehive and that man dies, if the bees did not get informed before sunset, they would quit work and die. Huck takes advantage of Jim's strict belief in superstition he decides to play a seemingly harmless prank. He finds a rattle snake while gathering tobacco and curls it on Jim's blanket. Forgetting that it was there and that a snake will come and curl around its dead mate, Jim gets bitten on his heal. After the experience Huck starts to take Jim's beliefs seriously.
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Jim beliefs too much in superstitions. In Chapter 10 Jim tries to explain to Huck that if he touches a snake with his hand is bad luck. Huck plays a prank. Jim gets bitten by a snake Huck found.Thanks to what happen Huck considers more what Jim told him about not touching snakes. Jim and Huck's superstition are high.Now both of them take superstitions seriously and they are careful with everything they do.
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Jim heavily believes in superstition since his father had died after catching a dead bird. While Jim explains to Huck it is bad luck to touch a snake with his had, Huck doesn't seem to think much of it. So Huck basically being Huck decides play a prank on jim by killing a snake and placing it on his bed. While this joke was meant to be harmless fun the snake mate comes into Jims bed and bites him on the heel. After this prank gone wrong Huck actually decides to take Jims superstitious beliefs seriously.
ReplyDeleteHuck doesnt believe in it yet fin does.Fin believes that if Huck touches a snake with his hand he will have bad luck.Huck uses that to his advantage to pull kind of a prank on fin since he knows that fin believes in it a lot he wanted to prove him wrong he kills a snake and puts in fins bed night a snake ends up biting fin and so huck end up wondering if fin was actually right
ReplyDeleteThere are many people in the world who have superstitious beliefs. Superstitions will either help or hurt you in your life. A positive affect is making you more aware of the, so you pay closer attention to the little things that others will overlook, but the negative affect is never good. For example, since Huck didn't really believe in superstitions, he decided to disregard Jim's bad luck advice about touching a snake with your bare hands. Huck's prank went bad when the snake's mate bites Jim. Since that moment Huck realized he should have listened to Jim and having superstitious beliefs are not as bad as they may seem. So he is now more aware with everything that he does.
ReplyDeleteAs its shown in these chapters, Jim really believes in superstition. He believes that if you touch the skin of a rattle snake you will get bad luck. Huck does try to to play a prank on Jim, because of him ignorance but it does not go as planned. In the beginning Huck does not believe in superstition, but throughout the chapters he starts listening to Jim superstition beliefs.
ReplyDeleteJim is a big superstition believer, and at first, Huck didn't believe what Jim would tell him. For example, Jim told Huck that if he touched a rattlesnakes' skin with his bare hands he would get bad luck. However, Huck does not listen and he kills the snake and plays a prank on Jim. He put the dead snake and put it on the foot of Jim's blanket and to their surprise, the dead snakes' mate was there and bit Jim on the heel. Ever since that happened, Huck realizes that Jim's superstition was right and he is now careful with everything he does.
ReplyDeleteAlready knowing that Jim believes in superstition, Huck sees that as a joke but somehow it intrigues him a bit. Jim had told him about touching a snakes skin and instantly you get bad luck, later then Huck kills a snake while Jim was sleeping .So now Jim doesn't seem that much of an unimportant person to Huck.
ReplyDeleteIn these chapters superstition plays a big role in Jim's life which is mainly the reason he acts the way he is. on the other hand superstition doesn't not play much of a role at all in Huck's life until him he begins to believe some. Jim tells Huck that it is bad for him to touch a snake with his hands, but Huck not believing Jim tries to pull a prank on Jim. Jim eds up getting bitten by a snake which cause Huck to start believing Jim.
ReplyDeleteHuck and Jim speak of superstition throughout there time on the island. I believe that all the superstiton affects Jim more than Huck, because Huck just goes along with these superstitions because the first one came to be true. For example the first one brought up was the one of the birds bringing rain in chapter 8 page 47 the book states. " Some young birds come along, flying a yard or two at a time and lighting. Jim said it was a sign it was going to rain."
ReplyDeleteLater on in chapter IX page 51 the book states. " Pretty soon it darkened up and begun to thunder and lighten; so the birds was right about it. Directly it begun to rain, and it rained like all fury, too, and I never see the wind blow so." Ever since then Huck began to believe most the superstition Jim told him. Superstition affects Jim life because he makes some of his decesions off of superstition. For example the one about the birds bringing rain. If jim didn't know about that superstition Jim probably would of lost all of there traps and everything on the canoe would of gotten wet. Therefore without the superstition of the birds they wouldn't have camped in the cavern and saved all of there stuff.
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ReplyDeleteJim, has this thory, that if you touch a snake's skin you'll get bad luck. Huck didn't belive Jim's superstition. So he goes ahead and touches a snake's skin to prove he won't get bad luck. After he touches the snake, he decides to pull a prank on Jim while he sleeps. He kills a snake, and puts it next to Jim, so he'll see it when he awakens. While Huck does that, the snake's mate digs his fangs into Huck's ankle, and makes him belive what Jim had said.
ReplyDeleteJim has a superstitious look he believes everything that happens has a reason for it. Unlike Huck, he doesnt belive in superstition. Jim told Huck that if he feet while he was asleep. Then the snake' bites Jim in the heel. After that, Huck began to believe in superstition tool. Jim influenced Huck to belive in superstition.
ReplyDelete-Hillary Ramirez
Superstition affects jim's thoughts a lot he tells Huck if he touches a snakes skin he'll have bad luck. Huck in the other hand doesn't believe in those stuff so he decides to make a joke out of it by killing a snake and putting the dead snake in the foot of jim's bed but the snakes mate cones and bites Huck in revenge from then on it changes Jim's view on superstition-Geraldine Morales
ReplyDeleteHuck and Jim both have superstitious beliefs. Jim has this belief about snakes skin. He says if you were to touch snake skin with your hands you will get bad luck but Jim wasn't really thinking about bad luck since he found money. Huck thought it would be a good idea to pull a prank on his friend by killing a snake and putting it by Jim when he is asleep, which he did do. The funny idea went wrong when the mate of the snake that Huck killed bit Jim. Therefore Huck starts to think maybe Jim's superstition is actually true.
ReplyDeleteAshley Maiden
Jim heavily believes heavily on superstitions, while Huck doesn't believe in superstitions at all that is until he sees a snake skin and decides to touch it diregarding the fact that Jim clearly warned him that if he ever touched a snakes' skin it would be bad luck. Huck decided that after touching a snakes skin,to pull a prank on Jim by killing a snake and placing it where Jim was sleeping,later on they decided to go to sleep as soon as they went they slept Jim was bit in the heel by the dead snakes partner. After that Huck started believing in superstitions. Jaime Balderrama
ReplyDeleteSuperstition is a way of thinking in which one believes that events can link together without any given reason. In this case, superstition leads a big part of Jim's life while Huck is still doubtful about it. Jim warns Huck that touching a snake with his bare hands is very bad luck. On the contrary to what Jim says and being as hard-headed as he is, Huck doesn't believe him and decides to pull a prank on Jim by curling a dead snake next to his feet. Lo and behold,a snake mate bites Jim which results in Huck becoming more cautious.
ReplyDeleteSuperstition is, in a certain perspective, "goofy". In huck's veiw, jim takes simple and out of the blue things to an unnessisary level. Such as touching the snake skin. Yet in other cases Huck goes and abides by the social conduct of some superstition. Huck talks about spilling the salt at breakfast. He tries to throw it over his shoulder to keep off the bad luck but Miss Watson is there and won't let him. It plays a big part in seeing someone as different but not really being so different yourself.
ReplyDeleteTwo examples that Jim gives to Huck throughout the chapters are the snakeskin and the dead man. Huck does not believe in superstition much and Jim has a strong belief in it because he believes in coeincidence, or something like karma. After Jim tells Huck about snakeskin being bad luck, Huck plants a dead snake next to Jim while he is sleeping, as a prank. Another snake, the mate of the dead snake, comes and bites Jim, after he is scared/awoken from the dead one. This makes Hucks belief in superstition arise and gives him more of a reason to be cautious in what Jim tells him. The way Jim described the dead man haunting Huck, made more sense to Huck because it was more believable, and seemed more likely. That is why Huck accepts it more easily.
ReplyDeleteJim’s superstition affected Huck greatly. But Huck, being the non believer that he is, didn’t pay much attention to the warnings and the consequences that Jim stressed. As a prank, Huck decided to test Jim’s superstitious theories by wrapping a dead snake skin around Jim’s feet. What Huck didn’t know was the snakes mate came by and bit Jim. Huck started to feel sorry for the bad luck that he gave Jim, which made Huck go from a non believer to a believer and Jim continues to be a strong believer.
ReplyDelete-Carlos Aceves
jim centers most of his way of life through superstition. as the book progresses, huck leter starts to "believe" in superstition. A great example that shows us the superstition of both characters is when jim wraps the snake around hucks foot. but instead the one who got the bed luck was jim because later the snakes mate came and bit jim. huck later realized or thought that he gave jim the bad luck and he was more careful with his actions and his sayings. therefore, after that "prank", huck started to believe more in superstition.
ReplyDeleteJim is the kind of person who highly believes in superstitions, this can also enroll by the fact he believes in how touching or getting touch by a snake skins is bad luck. On the other hand Huck doesn't believe Jim because of the money they both founded on the overcoat, But after Huck trying to play a prank to Jim, and this makes a snake skin have contact with Jim, this event convinces and makes Huck believe Jim and superstition throughout the chapters.
ReplyDelete-Susana Franco
Jim seems to believe heavily in superstition, he believes that touching snake skin is bad luck. During there time on the island Huck believes that there is no such thing as bad luck. He sees snake skin eeand decides to touch it. He then finds a snake and decides to kill it and wrap it around Jim's leg as a prank, but the mate of the dead snake bites Jim on the heel. This makes Huck believe in bad luck .
ReplyDeleteJim believes very highly in superstition, because he can relate to it. Jim tell Huck '' that if you have hairy arms, one day you'll be rich.'' Hucks then asks if Jim has ever been rich, and Jim answers yes. Jim also says that if young birds or chickens come flying, a yard or two, that that's a sign that it's gong to rain. Sure enough Jim was right, that night when they get to the cave it rains.
ReplyDelete-Emily Sierra
jim believing in superstition effects his whole life and how he lives it, and since jim and huck have been to together he's gotten in hucks head about superstition. when jim talks about the birds and then it rained when they got to the cave, plus what happened to the snake.
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