Who is silas phelps in huck finn

He was the innocentest, best old soul I ever see. But it warn't surprising; because he warn't only just a farmer, he was a preacher, too, and had a little one-horse log church down back of the plantation, which he built it himself at his own expense, for a church and schoolhouse, and never charged nothing for his preaching, and it was worth it, too.

There was plenty other farmer-preachers like that, and done the same way, down South. Don't these seem like nice folks? They're hospitable, too. When Sally sees Tom playing "Sid" coming down the road, she says "Why, I do believe it's a stranger… put on another plate for dinner" She doesn't even wait to find out who it is to start feeding him.

Talk about Southern hospitality! Unfortunately, they also embrace the South's tradition of slavery. So we're left feeling a little confused. Already have an account? Sign in. From the creators of SparkNotes, something better. Literature Poetry Lit Terms Shakescleare. Download this LitChart! Teachers and parents! Struggling with distance learning?

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The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Aunt Sally cannot even recoqnize her own newphew and welcomes Huck with open arms -"She grabbed me and hugged me tight; and then gripped me by both hands, and shook and shook; and the tears come in her eyes, and run down over" When Tom arrives to help Huck, he pretends to be Sid, another one of her newphews, and together they start stealing supplies from the unsuspecting aunt.

To cover their theft up they play all sorts of tricks and pranks on her including; taking items like sheets, spoons, and pies away and putting them back again so she thinks she is always miscounting things; letting snakes and rats loose in house so she gets distracted, etc. At one point when Huck pretends to find a lost spoon , Aunt Sally thinks she has things figured out - "It's just as I suspected.

So you had it in your pocket all the time; and like as not you've got the other things there, too.