The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
find 5 times that Huck and Tom disagree on the escape plan in?
ch. 35
ch. 35
Tom plans an escape that makes no sense; he "invents the difficulties."
“Blame it, this whole thing is just as easy and awkward as it can be. And so it makes it so rotten difficult to get up a difficult plan. There ain’t no watchman to be drugged—now there OUGHT to be a watchman. There ain’t even a dog to give a sleeping-mixture to. And there’s Jim chained by one leg, with a ten-foot chain, to the leg of his bed: why, all you got to do is to lift up the bedstead and slip off the chain. And Uncle Silas he trusts everybody; sends the key to the punkin-headed nigger, and don’t send nobody to watch the nigger. Jim could a got out of that window-hole before this, only there wouldn’t be no use trying to travel with a ten-foot chain on his leg. Why, drat it, Huck, it’s the stupidest arrangement I ever see. You got to invent ALL the difficulties.
Huck;
“What do we WANT of a saw? Hain’t we got to saw the leg of Jim’s bed off, so as to get the chain loose?” “What do we need a SAW for? Aren’t we going to have to saw the leg off Jim’s bed so we can get the chain loose?”
Tom;
“Why, you just said a body could lift up the bedstead and slip the chain off.”
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Tom;
"It’s brilliant, Huck. I wish there was a moat around this cabin. If we have time on the night of the escape, we’ll dig one."
Huck;
“Why do we want there to be a moat if we’re trying to sneak out from under the cabin?”
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The rope ladder;
But there’s one thing—he can have a rope ladder; we can tear up our sheets and make him a rope ladder easy enough. And we can send it to him in a pie; it’s mostly done that way. And I’ve et worse pies.”
“Why, Tom Sawyer, how you talk,” I says; “Jim ain’t got no use for a rope ladder.”
“He HAS got use for it. How YOU talk, you better say; you don’t know nothing about it. He’s GOT to have a rope ladder; they all do.”
“What in the nation can he DO with it?”
S’pose he DON’T do nothing with it? ain’t it there in his bed, for a clew, after he’s gone? and don’t you reckon they’ll want clews? Of course they will. And you wouldn’t leave them any? That would be a PRETTY howdy-do, WOULDN’T it! I never heard of such a thing.”
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