Chapter XXXI Recently, we received a milk machine that is remarkably like Huck. The similarities are amazing, and will help show the character development of Huck as well as what Mark Twain was trying to uncover with his book. "All right then, I'll go to hell" is what somebody walking up to the milk machine in "A" lunch might say, but so does Huck on page 206. The student wants to make the point that he is willing to turn his $1.25 into a chocolate milk that is the same exact brand and flavor as could be bought just 3 feet to the left, in a quantity of about half as much for one-fifth the cost. Huck is just like the student, willing to turn his soul ($1.25) over for his black friend (chocolate milk). "I can walk [40 miles] in three days"(pg. 209). What? Three days to go 40 miles? I could do that in 6 hours. Mark Twain must have had Huck eating a few too many Twinkies and not enough trips to the milk machine. Chapter XXXII How many flavors do you think the milk machine gives us? How many flavors of Huck does Mark Twain give us? Mr. Mark Twain here gives us yet another choice of Huck Finn to pick from. This time it's a nephew of a complete stranger, who is relieved that only a black was killed in a fictitious steamboat explosion and is thankful nobody got hurt, but don't worry, that's not racist. Chapter XXXIII "I hain't ever done you no harm"(pg. 216). See that, Mark "Tricky" Twain is at it again, pulling a double negative. What that quote really translates to is "I have done you harm". This is directly from Tom Sawyer's mouth, somebody Huck trusted, befriended and idled, to Huck. I think Huck realizes how nasty the Root Beer flavored milk is now, or does he? He doesn't seem to catch the double negative that Tom used. They resolved their differences, Huck is now alive (and this time, it's the plain white-flavored, normal milk/Huck (he's even a guy! (Triple parenthesis!))) and it's all good. Chapter XXIV "We stopped talking"(pg. 223). Not a whole lot to say about that. Chapter XXXV "You got to invent all the difficulties." I like Tom's ideology. He's just like some of the milk men who put in the worst flavors for no other reason than to make me mad: just like Silas Phelps didn't put any security in to make Tom mad. In response to Tom's suggestion to cut Jim's leg off, Huck replies "why, there ain't no necessity for it." See this, another double negative. We're seeing the dark side of Huck here, while Mark Twain plays all innocent. We know your tricks; you're not fooling anybody. Chapter XXXVI People should be chanting "XXXVI" with the beat "XX, XVI". My prediction is that they won't, but it has a nice chant-rhythm. Let's see if I'm right: and I am. I must admit I cheated though, I asked the empty bottle of milk (hey, if they used a hairball, why not?). "Gimme a case-knife."(pg. 237) What he should be asking for is a juggling knife, then he could whip out his mad sKiLlZ and cut Jim's chains while performing a Mill's Mess, after all, he does like to be original and make things more difficult than they need to be, am I wrong here? I didn't think so, either. "I wouldn' lay de wweight er my finger on um, not f'r ten hund'd thous'n billion dollars, I wouldn't."(pg. 241). Do you have any idea how many milks you could buy from our new milk machine for that? 800,000,000,000,000! I think it's worth the weight of a finger, I know I'd do it. Sure beats washing dishes at a hair above minimum wage. Chapter XXXVII "Tom dropped the pewter spoon in Uncle Silas's coat pocket"(pg. 241). I didn't know they had computers back then. "Missus, dey's a sheet gone."(pg. 243). "A sheet gone! Well, what for the land's sake!"(pg. 243) and the world slowly comes to a halt… After clamoring about a sheet for a much longer-than-deserved time, I have concluded that these people (and by "these people", I do not intent a racist remark) are highly overstressed and need to chill, relax, go get a milk. They really remind me of the some people who were basically guarding the machine the first day "no, you can't get a milk right now!" they would shout at an unsuspecting student just wanting a nourishing treat before school. "You can't buy one right now!" to add insult to injury, just hanging a poor freshman out to die. "I reckon the world is coming to an end."(pg. 243) In the world where a hairball beats a brain, I guess you can't expect much. Huck really meets some interesting people, I think it has a profound affect upon him. He seems to be caught in a recursively undefined infinite sequence. Chapter XXXVIII "On the scutcheon we'll have a bend or in the dexter base, a saltire murrey in the fess…"(pg. 248). This is a flaw I see with Mark Twain's writings. People always say how great all his lines are and they are hard to improve upon any, then explain to me how one character in his book says "I reckon I knowed that"(pg. 248) and then comes back with a word like "saltire", like that's just something every uneducated boy knows. I've seen this more than once with Twain, so what's the deal? Maybe I just have higher expectations, that's what people always tell me about the milk, too. All the hype for a milk machine did not impress me. Chapter XXXIX It's coming… It's coming… It's here! The next chapter (and the milk machine, with heavily over-priced and over-hyped milk), lots of "X"s in this one. "Jim didn't like the spiders, and the spiders didn't like Jim"(pg. 255). I must agree with Jim on this one, spiders aren't my thing. I don't mind tarantulas and other big "pet" spiders, but normal spiders you see on the walls, I don't like. I'm not sure if they like me or not, let me ask one. S/he must not like me either, s/he gave me the cold-shoulder. I killed it just for that, no respect. My milk talks to me, or at least it better for the price I pay for it. This reminds me of Tom. Wait, no it doesn't. It reminds me of Tom and Huck, because they had the "most amazing stomach ache"(pg. 256) and everybody knows only the "most amazing milk" will cure the "most amazing stomach ache". "Beware. Trouble is brewing. Keep a sharp lookout.- Unknown Friend" (pg. 258). I should just go around saying I have friends, but they're "unknown". Mark went down a few notches with this one. Tom, on the other hand, shows how his imagination still flares like a coronal mass ejection (x-class, naturally). Chapter XL This must be a big chapter. I'm only a medium, I'm not sure I'm ready for this. Well, I'll dive in anyway. "We was feeling pretty good after breakfast" (pg. 259), look how they rub it in the freshman's face, half dead by now from a few chapters ago. They got their milk, why else would they be "pretty good"? This is the kind of detail you would miss if you weren't under the surface, observing the hidden detail Mark Twain leaves for us. "Where's the butter?"(pg. 259) Look how far ahead Mark Twain is in his time, already creating the slogan that would make the infamous commercial with "Where's the beef?" Genius. He raised the bar with this line, and I'm sure many people read that without even thinking of how deep it was. He should have gotten into the milk business, that's where the money is. They have to be making a lot of profit off of poor, innocent school kids just wanting something healthy for a change. I guess Mark Twain did alright though, made a few bucks here and there. Amazing how something written so long ago would be practically plagiarized by a high-profile chain fast-food restaurant. Give credit where it is due. Kudos to you, Mr. Mark Twain. In the midst of greatness, we also have a slight delay with Tom being shot in the leg. Jim's concern with Tom's leg shows his character development, or rather Huck's character development, in that Jim thinks like a white. Chapter XLI We see another quick-witted flavor of Tom, we're going to need another shelf for all of these. When asked about the third passenger, he responds "why, me and Sid, and-and-and the guns"(pg. 263). Way to go, Slick. Chapter XLII "I allowed another walk would do me good; but I couldn't stir." (pg. 272). Can't stir? I prefer my milk shaken anyway, I think this recognizes the importance of the chapter, Huck is troubled with something. "Oh, he's dead, he's dead, I know he's dead!"(pg. 272) "Oh, he's alive, thank God!"(pg. 272). They didn't have much research on spoiled milk back in the day. CHAPTER THE LAST The last chapter of the book, I have my hopes up for a fantastic ending. I was my the last sip of milk to be refreshing, not longing to go waste another $1.25 (of course, you couldn't buy the $.25 milk from the counter because we have a milk machine- it's unwritten law). I like Tom's style, they're going to "waltz [Jim] into town with a torchlight"(pg. 280). Practically everybody is happy now: Huck is happy Pap is dead (because nothing brings greater joy than finding out you are an orphan), Jim is happy because his hairy chest came true (Mark Twain must have had something with hair and fortunes), Tom is happy because he got shot, but I'm still mad because the price for a little thing of milk is almost as much as a gallon of gas. What a rip-off. I bet you the King and the other guy came up with this back then as one of their scams. Too many people have analyzed this book with their brain. Mark Twain did not write this book with his brain, how could somebody analyze it with a different organ than it was written? You're not going to try to drink milk with your liver are you? Mark Twain wrote this from the heart, and that is exactly how this paper analyzed it; deep down within the heart. My thirst has been quenched. Note: These papers were not plagiarized