What is the secret about Jim that Tom knows from his arrival but doesn't tell unti the end, aftet the escape attempt?
What is the secret that Jim knows about Pap?
2007-02-05 11:33:53 · 3 answers · asked by Melli 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Jim knew that Tom's Pap was dead,
After Jim's recapture, events quickly resolve themselves. Tom's aunt Polly arrives, and reveals Huck and Tom's true identities. Tom announces that Jim is and has been free for months -- Although Miss Watson died two months earlier and freed Jim in her will, Tom chose not to reveal Jim's freedom in order to go ahead with his scheme to break Jim from captivity. Similarly, Jim tells Huck, that Huck's father, the frightening drunkard, Pap, has been dead for some time and that Huck may therefore now return safely to St. Petersburg. In the final narrative, Huck announces that he is quite glad to be done writing his story, and that although Tom's Aunt Sally plans to "sivilize" him, Huck himself intends to flee West.
2007-02-05 11:50:03 · answer #1 · answered by Carlene W 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jim knows that the man that was found on the raft was Huck's dad and he doesn't tell him until later in the book.
2007-02-05 11:39:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are cousins
2007-02-05 11:49:30 · answer #3 · answered by mark s 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋