Life on the Raft and Life on Land

Throughout the novel, Huck spends about an equal amount of time both on and off the raft. When he is on the raft, the world is quiet and there is hardly anything exciting going on. Occasionally a steamboat will go by and Huck will watch it, but other than observing there is not much action. Sometimes Huck will teach Jim something about the bible or tease him and tell him something was imaginative when it was really real, like that one time during the night when they were separated and it was foggy. However on land, it is like someone turned up the excitement on Huck and he proceeds to go on sometype of an adventure. His curiosity takes him into people's lives, sometimes on the verge of death and sometimes meeting new friends. As for other people, on the raft, the people he meets are either runaways and are in some type of trouble or are just passing by on another "floating devise". On land, the people he meets are usually not the nicest and are after him, or they just think Huck is someone he is not because of the different identity Huck gives himself. Huck is very comfortable with big crowds of people and can always find a way to escape trouble.