Rats and Snakes

Huck and Tom's continuing plan to get Jim out of slavery just gets better and better, when it mixes with the picturesque ideas that the two boys have. Adding more fantasy to Tom's ideas, and books, he decides to add more creativity to the "grand escape". They make a mockery out of slavery, out of Jim (a human being) being held captive. This is the crude reality of he world at the time, but these there characters don,t see this way in the moment they are living. The boys are not fully aware of the seriousness of this matter, as Twain really did, and so contrasts this thought and situation with a more picturesque scene. Adding classic prisoner animals to Jim's shed, is an example of this.