How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
And there was the ferryboat full of people floating along down. I knowed what was the matter now. "Boom!" I see the white smoke squirt out of the ferryboat's side. You see, they was firing cannon over the water, trying to make my carcass come to the top. (8.2)
Huck and Jim’s superstitions are the result of their environment; such beliefs are the norm, not the exception.
Quote #8
"Doan' hurt me – don't! I hain't ever done no harm to a ghos'. I alwuz liked dead people, en done all I could for 'em. You go en git in de river agin, whah you b'longs, en doan' do nuffn to Ole Jim, 'at 'uz awluz yo' fren'." (8.24)
Jim and Tom are similar in their reaction to seeing Huck after his supposed death.
Quote #9
So we went over to where the canoe was, and while he built a fire in a grassy open place amongst the trees, I fetched meal and bacon and coffee, and coffee-pot and frying-pan, and sugar and tin cups, and the n***** was set back considerable, because he reckoned it was all done with witchcraft. (8.40)
Jim’s superstitious beliefs are powerful enough to contend with what he sees with his own two eyes.