huck post 4

Huck and Tom are together and are presented with the challenge to free Jim.  Jim is supposedly locked in a shed by a master that captured him as a runaway.  Huck and Tom then devise a plan to rescue Jim. Huck comes up with a simple and effective plan, but Tom doesn't agree with it.  Of coarse Tom wants to make the mission unnecessarily risky.  Tom comes up with plans that are just plain stupid.  For example, digging for Jim with knives, baking a 'rope' pie, and so on.  

At this point Huck has realized that this is wrong.  However, he feels it is the right thing to do if it means freeing Jim, his best friend.  Huck earlier that if Tom does something than Huck wants to do the same, regardless if it means "going to hell".  This becomes ironic because at the point in the story when Huck and Tom are going to rescue Jim Huck knows he is doing something wrong.  Still he is shocked that Tom is helping him doing something bad.  Although Huck knows that he is doing something bad he still sees Tom as kind of a bad person for doing something bad.