What is at the center of Huckleberry Finn chapters 8-11?

1. Chapter 8

1.1. I Spare Miss Watson's Jim

1.2. "Well, I b'lieve you, Huck. I—I RUN OFF." "Jim!" (8.45, 8.46)

1.3. huck and Jim ran off fir the same reason but are they lucky or unlucky

2. Chapter 9

2.1. The house if death floats by

2.2. Jim finds Hucks dad dead and lies to huck about who it was.

2.3. "It's a dead man. Yes, indeedy; naked, too. He's ben shot in de back. I reck'n he's ben dead two er three days. Come in, Huck, but doan' look at his face—it's too gashly." (9.18)

3. Chapter 10

3.1. What comes of Handlin' snake-skin

3.2. Huck is in town dressed as a girl. Jim is wounded because of Huck's prank

3.3. "It's YOU, at last!—AIN'T it?" I out with a "Yes'm" before I thought. (10.8, 10.9)

4. Chapter 11

4.1. They're after us!

4.2. Huck discovers that the town people are after Jim. and Huck has a little trouble with lying and remembering he is a girl.

4.3. "What did you say your name was, honey?" "M—Mary Williams." "Honey, I thought you said it was Sarah when you first come in?" "Oh, yes'm, I did. Sarah Mary Williams. Sarah's my first name. Some calls me Sarah, some calls me Mary." (11.30, 11.31, 11.33, 11.34)