Contemplation

Somewhere defined as a long look at the real. I need to find that quote.

I'm including here the contemplative thoughts of Huck, which of course I'm projecting onto Huck, but which I also firmly believe in when a person notices what is usually something ordinary as extraordinary.


Chapter 7:

In Chapter 7, Huck has completed his bloody escape designed to fool everyone into thinking he has been murdered, and is floating down the river to his destination Jackson Island in a canoe he found.
"I laid there and had a good rest and a smoke out of my pipe, looking away into the sky, not a cloud in it. The sky looks ever so deep when you lay down on your back in the moonlshine; I never knowed it before."

Also, as he is floating down the river, "Everything was dead quiet, and it looked late, and smelt late." (Twain's italics). It is another example of Huck's sense of the world, that lateness smells.

He also notices, in general, throughout his voyage down the river, that he can really hear well on the river. The acoustics over water.

Chapter 8:

Huck describes Jackson island and the river, which 'always looks pretty on a summer morning'. There are descriptions of leaves and spots of sunshine. How is it that a boy of this simple mind notices and describes beauty? Is it normal for a boy of this age to describe the beauty of nature, much less to even notice it?
Or how about this: "I see a bunch of smoke laying on the water a long ways up.."? He notices that the smoke is not just in the air, but laying on the water. What an image!

Chapter 9:

Huck's describes the storm. P98.