Chapters 35-38
Examples of Irony
Tom wants Jim to have a rattlesnake, when we know he's deathly afraid of them and he's already been bitten by one in this story - situational/dramatic irony.
"Well if that ain't jjust like you Huck Finn... If we get time, the night of escape we'll dig one," - verbal irony.
When Jim escapes to help them move the grindstone, but then goes back into the shack where he is a prisoner - situational irony.
A Quote from the Reading
"On the scutcheon we'll have a bend or in the... means the more haste the less speed."
This quote just causes me to laugh, because Tom clearly has no clue what any of it means, he's just repeating anything he can remember to sound superior and smart to Huckleberry. Also, I suspect a large portion of it is made up.
Development of one of the Major Themes - Own Identity
During this reading there is a clear line of command - going from Tom, then to Huck, and lastly to Jim. Huck completely loses his identity whenever he is around Tom - it is as if he is a mindless robot ready to heed Tom Sawyer's commands. Jim, on the other hand, resists a little, such as not agreeing to a pet rattlesnake, but overall agrees to the majority of what the two boys decide for him.