chp. 18-22

These chapters continue to show the differences between the "civilized" world and the "wild". I think Twain is trying to show that even though we consider people who live in towns and in houses and have money civilized they really are not. The difference between how people interact with each other on the river and in a "civilized" community is obvious in these chapters. The Duke and Dauphin were able to ban together peaceful with each other and then they joined Jim and Huck and all the men were able to work together in a decent and peaceful way. However, Huck witnessed another man getting shot when they reached "civilization". I think the reason for this is that there are less people on the river so they have to stick together and help each other in order to survive. But on the land there are more people so their survival tactic is to basically kill each other.