Huckleberry Finn ch 16-18

These chapters show the differences Twain makes between life on the river and life on land. While on the river people are nice and helpful with eachother to a certain degree whereas on land people are always trying to take advantage of eachother or just kill one another. On the river when Huck said that his dad was on the raft and they needed help the men immediatly went to help and only stopped when they thought that he had smallpox, and they still left forty dollars for him. If this had happened on the shore they would have killed him and taken evrything he had on him, plus the raft. This is just one more example of Twains differentiating between how people act in the "wild" and how people act in civilization.