se the word 'beautiful' six times previously in description of the Grangerfords has evaporated. He attends church with the family and notices all the Grangerfords keep their guns close by.Huck thinks it "was pretty ornery preaching"(121), but the feuding patriarchy praises the good values listed by the Preacher. The hypocritical mixture of guns and sermons, holy talk and bloodthirstiness make it "one of the roughest Sundays [Huck] had run across yet"(121). He now questions the motives of everyone in the household, including Miss Sophia as she sends him to the church on an errand. By this point, the cynical, sarcastic Twain and the disillusioned Huck are of one mind. Huck walks among a group of hogs who have sought the coolness of the church and notes "most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different"(122 The narration of Huck's final day with the Grangerfords is prefaced by: "I don't want to talk much about the next day"(124). For Huck's easy-going fluid dialogue to become stilted and censored, the reader knows the young boy has been hurt. A senseless fatal feud is not the only tragedy depicted through the events of that day, also shown is the heartbreak of a young boy who loses every vestige of the hopeful trust he put in a father, brothers and sisters. Huck is shocked to hear the fatherless, brotherless Buck complain he had not managed to kill his sister's lover on an earlier occasion. And then from his perch in the tree, Huck hears Buck's murderers "singing out, 'Kill them, kill them!' It made [Huck] so sick [he] most fell out of the tree"(127). He wishes he "had not come ashore that night, to see such things"(127). The end of chapter nineteen, when Huck returns to the raft and Jim, almost exactly mirrors the end of chapter eighteen. Both chapter conclude with Huck enjoying a good meal with good company in a cool, comfortable place. First, it is with the Grangerfords in the cool, high-ceilinged area in t...
