Huck Finn blog post 3

     In the book Huck Finn, the Grangersons are in a feud with the Shepherdsons is very similar to the book Romeo and Juliet.  When the Grangersons are fighting with the Shepherdsons they don't just fight, they kill.  With the Montagues and the Capulets they fight each other and one ends up dying.  "Well,’ says Buck, ‘a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man’s brother kills HIM; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the COUSINS chip in— and by and by everybody’s killed off, and there ain’t no more feud. But it’s kind of slow, and takes a long time"(Twain 151).  They kill until everyone is dead.  They feel that killing everybody will solve their problems.  Solving their problems just by getting rid of everybody  else.  In Romeo and Juliet they also thought that violence was a way to solve their issues.  Killing the entire family was how they got rid of a single issue that started off between two people.
      In Huck Finn Harney Shepherdson and Sophia Grangerson ran off together even though their families hated each other.  They were secretly talking to each other and seeing each other behind their families back.  They were not supposed to be doing this because their families were in a feud with each other.  They would have found this unacceptable.  ‘Well, den, Miss Sophia’s run off! ‘deed she has. She run off in de night some time — nobody don’t know jis’ when; run off to get married to dat young Harney Shepherdson, you know — leastways, so dey ‘spec. De fambly foun’ it out ‘bout half an hour ago — maybe a little mo’ — en’ I TELL you dey warn’t no time los’(158).  In Romeo and Juliet they would sneak around and see each other with our their families finding out.  They were not allowed to see each other.  Both families were in a feud with each other and could not accept that their children ran off and were never seen again just because they didn't like each other.  They know they would have been in a huge amount of trouble if their families found out about their relationship.  
     The sadness is in both of these stories.  In Huck Finn he lost a friend because of the feud.  In Romeo and Juliet the families lost them because of their feud.  During the feud in Huck finn, Huck lost his friend Buck.  The Grangersons shot him and he was killed.  "When I got down out of the tree I crept along down the river bank a piece, and found the two bodies laying in the edge of the water, and tugged at them till I got them ashore; then I covered up their faces, and got away as quick as I could. I cried a little when I was covering up Buck’s face, for he was mighty good to me" (161).  In Romeo and Juliet the families lost them.  They never made up and had to continue their feud which ended up with two people dead.  Its sad they all of these families had to loose loved ones just because they couldn't settle and make up with each other.