We discussed textual examples of Huck's moral development and tied this progress to the symbolic significance of the river(vs town or the land).I noted how only on the river can Huck create a moral code of his own distinct from society's evidenced as he refuses to report Jim as a run away slave and attempts to rescue a band of thieves and murderers stranded on a wrecked steamboat. Nina did very well in explaining how the relationship between Huck and Jim is developing into a father-son relationship notwithstanding the racial divide. We located specific examples of Jim's fatherly concern for Huck ,notwithstanding (as Nina pointed out) that Huck remains rather childish in his pranks at Jim's expense. Relative to Huck's character development, I addressed the "rebirth " motif as now, for a second time in the novel ,Jim thinks Huck is dead and is surprised when Huck "reappears". Although Jim exclaims Huck is "the same ol Huck", we discussed that, in fact , a new Huck Finn arrives after each "death" . Last, we continued to identify examples of the novel's satire of religion.