I continued today to provided detailed instruction on how plot, and setting contribute to the overall meaning of the novel. Regarding plot, we addressed how Huck's apparent deaths and rebirths throughout the novel represent a rebirth of a new character with morals that diverge from the ethos of "civilization." In that regard we contrasted how the events that drive the plot while Huck and Jim are on land involve violence, fraud, and greed. By contrast, we studied the Edenic setting on the raft . We last noted the motif of Death as an ironic tool of salvation as Huck thwarts the conmen's plot to steal by hiding the gold in the casket which later is exhumed in a cemetery scene where Huck escapes.