Man versus man conflict in huck finn assignment

Later In the book after Hack has already ran away and met up with Jim on the river, ND began their adventure is when the exciting conflicts begin to show up. When Hack and Jim are traveling down stream they later board a large boat to hitch a ride along the river they get into a verbal conflict with the people or the boat. When they tell the people of the boat that they will need off in four or five miles they (the people of the boat) get “ booming mad, and give us (Hack and Jim) a cussing” (Twain 190). The cussing was a harsh verbal beating that the people let out due to their frustration with Hack and Jim.

The cussing on the boat is only a minor example of a verbal conflict between characters, but shows Twain using a variety of conflicts to keep the reader’s interest. As the story progresses the conflicts become more exciting and appealing to the reader. Twain also builds conflicts and stretches them out through different events to build up to a more dramatic or exciting conflict. At one point In the book when Colonel Sherbets hears someone Is talking bad about him and going of town and says if you don’t stop taking about me before noon I will find you and shoot you.