First Huckleberry Response

"He said he reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shotgun, maybe, but he didn't know no other way."

The pap in this previous chapter (V,) has obviously shown that he is a drunk still. He has stolen Huck's dollar to buy whiskey, an dhe has ended up injail on a "drunken spree." Throughout the return of Pap, Huck is scared. He used to be beat by him even when he wasn't drunk. After this drunk incident, Pap is sent to stay with the judge-hopefully to beome a chnaged man, but it doesn't seem to work.

"Everybody said it was a real beautiful oath, and asked Tom if he got it out of his own head. He said, some of it, but the rest was out of pirate-books and robber-books, and every gang that was high-toned had it." (P.19)

Now that they are starting the gang, and what they expect out of it, you see the group of kids do not really know what they are getting into. Obviously, Huck is influenced by what he reads, and now shares it with the whole gang. I thinkt his line might be of some foreshadowing that because he doesn't know much, and they are all talking tough about what to do, that somethign real bad could end up happening to the group of them.