"I hadn’t had a bite to eat since yesterday, so Jim he got out some corn-dodgers and buttermilk, and pork and cabbage and greens—there ain’t nothing in the world so good when it’s cooked right—and whilst I eat my supper we talked and had a good time. . . .We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft." -Huckleberry Finn
There are many mundane passages in Huckleberry Finn that have a huge importance behind the simplicity. This one illustrates the underlying disgust Huck has for society. He just got away from the Grangerford and Shepherdson dispute and he's starting to have less faith in the rules of society.
I like what you told us about how listening to the book being read out loud in class made it more understandable for you...the accents probably made the story come alive.
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