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English, 06.10.2021 09:20 mparra4761

"The pipe dropped from the fingers of the Red-Handed (Huck), and he slept the sleep of the conscience-free and the weary. The Terror of the Seas (Joe) and the Black Avenger of the Spanish Main (Tom) had more difficulty in getting to sleep. They said their prayers inwardly, and lying down, since there was nobody there with authority to make them kneel and recite aloud; in truth they had a mind not to say them at all, but they were afraid to proceed to such lengths as that, lest they might call down a sudden and special thunderbolt from Heaven. Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep-but an intruder came, now, that would not "down." It was conscience. They began to feel a vague fear that they had been doing wrong to run away; and next they thought of the stolen meat, and then the real torture came. They tried to argue it away by reminding conscience that they had purloined sweetmeats and apples scores of times; but conscience was not to be appeased by such thin plausibilities; it seemed to them, in the end, that there was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only "hooking," while taking bacon and hams and such valuables was plain simple stealing - and there was a command against that in the Bible. So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing. Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep." (chapter XIII) Using information from this quote, and anything else you know about Huck, Joe, and Tom, write a clear concise essay in which you discuss what Twain means by calling Tom and Joe "curiously inconsistent pirates."

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