How do the events in this chapter characterize raftsmen?
In the first couple of sentences of the book they are in a boat and they see a raft right behind them. The raft that they see is 'monstrous' and is holding most likely 30 men. The rafts men was using long sweeps or long oars that were used to steer or propelling the craft. The raft that was behind them in the beginning of the chapter was very large, had wigwams and had an open campfire in the middle. The raftsmen were being very obnoxious by yelling at each other. Another observation that I made about raftsmen would be that when Huck lied about his family being on board and them having smallpox. The people on the raft in front of them have fights and then later in the night just totally get over it. This shows how they truly don't care about it and how easily they get over it.
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