Tom Sawyer’s aunt and uncle, respectively, who are both good people and parents, upstanding members of their community, and yet who troublingly support the institution of slavery, exemplified by their detainment of Jim. Huck and Tom trick the Phelpses when preparing for Jim’s escape, much to Aunt Sally’s fury and Uncle Silas’s innocent befuddlement. Aunt Sally offers to adopt Huck at the end of the novel, but he refuses to be “sivilized” by anyone.
Sally and Silas Phelps Quotes in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Chapter 43
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But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before.
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Sally and Silas Phelps Quotes in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn quotes below are all either spoken by Sally and Silas Phelps or refer to Sally and Silas Phelps. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 43
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But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before.
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