It was an act of sanity, as the author had experienced this event herself. she portrays this through the narrator, she writes it to show the public what she went through,the way she lost her sanity. This is my opinion on this,I hope you do get this correct!
Tom asks Huck to take a shirt from the clothesline which Jim can use as a journal while he is in prison. Huck is surprised, because Jim can't even write.
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look at all of the vocabulary words