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2.11.11 The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Chapter 11- 43 Analysis Chapter 11 "I reckon I shook like a leaf, and I didn't know hardly what to do." (cite here) The author in this simile uses a leaf to describe Huck?s Fear when his whole little girl charade is a bust. Huck has proven in the novel, due to the fact of mostly growing up in the woods, that he is very ?street smart? which probably gives rise to the fact that he?s so nervous. Not to mention he?s helping a runaway slave; which currently gives him this extreme inner guilt at times. Chapter 13 so we struck for an island, and hid the raft, and sunk the skiff, and turned in and slept like dead people. (cite here)