Kings and Dukes

As Huck and Jim wander away from the short lived common life that Huck had lived, they pick up two strangers who call themselves the long lost King of France (I think) and a long lost Duke of that area as well. This adds a lot of things to the novel because it creates a class system to the novel and integrates a feel of Romanticism in the way Huck mentions them as the King and the Duke instead of by their actually names. It also takes us back to the scene where Jim and Huck discuss Kings and what they both think about them and the thought process has changed about Kings, especially for Jim. He saw Kings as a noble class, someone who has power and the ability to control, but he meets this king who he calls out as a low down beggar. And going back to the changing class system, Jim is taken down a few more notches to being instructed to act like a savage to keep people away instead of being able to act like himself. He is degraded even more because Huck doesn't even feel the need to inform him that these two people are not even royalty but Huck decides to let Jim keep being fooled instead of telling him the truth.