When the action of the novel takes place on land, the events are darker. For exsample,Huck stays a while with the grangerfords, a family involved in a long family feud with the Shepherdsons . The feud escalates and ends in slaughter. On the river,life iscooperative and compassionate. Huck says "It would a been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft,for what you want ,above all things, on a raft, is for everybody to be satisfied, and feel right and kind toward the other".