How does Tom differentiate between stealing the spoons, shirt, knives and sheet and the watermelon that Huck took?
CH 34-38
Tom believes that their criminal intentions and "outlaw/Robin Hood" status justifies the stealing of the spoons, sheets...
He said we was representing prisoners; and prisoners don't care how they get a thing so they get it, and nobody don't blame them for it, either. It ain't no crime in a prisoner to steal the thing he needs to get away with, Tom said; it's his right...
Tom finds the stealing of the watermelon unnecessary. It lacks any excitement or criminal element. Huck fails to see Tom's bizarre logic: to Huck, stealing is stealing.
