Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Dialectical Journal

I got to feeling so mean and so miserable I most wished I was dead.”

Huck kind of conforms to the widows requests and rules. he does not smoke and he wears the clothes she gives him to wear. He also conforms to Miss Watson and does the hourly studies she likes him to do even if he does not want to. He also goes to school and kind of learns to like it. Huck also conforms to Toms requests and commands. He rejects all conformity when he is feeling lonely and feels like he needs to take a break from the world and go and hide out in the woods for a little while.

At the beginning of Huck’s narration, he immediately mentions his previous adventures with Tom Sawyer; by instinctively introducing himself in terms of Tom’s story, Huck demonstrates that he thinks of himself more as a supporting character to Tom’s life than the protagonist to his own. This belief also compels Huck to listen to Tom’s advice. When the Widow Douglas decides to civilize Huck, he initially runs away in disgust, but Tom ultimately convinces him to stay. Huck explains, “But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back,” (1). Tom’s influence outweighs Huck’s instinct to escape civilization, and Huck instead chooses to try to become “respectable” like Tom. Despite Huck’s multiple sets of ideologies, the values he adopts from Tom Sawyer prevail as the most influential and serve as a guide for many of Huck’s

Huck absolutely hated how they are forcing him to follow a bunch of rules. The Widow Douglas teaches Huck the Bible, which he doesn 't mind but he doesn 't like how she 's forcing it on him. One of the rules was Huck was not aloud to smoke. Miss Watson told Huck that he had to get an education. She tried to teach him how to spell but he had no interest. She also gave him lectures on good behavior because she said that 's how he would go to heaven. He told her he didn 't believe that, he thought hell sounded more fun than heaven, so he 'd rather go to hell instead. Even though he doesn 't like either one of the women, he does like Widow Douglas more than Miss Watson. She gave him encouragement even though she had strict rules. And she took care of him, like buying him clothes even though he didn’t want them. Huck respects Widow Douglas because she gives him good advice and is not so harsh on him about certain things. Huck ran away, and they sent Tom to search for him. Tom convinced him to come home, but he still complained about having to wear new clothes and eat only when the bell rang for dinner. He didn 't like their rules because he wasn 't used to it growing up with his Pap. One of the examples is that his Pap forbid him from going to school, yet they want him to be

It has been established that Pap is not fit to be a decent member in society. In fact, Pap does not seem to be able to care for himself. After abandoning Huck for so long, he only returns once he finds out that Huck has a lot of money that Pap is capable of manipulating. When Pap attempts to reclaim his son, he is granted custody but very shortly proves his incapability of being a proper father figure. Therefore, the judge then tries to take Huck back, resulting in Huck’s

Huck’s first encounter with this is when the Widow “[takes him] for her son, and [allows] she would sivilize [him]; but it [is] rough living in the house all the time” (Twain 2). Huck does not enjoy the idea of having to be molded into a prim and proper young man. Huck wants to live free and on his own without having to adhere to a strict lifestyle. This is not quite the case with Huck “on the big river, and nobody to bother [them]” (Twain 29). Huck finds a sense of comfort in getting away from the land in which he once lived as he is now free to become his own person.

As a result, Huck is straightforwardly allowed to be “uncivilized” and independent. Despite being adopted by the kind Widow Douglas and received schooling and religious training that Huck had missed, he still thinks that they do not work with him. He would rather discover the world outside rather than be tied in one place, which is an aspect of self-reliance – the ability to search for himself. Even when he is taken away and hit by his Pap, he does not shout for help but wisely find the gun to shield him from his father’s stick.

From the very beginning of Huck's story, Huck without a doubt states that he did not want to conform to society; "The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me... I got into my old

Throughout their travel, Huck gets a first hand glimpse of how unscrupulous society truly is. In fact, almost all of the people they encounter are either portrayed as foolish or malicious. Two of these characters in particular are the con men, the Duke and the Dauphin. Huck learns the con men are pretending to be the British brothers of the deceased Mr. Wilks in an attempt to steal his fortune. He observes them both as they pretend to be someone they are not while creating a series of lies that society falls for. “...and told the King all about his brother’s last moments, and the King he told it all over again on his hands to the duke … It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.” (Page 165) Huck is disgusted with the dishonesty of the people posing to be wealthy royals, and equally disturbed with the gullibility of the people who are so quick to afford them credibility and special value. This event is the turning point at which we start to see Huck distance himself away from society. While Huck and Jim run from civilization during their journey down the Mississippi River, Huck is once again exposed to the brutal reality of the world. When Huck and Jim get separated, Huck gets caught up in the crossfire between the Shepherdsons and the Grangerford families. Huck observes the blood feud between the families and describes how he wished he never came ashore that night. “The boys jumped for the river—both of them hurt—and as they swum down the current the men run along the bank shooting at them and singing out, “Kill them, kill them!” It made me so sick I most fell out of the tree.” (Page 117) Huck is appalled by this senseless violence and thought of it makes him sick. He once again is exposed to the ugliness of society. Huck’s encounters with these various people start to change his opinion and challenge his

In the first several chapter Huck was living with Miss Watson and Widow Douglas and they tried to teach him right and wrong, they tried to teach him morals. Huck did not agree with how they were attempting to make him a more civilized person, and when his father, Pap, returned Huck no longer had to meet the expectations that Miss Watson and Widow Douglas had set for him. Huck has become

Furthermore, the novel illustrates the unrestricted freedom the river provides through the connection with nature, independence from slavery, and the pair’s relationship. After escaping the clutches of the restrictive lifestyle of Miss Watson and the violent relationship with his father, Huck seeks refuge in the waters surrounding himself with nature, considering it as his home as he proclaims, “...there warn’t no home like the raft…Other places feel so cramped and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft” (Twain 117). As Jim escapes from civilization towards life on the raft where open friendship and freedom that the river provides overcome prejudice against racism and slavery, he grows as an individual as he declares risking his life and freedom for Huck, “my heart wuz mos’' broke bekase you wuz los’, en I didn' k'yer no mo'

Huck on the other hand, is Twain now. Huck has the ability to see the world how it really is; he sees all the corruption and bad morals. He doesn’t judge the world; rather he lets the world judge itself. Huck isn’t a follower anymore. He has the ability to make decisions for himself.

Huck does not very much enjoy the rules enforced by Widow Douglas. He grew up with his pap being ‘uncivilised’, being able to do basically whatever he wanted whenever he wanted, with little to no consequences. When he moved in with the widow, the amount of rules that she had came as a shock to him. In protest of these rules, he finds a way to get out of them, and does so by going to live with his estranged pap. The rules with pap are much more lax than the

I think that Twain uses “Pap” as a symbol for the part of society that lets loose more and doesn’t care how other people view it. Since his father doesn’t follow the ways of society and he does his own thing, even if it’s wrong, Huck believes that he doesn’t have to follow society either, which also has an influence on his moral struggles. The last character that I believe influences Huck’s morals is his friend Tom Sawyer. He and Huck create a band of robbers with 3 other boys in the beginning of the story, and they are willing to kill people to get whatever they came to rob them of, “We aint burglars. That aint no sort of style.

Throughout Huck’s life he managed to find his own form of family. In the beginning of the book he was staying with Widow Douglas, she was much like a mother to Huck. She wanted Huck to be a normal child of the time, but Huck just wanted to be himself the typical good bad boy. He would get tired of living by her rules so he would set out in search of change and adventure. The widow couldn’t bare the thought of losing him, she considered him her own son. “The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she would call me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant any harm by it.”(Page 1) The widow cared deeply for Huck, she only wanted the best. Judge Thatcher was another person that filled a void in Huck’s life, yes he had a father, but Judge Thatcher taught him things that Pap should have. When Huck and Tom received their money Judge Thatcher