Huck Finn And Huck's The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

This young boy’s name is Huckleberry Finn, and he is brave and yearning for adventure. He begins the story with a newly acquired fortune, but goes back to living in rags and in a barrel. Huckleberry is convinced by his best friend, Tom Sawyer, to go back to living with “The Widow” so that he can join Tom’s newly created band of robbers. The Widow Douglas is a woman who takes Huckleberry as her son and does her best to “sivilize” him: teaching him how to behave and forcing him to go to school. Huckleberry slips off and joins “The Tom Sawyer Gang” and pretends to rob people for about a month before he resigns. All this time, Huckleberry is getting used to living with the widow, even admitting that he likes it a little bit. Then, one day, his father shows up, demanding his fortune and eventually taking him to his log cabin, hidden in the woods. There Huck hunts and fishes, but is not permitted to leave. Eventually, “pap got too handy with his hick’ry” so Huck escapes down the river when his father is drunk. Huck hides on Jackson’s Island and meets Jim, The Widow’s slave. Huck learns that Jim had run away from The Widow and so they decide to help each other out. But when Huck learns of a plan to search the island, they leave down the river. Several days later, they almost run into some robbers on a wrecked steamboat and manage to escape with their loot. When Huck and Jim land on the bank

Tim Lively Critical Analysis: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Setting: Late 1800’s along the Mississippi River Plot: When the book begins, the main character, Huck Finn possesses a large sum of money. This causes his delinquent lifestyle to change drastically. Huck gets an education, and a home to live in with a caring elderly woman (the widow). One would think that Huck would be satisfied. Well, he wasn’t. He wanted his own lifestyle back. Huck’s drunkard father (pap), who had previously left him, was also not pleased with Huck’s lifestyle. He didn’t feel that his son should have it better than he. Pap tries to get a hold of the money for his own uses, but he fails. He proceeds to lock Huck up in his cabin on the outskirts of town.

This is a disturbing account of what Huck went through. Pap brought Huck out into the middle of the woods so no one can find them. He got drunk and basically went nuts. He also tries to attack Huck before he passes out again.

While on the river, Huck comes across the duke and the dauphin, two individuals that represent selfishness and greed in the community. These “liars aren’t no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds” (125) and take advantage of innocent

In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, we are introduced to Huck a boy of about 13 years of age. From a young age Huck grows up in the absence of both his parents. However, Huck is raised by two women who take him in as family, the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson, who make it their goal to “sivilize” (Twain 1) Huck. In the plot of this novel we learn that Huck is beaten repeatedly, and even kidnapped by his overbearing and critical father, Pap. We also learn that Pap, because he is always drunk, is an intimidating figure in Huck's life. Twain also writes about a character named Jim; Jim was Miss Watson's slave, freed after her death. Throughout the novel, Twain creates a strong friendship between Huck

He then ends up in the Grangerfords household, they ask him abounch of questions seeing if he is a Shepherdson. The grangerfords realize that he is not a Sheperson and welcome him into their home. Huck befriends the Grangerfords son named Buck, he tells Huck that they have had a fued with the Shephersons for a long time. One day a battle broke out between the two families because a grangerford daughter and Shperhson son ran away together. Mr Grangerford and his two brothers were gunned down, and buck and his brother were being shot at. Huck watches buck and a boy be ambushed by shepherdsons on top of a tree. Huck is emotionally hurt by bucks death, They were becoming really good friends and he had to watch him be killed. Additionally, this event is significant because Huck sees how the Grangerfords treated him so well and they didn’t deserve the death that came to them. When Huck see Bucks body in the river he has to cover it up because it is the least he could do for him after all buck did for him. At this oint I believe Huck thinks their journey cant get much worse than it already is, he has witnessed death and disappointment too

He visits Judge Thatcher only to find that the money is out of his reach. Furious, these actions of greed turned into actions of violence as Pap kidnaps Huck and brings him to a cabin in the woods. Ingeniously, Huck devised a plan to escape. For days Huck sawed a hole in the cabin wall. When pap left one morning, Huck finished the hole, escaped, and splashed pigs blood on the interior cabin walls to give Pap the impression that he had been murdered.

Pap returns to town, when he does he started causing trouble and drinking all over town, he wanted custody over huck which he got and started to abuse huck as soon as he got huck out of sight from the public. “he kept me with him all the time, and never got a chance to run off. we lived in that old cabin, and he always locked the door and put the key under his head, nights”. (twain

Finally, Huck decides that he has had of enough of these frauds and he wants nothing else to do with them. He does not value money as much as he values honesty.

Huck gives all of his money to Judge Thatcher because he knows that his father, Pap, is back in town after seeing the footprint with the cross on the heel. He does this because he fears that his father would spend it on booze and other things. Pap returns to fight for custody of Huck, but it's really all for the money that Huck has. Pap believes that since he is Huck's father, he is entitled to the money, which would be his main motive for returning. Another, though unlikely, would be the subconscious fatherly responsibility he has towards Huck.

Huck has had enough with their failed relationship, deciding he can handle such an atrocity, he decides he will run away from his monster of an alcoholic father. Pap will never be able to have a relationship with his father, because he was probably drunk, got into an argument and was shot and killed. Alcoholic parents’ actions often hinder the child’s ability to tell what is right from wrong.

After encounters with bandits and slave catchers, they save two con-artists that claim to be European royalty. With them at their side, they scam every city they come across, when trying to steal an inheritance that gets thwarted by Huck feeling guilt. In retaliation, the two sell Jim to a farmer, and Huck fixes on getting him out. In the luckiest of all coincidences, he was sold to Tom Sawyer’s aunt and uncle. Both mistake him for Tom, who supposed to be visiting around then, again very lucky, and Huck rolls with it. When Tom does arrive, Huck let’s him in on the plan and Tom agrees to play along as younger brother Sid.

Huck's father is absent until he finds out that Huck has found some money.  Pap is an outcast full of hate for blacks and pretty much for all of society.  Huck, as a product of his society, speaks the language of his society.  By choosing as his point-of-view a young boy from the slave south, Twain is able to present and challenge the values and assumptions of this time.  Among the assumptions and values of the time that the reader encounters in the book are the strict definitions pertaining to Huck's world and the people who inhabit it:

In the beginning of the novel mostly, Pap is a major character for many reasons. He is a static and flat character who never changes from his abusive, ignorant, alcoholic and racist self. Although he is not physically present in most of the story, he is present in the thoughts and actions of Huck. Growing up, Pap was never the dad Huck wanted and needed him to be; he was never there for him and even used him to get what he wanted at times. The novel states, “..and he went to Judge Thatcher's and bullyragged him, and tried to make him give up the money; but he couldn't, and then he swore he'd make the law force him,” (Twain, 50). This quote explains how Pap tried to get his sons money for one reason; alcohol. Pap will do anything he possible can to get his alcohol because he is an addict. He will steal, lie and even abuse his son to get what he wants. For this reason, Pap is also an antagonist throughout the novel. Huck is always fighting against his father; both physically and mentally. So Pap Finn is an addict, but there are good qualities to him, right? It’s not too hard to realize that this statement is false. Fathers are supposed to want what’s best for their kids, but Pap is not the same. Pap says to Huck, “You've put on considerable many frills since I been away.  I'll take you down a peg before I get done with you.  You're educated, too, they say—can read and write.  You think you're

Huck now realize how he could lose a friend if he kept on trampling upon their friendship. After he played this trick, his loyalty to his friend Jim had surged keeping him away from harm. Some time after that incident, a fake duke and king hitched a ride with Jim and Huck to get away from trouble. Huck, knowing that they were con men, kept that secret away from Jim to make sure that he kept amused by the crooks. He wondered if there was any “use to tell Him these weren’t real Kings and dukes” (117).