Huck Finn Character Analysis

Although he predicts society will deem him to be "a low down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum," he prefers to be shunned and to risk punishment and shame for the sake of freeing Jim (Twain 43). Clearly, Huck's fondness for Jim is evident when Huck intends to send a letter to Miss Watson returning Jim but chooses to rip it to save him instead. Huck responds, "‘I'll right, then, I'll go to hell'- and he tore it up" (Twain 214). Huck accepts his rebellious nature and terrible fate to hell as he escapes from civilized society and into a place driven by his instincts. Jim's desire for freedom puts Huck in a moral dilemma because he must decide whether to follow his innate sense of morality or the restrictive guidelines of society.

A boring lifestyle is never appealing to an imaginative child. In Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Tom is a young child who dreams of an exciting and adventurous life outside his small town. Although while his dreams become more and more ambitious so does his reality. The sudden change in events soon begin to change Tom’s life. As Tom’s small town attracts a criminal everything Tom wishes for begins to come true only in a corrupt way that he never imagined. With all new to keep up with Tom is forced to mature and develop as a character along with those around by leaving behind his childish games and accepting reality. Twain uses character development in Tom and Huck Finn to create unique and special characters.

When thinking of freedom, I imagine being independent and being allowed to do as I please. Also, freedom to me means that people can’t control me and take away my power that I have been given. I think that freedom means something else to everyone because we all have a different idea of what we should be allowed to do/ say and what is rightfully given to us. This probably changes as we get older, more mature, and experience new things in life that alters our ideology of freedom. To Huck, freedom most likely means that he gets to leave his house whenever he wants, doesn't have to listen to the widow or her sister, gets to smoke, and do whatever he pleases. He most likely thinks that people should let him do as he pleases because it is his given right and although this is not true, but he doesn’t know this so everytime someone doesn’t let him go off on his own and do whatever he wants, he thinks that life is unfair and people are trying to bring him

Although, it can be inferred that his peers are trying to steer him into the wrong direction when it comes to how slaves should be treated. Huck is faced with the decision of helping his friend slave named Jim escape across the Mississippi or turn him in like any other towns member during this time. The climax of this decision occurs when Huck wrote a letter to inform Miss Watson where her runaway slave is, which would supposedly lift his sins and help make him a better christian. Instead, he followed his heart and said “‘All right, then, I’ll go to hell’-and tore it up.” (Twain 668)

Huckleberry Finn is the main protagonist in the story he is a young boy at the age around 13 to 14 years old he is a very adventurous and mischievous all throughout the story from friends in the book he goes by the nickname hug but constantly has conversations with his conscience as he struggles to find out what is wrong and what is right and society.

“I liked the old ways best, but I was getting so I liked the new ones, too, a little bit...she said she warn’t ashamed of me.” Chap 4, pg 15

Page 4: “After supper she got out her book...I don’t take no stock in dead people.”

This passage about Huck, supports my simile of a sea saw from this reading experience, because of when Huck decides to rat Jim out. There are other factors taking place that has affected the society. It was not easy going against all you knew, the hardship of going against what you have been taught and the belief of your friends and family. In this situation Huck is tipping the seater saw , elevating himself and Jim closer, and closer to the ground. This portion was all about Huck, little to nothing about what Jim wants and needs. Here in this section it shows just how selfish someone can be and how it can cause an effect. Huck, here thinks he is the know it all, the boss.

Normal people in today’s society are not overjoyed about stepping out of their comfort zone. Most people like to do things that are most familiar to that person. An ordinary person would give excuses to why they are not adventurous, such as not having enough time, being scared, or not being in the best financial situation. In Mark Twain’s, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn displays a wide range of personality traits such as being smart, creative, and wild that develops the theme of the power of stepping out of one’s comfort zone.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a book of social criticism, in fact,

The second moment during the novel when Huck Finn is pulled in conflicting desires is when he leaves the murderers alone at the shipwreck to die. When they overhear, the murderers talking they say that "if we don’t hunt up their boat and set her drifting down the river so these fellows can't get away from the wreck there's one of 'em going to be in a bad fix but if we find their boat we can put all of 'em in a bad fix." (Twain 70). But later Huck feels bad for the murderers. He says, "I began to think how dreadful it was, even for murderers, to be in such a fix."

From the well known film Cool Hand Luke, Strother Martin’s character who is a captain in a prison warden says the infamous quote, “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate” (imdb). In the scene Luke, who is the main character, is talking to the captain about what to expect from the prison life. When Luke shoots back a sarcastically nice comment to the strict rules that were set, the captain feels like he has not gotten his point of strict living across and how such behaviors will not be tolerated. This relates to Holden, the main character who is a distraught teen, because throughout the novel The Catcher in the Rye he fails to get his emotions and feelings across via his abnormal ways of communication and also lack there of it. The

Beyond a shadow of doubt, there are a lot of things I learned in both these books. Their story lines are amazing and they left me powerful messages that are useful in life. Moreover, though these books were written in different settings, Huck Finn which was written when slavery was still legal and Long Walk to Freedom, which was written secretly in prison, they send identical memos about challenges and how wrong is can be. Also that, it can lead to fatalities and terrible endings. As well as, nobody was born racism, kids are taught it, therefore racism is cruel. Lastly, listening to our hearts can sometimes be important because it is the only way for us to live according to the natural moral circle.

that Huck and Jim had run a thousand miles down the river and ended up

Plot Overview: Just as Huck and Jim get separated, Huck begins getting attacked by guard dogs. Fortunately for Huck, the owner of the dogs saves him. Huck’s saviors ask him who he is. Huck once again creates another alter ego, George Jackson, and makes up another story. After listening to his story, the man invites him to his abode.