Huck Finn Character Analysis

The book introduces Huck as the first person narrator which is important because it establishes clearly that this book is written from the point of view of a young, less than civilized character. His character emerges as a very literal and logical thinker who only believes what he can see with his own eyes. In this section Huck’s life with the Widow Douglas and her attempts to raise him as a civilized child sets up the main theme of this book which is the struggle or quest for freedom. Huck’s struggle for freedom from civilized society is paralleled by Jim’s struggle to escape from slavery. Irony as a key literary

Huck Finn's relationship with slavery is very complex and often contradictory. He has been brought up to accept slavery. He can think of no worse crime than helping to free a slave. Despite this, he finds himself on the run with Jim, a runaway slave, and doing everything in his power to protect him. Huck Finn grew up around slavery. His father is a violent racist, who launches into tirades at the idea of free blacks roaming around the countryside. Miss Watson owns slaves, including Jim, so that no matter where he goes, the idea of blacks as slaves is reinforced. The story takes place during the 1840's, at a time when racial tensions were on the rise, as northern abolitionists tried to stir up trouble in the South. This prompted a

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

In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck decides that he wants to reject civilization. Huck does not like to live on the shore and would rather live on the river in his raft. Huck learn’s a hand full of new things while living on the river that he never learned on the shore. His experience has helped him to realize how to live.

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain initially presents Huck as a naïve narrator, an unreliable character who raises himself on his own. With the help of Jim, a runaway slave, Huck matures in his morals. Throughout the novel, Huck develops into a more mature character. Huck does this through his courage to escape from his father, his ability to take care of himself, and his relationship with Jim. Huckleberry Finn grows into a strong, mature, young man as he develops his relationships and displays courage throughout the novel.

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.

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.

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

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.

When compared to Tom at the end of the book the reader will find that Huck is actually quite mature and that Tom’s “flair” caused more trouble than it helped. Tom, while willing to help, wanted to much adventure and ended up slowing things down in the end and while they did eventually free Jim, Tom wound up with a bullet in his leg. Luckily, his bullet wound was mended and he recovered shortly after but it caused their plans to be

In the beginning in the movie,he was fighting a boy ,when he saw a footprint of his father. Later he went to Jim place to talk about his father if anything bad is going to happen with him. Later he sneaks out of the house to play with his friends when he saw Pap in the house and took him. Pap took him to his DWELLING then later he was chasing Huck with a knife when he got tired and went to