Huck Finn Ending 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

When Huck returns home he finds his father in his bedroom. He threatens him not to tell anyone he’s there. Huck then describes him as about 50 years old, with long hair, pale skin, a beard and a hat. Huck’s father accused him of trying to be better than the rest of his family by being civilized and hygienic. He makes threats to Huck and he wants him to quit school and give him his assets. Huck denies knowledge of the money and tells him to ask Judge Thatcher. Huck’s father then tells him to give him whatever money he has on him which Huck does, then his father leaves. The next day Judge Thatcher refuses to give the money and starts trying to get custody of Huck. Unfortunately the Judge in charge of this case is new and doesn’t know Huck’s father is a bad man. He wants to keep the father and son together, so he attempts to clean Huck’s father up himself. After living with the family for about a week, Huck’s dad claims to have seen the error of his ways and changed. The family in response to this decide to let him stay in the spare room of their house. One night, he decided to sell his

Jim, who becomes Huck's friend as he travels down the Mississippi river, is a man of intelligence and consideration. "An understanding of Jim's character is by no means a simple matter; he is a highly complex and original creation, although he appears at first sight very simple" (Hansen, 388). Jim has one of the few well functioning families in the novel. Although he has been estranged from his wife and children, he misses them dreadfully, and it is only the thought of a lasting separation from them that motivates his unlawful act of running away from Miss Watson. Jim is rational about his situation and must find ways of accomplishing his goals without provoking the fury of those who could turn him in. Regardless of the restrictions and constant fear Jim possesses he consistently acts as a gracious human being and a devoted friend. In fact, Jim could be described as the only existent adult in the novel, and the only one who provides an encouraging, decent example for Huck to follow. The people that surround Huck who are supposed to be teaching him of morals, and not to fall into the down falls of society are the exact people who need to be taught the lessons of life by Jim. Jim conveys an honesty that makes the dissimilarity between him and the characters around him evident.

The chapter continues with the two boys, Tom and Huck, carefully walking through the path. They walk past the kitchen, where they try to avoid Jim, Miss. Watson’s slave. Jim hears them and comes to investigate. The two boys are hiding, while Jim comes close to them, but doesn’t see them. Jim decides to stay in that position until he hears the noise again. While Huck is debating whether he should scratch his nose, Jim falls asleep. Tom tells Huck about Jim, that he is respected by the other slaves, for going against the devil. But Jim had begun to become cocky for seeing the devil and fighting the witches.

I feel this way because it is what I am least able to understand. From what I understand, some people feel as if the ending was too glorified for the rough plot that encompassed the rest of the novel. Moreover, Huck seems to revert back to the innocent, society-influenced boy he was in the beginning of the novel before going through the transformation he does going down the river. Quite simply, Huck sees Jim as a human, even a friend at times, on the river, but feels superior and treats Jim like property just as everyone else does on shore. Considering the novel ends on shore, as it starts, it is easy to assume that the novel ends with Huck as racist and ignorant as the rest of antebellum society and as he was before his journey down the

The very stuffy Miss Watson walked over to Huck Finn. He was sitting on the front porch wasting the day away with a pipe in hand. “Get off that filthy pipe.”

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.

The next morning Pap finds Huck with the gun and remembers nothing about the previous night. When Pap questions him about the gun, Huck says that he has been lying in wait because he thought someone was trying to get in the cabin. Asked why he did not try to wake him, Huck replies that he did try, but could not rouse him.Huck is asked by his father to go out and check if there are any fish on the line. This gives Huck the opportunity to look for a raft or logs floating by in the river. To his good fortune, he sees a canoe floating down the river. He swims to it, brings it ashore, and hides it to help in his escape. When he returns to the cabin and is scolded by his father for being lazy, Huck tells him that he accidentally fell into the river.

In the end their childish, yet entertaining adventure ended up like many of Sawyers and Huck’s adventures, missing the main objective, but providing for some great stories of fun and excitement.

The ending was not appropriate, the whole book was about how Huck has changed and how his thinking evolving for it all to revert back to Tom Sawyer's ways. It was supposed to be about how a white boy and a black slave, can overcome their ways of growing up, and thinking, to actually be able to talk to each other and act as if they were to normal people people, not as if they were master and slave. When Tom Sawyer is brought into the book at the end, it ruins the whole dynamic of the story. It reverts it back to the ways before, and makes it seem as if Huck didn’t actually change, as if the only thing making Jim and Huck act that way towards each other, as if the the river was the only thing that that helped when they were by themselves. As if

     Aside from the ending as a downfall, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn taught an important lesson, one that showed the importance of the self in the maturing process. We saw Huck grow up by having the river as a place of solitude and thought, where he was able to participate in society at times, and also sit back and observe society. Through the child's eye we see how ignorant and mob-like we can all be. Then nature, peace, and logic are presented in the form of the river where Huck goes to think. Though no concise answer is given, the literature forces the reader to examine their surroundings, and question their leaders, which can also lead into this great disappointment. Because we idolize Huck for his individualism and beliefs, the end of the novel lets all the readers down. We can no longer refer to Huck as a hero because he never got Jim to freedom, instead prevented him from it. Although Huck loved Jim, he feared his future and what would happen to him if he were caught

One of the main aspects of Huck we continue to point out is his cleverness. However, if you look at chapter 26 Huck is now finding himself in holes that he has created. Before this bad experience Huck was very good with created backstories. However, the main difference between the lie with Joe and the other times is that Huck Finn usually allowed the listener to fill the gaps within his story. In chapter 11 Huck talks with an old woman and she starts to question his story. However, instead of panicking Huck waited for the old woman to fill the cracks in his story by letting her conclude that Huck is a runaway apprentice. Later in chapter 16 Huck is talking to two men about who else is on his raft. Huck gives very few details until the men conclude

Mark Twain had included the last ten chapters of Huckleberry Finn for his own purpose of showing the reader how all the events in the first half of the book are a lot different from the end. Though there are people out there that criticize Twain’s reasons for doing these, taking a closer look at the book and how closely it connects to the end will open an audience’s mind in understanding that Twain added these “extra” chapters to connect Huck to the original character of the series Tom and how major differences in their morals have changed as well as showing how far Huck and Jim would go to help one another.

Many critics argue that the ending to Huckleberry Finn is poor because it shows a regression of Huck’s character that negates much of the growth Huck experiences throughout his journey down the Mississippi River and changes the novel’s focal point onto Tom rather than Huck. Tom Quirk, author of articles on American literature and specifically many studies of Mark Twain, states that the ending of the novel “essentially disregarded whatever moral growth and social seriousness the narrative had acquired in favor of rather trivial burlesque on the grounds that there was a certain consistency and “aptness” to the gesture.” Huck’s journey down the Mississippi serves as a coming-of-age story in that Huck learns to follow his own conscious and determine