Huck Finn Hero's Journey

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a classic for almost all ages. The novel was first published by the Prentice Hall Library in 1884 and since then has been republished. Something notable of this book is the amount of controversy it has brought throughout the years. With such strong characters and strong messages, I can see why. Yet, don’t let such things scare you into believing those who are young shouldn’t be exposed to these powerful ideas. The story consists of Huck’s adventures from planning his own murder, to boarding a steamboat with robbers and con-artists, and concocting plans to free Jim, a slave.

Huckleberry Finn by: Mark Twain has many examples of the Hero’s Journey. The main ones that stuck out were challenges, mentors, and return. First, the challenge was to escape his father. Second, his mentor for his journey was Jim. Finally, his return was when he got caught when he was getting the doctor for Tom. In conclusion, There are a lot of examples of the Hero’s Journey in Huckleberry Finn by: Mark Twain.

In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain follows protagonist, Huck Finn throughout his endeavors. This coming of age story displays Huck’s actions that lead to him running away from home. From a young age, Huck is forced to become emotionally and physically autonomous due to his father’s alcoholism. Huck runs away and begins his adventure with fugitive slave, Jim. Together they meet a diverse range of individuals and families. Mark Twain illustrates Huck Finn’s character development by exposing him to different moral systems.

The main character of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn, undergoes a complete moral change while having to make life changing and moral questioning decisions throughout his journey on the river. Huck appears first as a morally inferior character caused by living with a self absorbed and abusive father, because of his alcoholic habits. Throughout the whole book Huck is guided by Jim, a runaway slave who goes with him and helps Huck gain his sense of morality. During these encounters, he is in many situations where he must look within and use his judgement to make decisions that will affect Huck’s morals.

Huckleberry Finn’s rough experiences impacted his decision making that eventually gets him into trouble countless times. Huck traveled through the hero’s journey in his decision to help Jim, a slave owned by Miss Watson that had run away.

Similar to the refusal of the call, the Return stage begins with the hero’s refusal of the return. This step consists of the hero being unwilling to return back to their old life, as they enjoy their new life much more. Often times, this hero’s reluctance to return causes them to experience great pain when they do eventually finish the Return stage (Bray). As described by Campbell, on some accounts the world denies the hero’s return, making them physically unable to return to society despite their willingness to do so (Campbell 167). Huckleberry Finn is an excellent example of the world denying the hero’s return, as in Huck’s Return stage, the dogs in front of Tom Sawyer’s Aunt Sally’s house prevents him from returning despite Huck wanting to enter the home, as the barking dogs scare Huck to the point that he is too afraid to attempt to move past them (Twain).

In the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain juxtaposes two environments that tackle many different aspects of life. From Christian reforms, domestic abuse, and slavery to reflective solitude and liberation, Twain brings together a plethora of obstacles for the main character Huckleberry Finn and his companion Jim to encounter and assimilate. The two contrasting settings depict intermingling themes of the repressive civilization on land, the unrestricted freedom on the raft, and the transcendentalism that Huck and Jim experience during their escape from captivity towards liberation.

In Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the young protagonist Huckleberry Finn runs away from his abusive father with Jim, a black slave. Throughout the novel, Huck encounters people that fail to understand the injustice of slavery and violence, despite their education. Although Huck lacks any substantial education, his moral values and judgment are highly developed. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses uneducated, colloquial diction and deliberate syntax to provide ironic contrast between Huck’s rudimentary level of education and profound use of moral judgment.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain provides yet another interesting and playful story in the same world as his previous writing. Huckleberry Finn, or Huck for short, stages his death and flees to an island to get away from his father. It just so happens that the well known Jim, a runaway slave, also flees to the same island. Jim had a rocky upbringing and longs to be a free man. Jim and Huck stick together as they start the escape-adventure down south. Huck helps Jim through the journey and vise versa, at least, that is what it looks like on the surface. The devil's advocate would obviously be able to point out how Jim is just using Huck for his personal gain, leading to his ‘grand escape’ at the end of the story. Huck is doing anything and everything for Jim, but receives no reciprocation. Jim is using Huck as his white pawn and never formed the friendship the reader is under the impression of.

Huck Finn and Jim are characters created by Mark Twain in the novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The environment in which Huck lives in is very challenging, and as a result of this, he has to lie, cheat, steal, and defraud his way down the Mississippi river. Unlike Huck, Jim is a slave who gets depicted as a simple and trusting character. Despite Jim’s place as a slave, he walked together with Huck. Jim’s actions in the novel make him an authority figure. Jim’s trust and faith in his friend Huck also gets expounded throughout the novel. Just like “the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, “To Kill a Mockingbird” is a novel by Harper Lee with Scout and Jem as the main characters. Like Huck, Scout is the narrator of the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The strength as well as the characters Scout portrays at school makes other students regard her as a masculine being. Despite this, she could easily walk in someone else’s shoes. In the novel, Jem portrays a character that successfully represents the idea of bravery. In tandem with this, he protects and helps Scout understand the impacts of the events around her. My aim is to delineate both the similarities and the differences between Huck and Jim, the characters in Mark Twain's

This novel is extremely popular with readers and it is clear why. Mark Twain explains to readers at the beginning of the novel to not analyze the novel and narrative as a moral, motive, and plot or punishment will follow. This is interesting because a book so old was clearly ahead of its time when he stated that. Huck Finn is the narrative and to understand the novel I strongly believe you have to apply every situation as you are Huck and how you would handle everything. I enjoyed this aspect of the book because it allowed me to make whatever I wanted about the story. The only downside to this would be the confusion of what exactly is occurring. As the novel moves on, you realize the importance of how Mark Twain wanted the readers to understand

Joseph Campbell describes a hero’s journey as a cycle where the person is a hero from birth. This holds true for the character of Huck Finn because he fits the description of a hero in the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. There are different parts of the hero’s journey that can be applied to Huck, such as the first stage which is known as the Innocent World of Childhood. A stage further on in the journey is the Initiation while the last stage is known as the Freedom to Live. All three of the stages can be used to describe a specific time in Huck’s life.

In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain presents the problem of slavery in America in the 19th Century. Twain poses this problem in the form of a character named Huckleberry Finn, a white boy raised in the antebellum South. Huck starts to question his view regarding slavery when he acquaints himself more intimately with a runaway slave while he himself tries to run away. Huck’s development as a character is affected by society’s influence on his experiences while growing up in the South, running away with Jim, and trying to save Jim. Although Huck decides to free Jim, Huck’s deformed conscience convinces him that he is doing the wrong thing.

Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn is widely considered a classic - an embodiment of American literature. It rightfully tackles the issue of slavery through the illustration and vernacular of the young protagonist, Huck Finn and his adventures with a runaway slave, Jim. However, beneath a linear challenge towards slavery, Twain’s depiction of Huck’s changing views of Jim reveal Huck’s unique attitude and philosophy towards slavery, and in particular - his partner-in-“crime” - Jim. Although Huck never abandons societal opinions of slavery and never opposes the bondage, his exception for Jim unveils the follies of his society and flawed upbringing.

As many know, our American history involves slavery of African people. We are not proud of this, but we can’t change the fact that it happened. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” by Mark Twain, hits on important points throughout the story. It takes place before the Civil War around 1835 in St. Petersburg, Mississippi. He writes about the relationship and adventures of Huckleberry Finn who is around the age of eleven and a slave, Jim. Knowing that slavery is still legal, we get to see how Huck views Jim and his relationship as they spend all this time together. There are three main relationships between Huck and Jim throughout the story, their friendship, seeing Jim as a slave, and the father role of Jim.