Huckleberry Finn Packet Essay

They wants to jump in, but I says: 'Don't you do it. I don't hear the dogs and horses yet; you've got time to crowd through the brush and get up the crick a little ways; then you take to the water and wade down to me and get in-that 'll throw the dogs off the scent.'" (Twain 116) Huck acts like a Good Samaritan. Not only does Huck have pity upon these two men, he is also willing to take action and help them to safety. ""When I got down out of the tree I crept along down the river-bank a piece, and found the two bodies laying in the edge of the water, and tugged at them till I Got then ashore; then I covered up their faces, and got away as quick as I could. I cried a little when I was covering up Buck's face, for he was mighty good to me." (Twain 112) Huck has empathy for humankind; he treats others as he wants to be treated. Huck overlooked a person's social status, race or respectability when reacting to a situation. Another example of Huck's tenderness towards other humans is his experience with Jim on the river. At the beginning of the voyage Huck viewed Jim as a piece of property, a true reflection of Southern mores. "It was fifteen minutes before I would work myself to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn't even sorry for it afterward, neither." (Twain 84) Going against social mores takes a great deal of looking inside one's self. Being raised in a time and place where blacks were looked down upon, Huck found that going against what

While at the cabin with Pap, he figures out a way to escape (the cabin acted as a constraint) for the day Pap is gone, without it looking like he has run away. He makes it look as if robbers came into the house and murdered Huck by using pig blood to mimic a human’s blood. This shows the more mature, smart Huck that has not been seen before. IT shows how much potential Huck has, and street smarts (definitely not school/math smarts). Also it shows how he is ready to live by himself, even if that means his family and friends thinking he is dead. The quote “There was a little gray in the sky now; so I stepped into the woods, and laid down for a nap before breakfast,”(Twain 36) shows that he has no cares in the world, and could not be happier to be alone. He is able to do as he wishes whenever he wants, like smoking. Huck is more than capable of taking care of himself which shows more signs of maturity. Huck has to fish for food, hike for materials, and create shelter for survival. It shows how Huck has escaped the harsh society he was used to, and could not be

Third and the most important, Jim. Jim is a runaway slave to be avoid being sold. Huck helps him a lot though the book but his part teaches huck not to play a trick on friends. A fog roll over the raft and huck decides to play a trick on Jim by taking the canoe and floating away from the raft a few yards. When he come back Jim's was crying and gave up on trying to escape. ”live and sound’ jes de same ole huck de same ole Huckabee thank to goddesses” (Twain 83). Huck learns that not everyone is owned and everyone has feeling and

One night his father breaks into his room at the Widow’s house and insults Huck repeatedly. He bullies Huck for looking nice and learning how to read. Huck’s father Pap uses Huck’s supposed wealth as an excuse to take his son back. Pap takes advantage of his son Huck by taking him back into his care to receive the money belonging to Huck. All Pap seems to care about is the money he could receive. When Pap takes Huck to his cabin Huck is physically abused. At one point Pap chases Huck around threatening to kill him. Huck lives in constant fear of his father and his father's drinking because of the violent way he’s treated by his only family

Throughout the novel both Huck and

Initially, Twain strikes the reader with powerful pain in Huck’s life from his family experience and puts Huck’s young life into perspective for the reader.

takes the role of a father to Huck, and Huck is like that child at the supermarket whose parents

in the graveyard.” What does this shows about Huck? She focused so much on death and people dying that he figured she was in

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 novel, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Mark Twain writes about Huck and the adventures his faces as he travels down the Mississippi River, along with his companion Jim. Throughout the story, Huck experiences obstacles that make him question society’s perspective and morals. As Huck spends more and more time with Jim, their friendship grow and Huck begins to see Jim as more than just a companion but a close friend. This causes Huck to challenge the morality behind slavery and ultimately decides to guide Jim to freedom. At this point in time, Huck has had an realization and decides to make his own path with his own beliefs and standards separating himself from society.

Although he had known that Jim was actually a free man from the time Miss Watson died two months ago, he keeps this knowledge to himself and does not allow for Jim to be liberated from all of his troubles. Tom uses Jim as simply a toy for his overly adventurous needs, revealing a new level of cruelty and a new low in morality. He does not consider the consequences of his selfish behavior. Instead, he is only focused on the fact that a great adventure would result from keeping Jim’s freedom as a secret. Tom reflects the vast majority of society during the 1880s, as he views Jim, an African American, of being less than

Huck had never been able to go out a certain distance of the little shaft him and his father had lived in. His father would lock him up when he left not letting him have a place to escape. Huck wanted freedom from his father and the little town he once grew up in. He came up with a plan to escape and the plan he made was to make his father think he had been killed for an example, “ I pulled out some of my hair, and blooded the ax good, and stuck it on the back side, and slung the ax in the corner.” (Page 46) He knew that his father would think he was dead leading him to the freedom he had

Smith describes one of the key parts of Twain’s characterization of Huck is “the boy’s capacity for love,” which is “projected into the natural setting.” Smith believes that “without qualification as a symbolic account of Huck’s emotions he [Twain] would have undercut the complexity of characterization implied in his recognition of Huck’s inner conflict of loyalties. Instead, he uses

The first factor comes with that trait is his family included his Pap, and Window Douglas and Aunt Sally. Pap is an important role imposes on Huck’s life and behavior. In the chapter earlier, we know Huck was born in a lower level of white family with a poor and drunken Pap. His Pap appearance looks with “long and tangled and greasy hair and rags for clothes.” (Twain) it shows that Pap looks very poverty. The only thing Pap cares about is getting drunk every day until he doesn’t remember himself. Pap behaves in a very cruel way with Huck who was often abused physically. Pap is also against Huck goes to school for leaning. He prefers to teach his son to do what he orders him and keep him in the forest in the cabin away from the outside world. Huck’ life is been treat like an animal. Under such abusive, Huck attempts to escape his life free from the society and civilization and away from the rules of school. In reality of Huck’s existence under Pap, Huck is eager to have a free life. Mark Twain point out that Pap is criticizing society for trying to take away his son, but this doesn’t help Huck and only makes his life more miserable. When Pap tries to get Huck’s reward money, it shows that Pap is an inability person and inner darkness. When he has been told his Pap dead in the house, and Huck realized that Pap will not bother or abuse him ever again. As we can see

While Pap may have been Huck’s father by blood, he did none of the things that would even remotely make him a “real” father. From Pap, Huck learned nothing but about how immoral and vicious humans can be. Every time Pap is drunk, he terrorizes Huck, so much to the point that Pap’s drunkenness