The Everlasting Qualities of Huckleberry Finn In Mark Twain’s controversial novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huckleberry Finn finds himself on the run with a slave by the name of Jim. Set thirty years before the Civil War, the novel demonstrates the rarity of a white man and a black man adventuring together. Throughout the novel, Huck matures and begins to see Jim for the person he is. Although it may be true Finn matures through the novel, Finn’s loyalty, creativity, and superstition remain constant. Huckleberry Finn is a paragon of loyalty. In spite of several temptations while on the run, Finn stays loyal to Jim. In chapter thirty one, Huck struggles with himself internally with this decision. Despite temptations, he stays loyal and …show more content…
I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: ‘All right, then, I’ll go to Hell’” (Twain 215). Throughout Finn and Jim’s grand escape from their old lives, Finn is tempted with rewards and money if he is to turn Jim in. Although money would be very helpful for Finn living on his own, he decides that he rather have Jim’s presence and go to hell than any type of reward money. Finn remains loyal to the people he loves and does not give in no matter what the price. Finn also holds this same loyalty in his love for his father. Huckleberry Finn shows loyalty to his father disregarding their horrendous relationship. In chapter 6, Huckleberry Finn’s father comes home exceedingly intoxicated and mistakes his own son for an angel of death. His father attacked him with a knife around the house attempting to kill him, soon to collapse and pass out in front of the door. As explained by Finn, “By-and-by I got the old split bottom chair and clumb up, as easy as I could, and got down the gun. I slipped the ramrod down to make sure it wasn’t loaded, and then I laid it across the turnip barrel, pointing towards pap, and set down to wait for him to stir” (Twain 29). Although it may be …show more content…
Huckleberry Finn extravagantly plans a crime scene to fake his death. Finn’s abusive father kidnaps him and keeps him locked away in a shed in the woods. During the day, his father wanders around town and gets drunk, leaving Finn locked away and completely alone. Finn has enough of being excluded from the world, so he fabricates a grandiose plan to escape. He does this by faking his own death. As Finn explains, “Well, last I pulled out some of my hair, and bloodied the axe good, and stuck it on the backside, and slung the axe in the corner” (Twain 33). Finn fetches a pig in the woods, slaughters it, and splashes the pig blood all across the shed. He decides to add an even more convincing factor in his plan by pulling out his own hair and setting it on the already bloody axe. His young mind can plot more mischievous plans than the average kid today. Finn has the ability to come up with lavish ideas to save his life and has the impressive ability of being able to get off scot-free with those ideas as well. While he does have a creative mind, he also finds creativity in his beliefs. These beliefs segway into Huck believing in things some may find
The novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, covers the situations and people Huckleberry Finn encounters after he runs away. Huck prevents his alcoholic father from getting his fortune and is able to run away after his father, Pap, kidnaps him and leaves town. It has many colorful characters that exhibit several facets of society at that time in history. It is anti-racist although it uses the word "nigger" frequently. Huck seems to struggle throughout the book with what he has been taught and what is morally right. His main and most consistent interaction is with Jim, a runaway slave. Although he had been taught differently throughout his entire life, he eventually makes the choice to go against what society deems to be right and be Jim's
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 is a rebellious boy who defies rules whenever he deems it fit. In the satirical novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, a runaway boy befriends an escaped slave in the deep south. The majority of society frowns upon Huck and his choices and he struggles with his decisions the whole novel to reveal thematic subjects such as friendship, love, and betrayal. Throughout the story Huck can’t decide whether to do the right thing or not, but ultimately his heart wins over the views forced upon him by society.
Throughout the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the main character, Huck goes through major changes. The story is set before the Civil War in the South. Huck is a child with an abusive father who kidnaps him from, Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, the people he was living with. He eventually escapes from his father and finds Jim, Miss Watson’s runaway slave. As Huck travels with Jim, Huck begins to realize that Jim is more than a piece of property. During the travel down the river, Huck makes many decisions that reflect his belief that Jim deserves the same rights he has. Because of these realizations, Huck chooses to do the right thing in many instances. Some of these instances where Huck does the right thing instead of society’s
Huckleberry Finn hasn’t had the best of time growing up. His father a drunk, and physically abusive, Huck had few role models. Most would expect him to turn out like his father. But, instead, against all odds. He clings to his childhood innocence. He is still persuadable and can be taught good. He keeps his mind open to new possibilities. Huck can and does change for the better by the end of the book Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.Huckleberry Finn is taken away by ‘Pap’ and is locked away. He later escapes by faking his death, and runs off trying to leave his father and past with his father behind. He runs into an old friend, Jim, who was a run away slave. This might not have been a good deal, but they struck off, showing Huck trusts other people, no matter how they look or act.
When Pap wakes with a gun pointed at his head, he confronts Huck about how the gun appeared there (40). Away from the safety of society, Huck must fabricate a lie to save his life, even though he must lie to his father. Life or death situations necessitate Huck’s lying. Before escaping from the cabin, Huck fakes his own death with pig blood, axe markings, and other signs (42-44). Huck commits an epic lie when he fakes his own death successfully; he lies to the entire town as well as to his father.
One heroic characteristic of Huck is his cleverness. As young boy, he fakes his own death to escape from his father. To fool everyone, Huck smartly kills a pig and spreads its blood around Pap’s cabin in an effort to make it appear as though robbers had murdered him. This scheme affords Huck all the time he needs to make his getaway and makes everyone think that he’s dead. Huck Finn cleverly makes up stories to get himself out of trouble. For example, when a couple of men insist on checking out Huck’s raft, he pretends as though his father is sick with smallpox to keep the men from getting too close. At the Grangerford’s, Huck forgets his false name and tricks Buck Grangerford into telling him. “I bet you can’t spell my name” (Twain 75). Buck accepts the dare and spells out what Huck said was his name. Huck is not only cunning, but also faithful to his friends.
In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Jim, a runaway slave, faces many obstacles in his journey to freedom. Huck Finn, a teenage boy and friend of JIm, is also facing difficulty with whether or not he should be helping Jim escape slavery. Many characters throughout the novel struggle to deal with conflicts. A conflict that people in today’s world are struggling to deal with, is the controversy over whether Huckleberry Finn is a racist novel or not. All-in-all, Huckleberry Finn is profoundly antislavery. Twain creates Him as a man who is brave and heroic. Twain also demonstrates that the blacks and whites relationship is not the only concern over racism, and reveals the voice of a slave attempting to survive in a white slave culture.
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.
Bias is something that has littered the media whenever politics come into play; some media outlets may favor one political party over another. While there is nothing wrong with centering yourself around a political party due to your own beliefs, it does become a problem when you’re “forcing” your beliefs onto the public. It obviously separates people, including the readers, since a group is most likely being talked about in a negative light. The culprit of this “crime” is The Blaze, an obviously conservative news network that associates itself with the Republican party, and this is shown through many of their articles and videos. Despite their obvious bias, the writer of the article seems to think it is appropriate to call out a group of people
A major theme in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is slavery and our evolvement towards the institution. “In fact, Twain’s novel is often taught as the text that epitomizes this tradition, with Huck held up as its exemplar: a boy courageous enough to stand against the moral conventions of his society. . .” (Bollinger, 32 – Say It Jim) In the beginning of Huckleberry Finn’s relationship with Jim, he has little respect for him and as their journey progresses he
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.
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Early into the story of Huckleberry Finn, we learn that his father is the town drunk, Mark Twain uses this to help paint a picture that Huckleberry Finn is a wild out of control young child. This helps in a way for the readers to envision that it is only normal that Huckleberry Finn is going to be getting into many mischievous acts. Without the proper role model of a stable Christian father, it becomes only natural that readers would be able to expect Huckleberry Finn to not act appropriately within the context of this story (Schinkel, 2011).
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