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Literary Analysis: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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Ethan Greavu
Mrs. Vogt
English 3 Advanced Placement, Period 5
Literary Analysis Essay
6, January 2015
Society and IndividualityB “This shook me up considerable, because I didn't want to go back to the widow's any more and be so cramped up and sivilized, as they call it” (Twain 35). Individuality is typically hard to find given that society adjusts for the common people to be a part of. A representation of this can be found in the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Twain portrays this with a young boy named Huckleberry Finn who breaks free from society. Huckleberry Finn, also referred to as Huck, did not understand the society of his time and to fight against this, attempts to become an individual. The development of Huck's …show more content…

Before the adventure Huck embarked on, he lived a life of dissatisfaction with the Widow Douglass and Miss Watson mandating Huck's actions. “Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there” (10). Widow Douglass had taken care of Huck in the way she believed was proper and could straighten out Huck's behavior and desire to be like Tom Sawyer. “I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and, she said, not by a considerable sight” (11). Furthermore, Huck had admired how Tom Sawyer stood out from the public acting as an individual provoking Huck to attempt to be the …show more content…

From the beginning, Huck felt guilty for keeping Miss Watson wondering where her slave had escaped to with Huck, but felt returning Jim would lead to regret. As Huck traveled down the Mississippi with Jim, he had an opportunity to return the slave to the rightful owner but Huck believed his moral values were more important than ordinary society expectations. “So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn't know what to do” (227). Huck wrote a letter to the owner of Jim, Miss Watson, informing her of where Jim was before ripping up the letter opposing his own ideas. “I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life” (227). In Huck's lifetime, the public would shame Huck for helping an escaped slave and consider Jim as a father

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