Personal Narrative : Safe Haven : Short Story : Safe Haven '

I didn’t plan to spend this hot August day like this...my mom told me on my birthday, my 5th to be exact, that this day would be special, little did my curious mind know that I would be getting something that every kid my age would die for. I would be getting my first best friend.

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.

"More than anything, I just want you to know that there is more than one person you can lean on. You may have someone up their who you are relying on, but you have two incrediably strong sons who would never wish to see their mother in pain like this. Whatever the outcome we finally get your boys will be strong for you and in return I'm sure you will be strong for them."[/b]

The main character, Huck Finn, was an uneducated, superstitious kid from a small town who ran away from his abusive father and traveled the Mississippi with a runway slave named Jim. Along the Mississippi they run into robbers, murderers, con men, feuding families, and gullible townsfolk all while learning that people animosity towards each other are often founded in illogical fallacies and fabricated assumptions. Furthermore, Huckleberry Finn exposes motives behind

"You can't keep holding on to stuff like this, James." Natasha sighed, slipping a delicate hand through her hair. "It's not healthy."

I woke up on a warm sunny Saturday morning and went down stairs and called my friend Joey Gliech and said “Today is the day!”

“I’m going to break you.” She said. “Every single bone in your body and once you recover, I’ll do it again if I have to.”

Mark Twain 's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is a novel about a young boy’s coming of age in Missouri during the mid-1800, is pre-Civil War era. The protagonist, Huckleberry Finn, spends much time in the novel floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave named Jim. On the way to Huck and Jim’s destiny, the two go through many adventures encountering many situations as well as very odd people along the way. Although this novel has adventure and interesting situations, the main focus throughout is the ethical maturity of Huckleberry Finn. The reader gets to see how Huck used to be a child who first questioned authority, but through self-discovery gets to prove himself that he is able to do what he must do in order to create a better world.

You never actually said your name out loud to anyone, and I'm not entirely sure how I managed to find it out in the first place. I'm sure it was through the whisper chains you hear every so often in this cafe. You have a soft voice you know, it's barely audible when you say things, it's not quite what I'd call gruff or gritty, it just has this sort of toughness. It's as though you've steadily built up a defence mechanism in your voice so people don't ask you things you'd rather not answer.

As a result, the emotional fear that Finn once had towards his father is rejuvenated and causes Finn to give in to his fathers demands’. More than often, young men desensitize to abuse or begin to blame themselves. Finn is depicted to be more desensitized to what seems normal to him; however, one should note that Finn does understand the unnatural behavior of his alcoholic father. Like any common abused child, the sense of feeling alone and wanting to escape becomes a rational thought. Soon after he is reunited with his father, Finn begins to do things out of the ordinary to spite and avoid his father.

Have you ever got hurt because you didn’t wear protection well I have and it hurt it hurt really bad. Sometimes I had wished I didn’t even think of doing this but you can’t stop the past you just hope for a better future. But it did change my future but in a good way and it’s helped me for a long time for about four years.

The novel, in general, talks about two runaways. They go by the names of Huckleberry Finn and Jim. A big question, can be asked, regarding with the literary analysis. How did the two lads, become runaways? First of all, Huckleberry Finn, can be described as a lad of wild and adventurous character. Another question, can be asked. How did Finn come to have such a wild character? Well, part of the reason, can be found, because of his father. In the story, his father appeared to be a complete drinker. So, he, only, wishes to make life harder for Huckleberry Finn. That is how, Finn exhibits his wild personality, though it is not as severe, as his father's. Finn does not wish to become a drinker, for instance, like his father. He knows what whiskey

Growing up as one of the outcast or black sheep amongst my classmates, it was very difficult. In a small town where most kids are so sheltered from other cultures and trends I was not widely expected for my choices most of the time. Whether it was my fashion, taste in music, or even just my different thought process, it got me some backlash from the other kids for a while.

I was on my way to school when I heard this low rumbling in the sky. We haven't had much activity in this part of the country, but over the last couple of weeks we have had government leaders setting up bases everywhere. Sometimes on my way to school, I can hear them talking about what they are going to nex to try to stay as far out of the Vietnam War as they can. I am almost to the school, it's such a long walk I can't wait for the school year to be over. Suddenly, I am flown to to the ground. I'm so scared right now, I don't know what to do. I turn around on my back and see a house burning to the ground. It was a bomb. I am so scared and I don't know what to do. Should I go to the school, or should I run home. I look at the sky, it is black

This novel follows the adventures of a young boy named Huckleberry Finn who fakes his death in order to escape an abusive father. As Finn finds his freedom, he helps the escaped slave Jim find his freedom in the free state of Illinois. The two battle the wild Mississippi river along with con-artists, bandits, and internal moral dilemmas.