Religion In Huckleberry Finn

This mighty body of water is one that has been a huge landmark, tourist attraction, and ally for trade throughout history. Since it’s so vital, it’s no wonder that Twain depicted it so beautifully, and used it as such a key symbol. Huck writes, “It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened” (Twain 138). This paints a tranquil scene for our readers to fantasize about what it was like floating down the river, admiring the stars and feeling free, which was their goal the whole time. But the river itself serves as a symbol for independence, and Huck learns many quality lessons about what comes with independence. Obviously the basics like how to stay afloat, find food, etc., but also many imperative moral lessons. Being self-sufficient means there’s nobody around to tell you what’s right and what’s wrong. Huck goes through a major character shift after befriending Jim. He learns that Jim is a real person, and that he should be treated as such. They need each other to survive; one of them isn’t following the other. They’re equal, which was a huge realization for Huck as well. It is because of abolitionists like Huck (although I’m sure he didn’t realize he was one) that black people eventually got the rights they deserved. These days, diversity

In this section, insight into the character of Jim is portrayed. Jim comes across as sincere and trustworthy. The loyalty of Jim and Huck to each other begins to be seen. An example of Jim’s loyalty is seen when Jim is overjoyed to find Huck is still alive after they are separated in the fog. During this section, it begins to be apparent that Jim would be willing to sacrifice to be sure that Huck is safe but Huck does not yet return those feelings. During this section, Huck’s moral dilemma about helping a slave escape begins to surface. The fact that the relationship is strengthening is revealed when Huck lies about having smallpox on their raft in order to prevent Jim from being caught as a slave. Huck again assumes several identities during this section, which reveal much about him. On the raft, Huck is very mature and responsible. He becomes the son of a

     Life on the river was also good at first, but it also became tiresome for Huck. He liked the sense of freedom that he had while he was on the river with Jim, he didn't have to go to school nor did he have any rules that he had to live by. He didn't have to worry about what his father was going to do to him. However the river still set limits on their freedom, Jim and Huck were only able to travel at night because they were afraid of Jim being found and whenever they would stop for the day, they would have to cover up the raft with leaves and foliage. Huck did not like having to be the one that would have to go look for food and water for them, he never had to be responsible until this time and, he didn't like having to use such precautions so that Jim would not be found. Huck could have made life easier for himself and turned Jim in, but he looked at him as a friend not as a fugitive slave.

The first book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, features Huck, who narrates his adventures along the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave. Huck escapes from his alcoholic, abusive father early in the book, and, immediately thereafter, is primarily concerned with his own survival and contentment. However, even these basic amenities are threatened as he continues his voyage south. First and foremost, Huck must survive in the wild, a task he undertakes with remarkable skill and resourcefulness. Early on in the novel, Huck's skill at living in the wilderness is plainly established, and the reader never doubts his ability to provide for himself.

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

While he was trapped at his father’s cabin, his father told him to go to the river to see if there were fish on the lines for breakfast. Huck explains, “He unlocked the door and I cleared out, up the river bank. I noticed some pieces of limbs and such things floating down, and a sprinkling of bark; so I knowed the river had begun to rise. I reckoned I would have great times, now, if I was over at the town. The June rise used to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins, here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts-sometimes a dozen logs together; so all you have to do is to catch them and sell them to the wood yards and the sawmill. …Well, all at once, here come a canoe” (Twain 30). When Huck saw these objects floating in the water, he saw the water as his source for freedom, or his escape from the captivity of his father’s cabin. Remembering his luck that came with the June rise, Huck was filled with the hope of escaping and being free. Huck took the canoe and hid it from his father until Huck used it to escape down the river. Because Huck knew he was free, he said, “All right; I can stop anywhere I want to. Jackson’s Island is good enough for me; I know that island pretty well, and nobody ever comes there. And then I can paddled over to town, nights, and slink around and pick up things I want. Jackson’s

There are few reasons why this quote is important for this book. The first reason why it is important is because; it shows what raft represents for Jim and Huck: it represents freedom, of equality, of hope. Huck and Jim builds up friendship on the raft, in 1835-1845 there were severe racism in the society but, because Jim and Huck are removed from social constraints they were able to build friendship. Secondly, it shows how Huck feels toward civilized life: Huck is much more at ease when he is removed from societal rules and structures. On the raft, ideas of morality and rules do not exist, which makes Huck’s life much more delightful.

As they run from civilization and are on the river, they ponder the purpose of the social injustices forced upon them when they are on land. The river is unbiased and does not judge how saintly they are, how rich they are, or how society views of them. The river allows Huck the one thing that Huck wants to be, and that is

For instance the Grangerfords Family were a rich family that all had servants. They may have had everything but they live in a world of fear and hate. They've had a hardcore feud going on with the nearby Shepherdson clan for about thirty years, and each family is intent on killing off the other, one by one, until no one's left standing. Even Buck Grangerford, a boy around Huck's age, has violence on his mind all the time. Then they finally ended up killing a Grangerford. Huck said how “it made me so sick I most fell out of the tree. I ain’t a- going to tell all that happened-it would make me sick again if I was to do that. I wished I hadn’t ever come ashore that night to see such things”(115). Huck felt different here and he liked the Grangerford but they were killed right in front of him. It made Huck feel sick and horrified. Huck is going to want to be away from all the danger and hate. The raft is a perfect place to be where no one can get him. Also Huck and Jim came across a dead body when they came upon a house on the river. What needs to be considered is that Huck is a little boy who is seeing all this hate in the world so he is going to want a safe place to hid which is the

If Huck was at home, he would be subject to his father’s abuse, but the raft creates freedom for Huck to do as he pleases while protecting him from the society he lives in. Furthermore, on the raft, Huck and Jim have to talk and develop a friendship. Huck learns to love Jim and exclaims, “poor Jim” when he the king sold Jim into slavery (Twain 196). While on the raft, Huck and Jim develop a friendship learn to love each other. The raft provides a way to create a safe place for Jim and Huck to do become friends and protects them from the American society and standards of a white male and a black male being friends. Huck and Jim are free to become friends without critics all because of the raft. When off the raft, Huck faces difficulties. The first incident of Huck getting off the raft is to look at a wrecked steamship. Huck gets off the raft, goes on the boat, and looks around. When realizing the boat has a gang threatening murder, he tries to leave, but he gets “shut up on a wreck with such a gang” (Twain 66). He is stuck on the boat with thieves threatening murder and has no way to transportation. After searching, Huck finds the raft and escapes the boat. When Huck is off the raft, Huck sees the

Huckleberry Finn is a young boy who struggles with complex issues such as empathy, guilt, fear, and morality in Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". There are two different sides to Huck. One is the subordinate, easily influenced boy whom he becomes when under the "guide" of Tom Sawyer. His other persona surfaces when he is on his own, thinking of his friendship with Jim and agonizing over which to trust: his heart or his conscience. When Huck's ongoing inner struggle with his own duality forces him to makes difficult and controversial choices, the reader sees a boy in the throes of moral development. And it is, indeed, a struggle. Although Huck believes in the rules of the harshly racist society in which he lives, a deeper and

Jim ran away from the custody of Mary Warren in hopes of escaping the town. Huck bonds well with Jim because he has more moral similarity with Jim than he does with white society. Jim is black and an uneducated slave. Despite the deisadvantages, he remains intelligent and a good role model for Huck. Jim spreads many messages to Huck, but one of the main ones is to be thankful for what you have; “It lays in de way Sollerum was raised. You take a man dat’s got on’y one or two chillen; is dat man gwyne be wasteful o’chillen? No he ain’t; he can’t ‘ford it. He know how to value ‘em,” (Twain 78). Jim is talking about the Great King Soloman and how greedy he is, and then proceeds to describe another person who does not have much in life but cherishes what they do have. Huck develops a deep relationship with Jim when they are isolated on a raft; “For what you want, above all things, on a raft, is for everybody to be satisfied, and feel right and kind towards the others,” (Twain 125).The solitude of the raft allows Jim and Huck to escape society. Even as other characters in the book invade the peacefulness of the raft with society’s evils, Huck’s close friendship with Jim prevails. Huck’s natural instinct is to protect his friend rather than turn in the runaway slave. Jim represents the goodness of society, and he brings out Huck’s best

Furthermore, the novel illustrates the unrestricted freedom the river provides through the connection with nature, independence from slavery, and the pair’s relationship. After escaping the clutches of the restrictive lifestyle of Miss Watson and the violent relationship with his father, Huck seeks refuge in the waters surrounding himself with nature, considering it as his home as he proclaims, “...there warn’t no home like the raft…Other places feel so cramped and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft” (Twain 117). As Jim escapes from civilization towards life on the raft where open friendship and freedom that the river provides overcome prejudice against racism and slavery, he grows as an individual as he declares risking his life and freedom for Huck, “my heart wuz mos’' broke bekase you wuz los’, en I didn' k'yer no mo'

"so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags, and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied” (Page 1). Right from the beginning you see that he doesn’t want anybody to control him. “Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.” (Page 116). Huck's goals are to get away from that controlling life that he was being forced to live and lead a continuation of the unrestricted life that he thrived for.

Mark Twain also demonstrates how undesirable civilized society really is. Both Huck and Jim desire freedom, which greatly contrasts the existing civilization along the river. They both turn to nature to escape from the unprincipled ways of civilization. Huck wants to escape from both the proper, cultured behavior of Miss Watson and Widow Douglas and the tyranny of his father. Jim, on the other hand, hopes to escape from slavery and start a new life as a free man, hopefully with his own family eventually. Throughout the novel, the raft enables Huck and Jim to escape from the barbarism of their society to a place of serenity and peace, which is always on their raft, away from any other people. Through the duration of the story, Huck learns and does many things that would be contrary to the beliefs of society such as helping Jim