The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Literary Analysis

Huck is a free spirit who finds socially acceptable actions to be restrictive and unbearable. This is demonstrated after Huck and his best friend Tom Sawyer find a large amount of money. The Widow Douglas adopts Huck. With Widow Douglas, Huck feels as though society's values and norms

A work of literature can be read by ten different people, and it will be understood ten different ways; Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is no exception. At the end of the novel, Tom reveals his plans for the “evasion” which is relatively immoral, but Tom and Huck would never know whether it was or was not. In addition to its blind cruelty, it is misleading in that it seems as if it is meant to be interpreted, which is one reason why it is constantly critiqued. Another reason it is hotly debated is due to its contextual inconsistency and the potential underlying meanings of those anomalies. The multiple possibilities it opens up to the reader can be interpreted in a variety ways and has been by many literary critics. By using the commentary made on the “evasion” by literary critics, and through examples drawn from the novel itself, it will become evident that Twain did not write the “evasion” for any consistent reason, other than to fit the inconsistency of his novel.

However, Huck’s new morals cause him to struggle with the decision of what to do with Jim. (page 210) He understands that he is a slave, but he is also his friend. Huck then finally decides to save Jim because he thinks it is the right thing to do. Huck encounters Tom Sawyer (page 224) and Huck is now not only more practical than Tom, but Huck finds easier solutions to problems. Huck is now smarter than Tom and he is more realistic. Huck wonders why Tom would help them when he has so much to lose. (page 225-231) Huck and Jim help Tom when he gets shot trying to save Jim instead of just leaving him. (page

In the beginning of the book huck acts very childish kid who is uncivilized and has no morals. Huck had a very abusive father that was always drunk when huck was younger. Because of this a widow by the name of miss Watson gains cutody of huck. Miss Watson unlike huck is a very sivilized women with high morals. Huck then is kidnapped by his pap because huck had found a lot of gold. Huck then is able to escape and runs into one of miss watsons slaves witch is run away. His name is jim and he helps huck become a mature person through there experiences together.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a novel that is describing the life of a wild, adventurous boy, who is attempting to learn the difference between right and wrong. Mark Twain, the author of this book uses satire about religion, royalty, and the way people treat each other. Following the story of this adventurous young boy, the reader the true meaning of friendship, and family. Huckleberry, also known as Huck is striving to becoming civilized. By analysing the character of Huckleberry Finn, not only do you learn about the character, but also how he matures into a civilized young man.

Tom Sawyer is one of Huck’s friends that always talks about hitting licks on different people, and he isn’t that smart due to his exaggerating imagery used on pages 12 to 13. Miss Watson is a very religious woman that preaches to Huck about believing in god. Widow Douglas is not liked by huck because he “adopted and tried to “sivillize” Huck”.

He feels as if he was unwanted at a point and realizes they are not his blood relatives so he must be a burden. They seem bland to his as he wishes ro smoke, etc. they refuse it all.

The Widow Douglas has a lasting effect on Huckleberry’s morals and conscience throughout the book when Huckleberry made a good or a bad decision. She was similar to a “moral center”. An example of this is when Huckleberry attempts to help the robbers on the Walter Scott in chapter 13. In chapter 13, Huckleberry and Jim take the robber’s boat and leave the robbers on the sinking steamboat, instead of leaving them to die, Huckleberry tells a ferry watchman his family was on the sinking steamboat. He thought she would approve of this, because she always tried to help people lower than herself.

In the next few lines, Huck describes the events that have happened since the end of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Tom also influences Huck and gives in and returns to the Widow, but we begin to see his hatred and apathy for the society as the novel goes on. Moreover, it looks like the widow is affectionate towards Huck, since she feels like a mother to him. But Huck doesn’t feel that he can be her son because she would “sivilize” him and living in the house was getting tougher for Huck.

    Are society’s values always correct? As the time changes, society's viewpoint changes as well. For the majority, humans tend to be followers and continue to do the same actions that their society is acting in. But who says what is right or wrong? Few people tried to express how their really felt about society's actions through their talents, such as Mark Twain. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain tries to show how negative their society, a the time, really is through slavery, the schooling system and religious practices and beliefs,

In chapter one, the first person narrator, Huckleberry Finn, introduces himself and talks to the readers about his appearance in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. He then summarizes how that book ends, where is that he and his pal Tom found gold that robbers had hidden in a cave. Huck lives with the Widow Douglas who wants him to be civilized and respectable, which Huck doesn't like. The widow tries to conform Huck to religion. The widow lives with her sister Miss Watson who tries to teach Huck spell. Tom appears outside Huck's window that night and meows, and climbs out of his bedroom window and sneak away with Tom. In chapter two, Huck and Tom are trying to sneak away from the house. They come across Miss Watson's slave,

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

Huckleberry’s life is changed and influenced by Tom Sawyer, the widow, his father, Miss Watson, and Jim. Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry’s best friend, is a wild imagination often caused trouble for him and others. Throughout the book, Huck questions what he is doing, and wonders if Tom would do the same. He almost always decides Tom would agree with his decisions and be on his side. When Huck’s life completely turns around, he receives thousands of dollars and a place to stay with a widow from town.

Huckleberry’s childhood was not picture perfect. He grew up with a drunk father, being tossed around from place to place. Society is showing the young Huck that inhumane acts such as slavery are ok. Miss Watson teaches him the values of god. Huck has yet to realize why society is so complicated but he is reaching that mindset slowly.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is an adventure all on its own along much of the southern portion of America during the mid-1800s. Through Huck’s adventures, we see the hectic world of the Civil War era, shown through the eyes of a young lad who’s thrust into the middle of it all. Huckleberry Finn’s adolescence show how pure that early stage of life is, how long it takes for one to grow, and how it adds excitement and liveliness to the novel.