The N-Word in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Significance of Closing Scene: Huck, always the free spirit, decides to journey into Indian Territory to avoid Aunt Sally’s attempts to “sivilize him”. This shows Huck’s independence as well as his constant yearning for adventure. Huck says that he is done writing, claiming that it takes to much work.

They turn on each other as well as anyone else in a heartbeat in order to make some money. These con-men were allowed to stay on Huck’s raft, running cons on a multitude of towns during their journey. The King does not reciprocate this kindness to Huck and Jim. Instead, he decides to sell Jim. The group arrive at a new town, and the King goes out to see if they have gotten news of their Royal Nonesuch scam yet. The King doesn’t come back, so Huck and the Duke go looking for him. They eventually find him in a bar, and the King and Duke get into a fight. Huck decides to run away and goes back to the raft to leave with Jim, but Jim isn’t there. Huck asks someone nearby if they say anyone take Jim, and he says a stranger sold him for $40. Huck realizes that it was the King and confronts the Duke about it, “Hain’t he run off?’ ‘No! That old fool sold him, and never divided with me and the money’s gone’” (Twain 216). This action alone shows the King and Duke’s disloyalty. Also, when they were talking, the Duke wasn’t bothered with the fact that Jim was sold, but rather that the King didn’t split the money with him. Throughout the novel, Jim teaches Huck about loyalty, and is then betrayed and sold. Huck goes from thinking of Jim as a slave to thinking of him as a human. However, with the King and the Duke, Huck believes they are cool at first, but by the end of the book he thinks

Huckleberry Finn is a about a boy who wants to be part of this robber gang by Tom Sawyer, but in order to get into the gang Huck has to be a respectable young man. Huck is not liking his new living situations, but he ends up sticking it out to be part of the gang. Huck’s dad arrives in town, but not for a good reason, his dad ends up kidnapping him and taking him to a cabin across the river. Every night Hucks father goes out he returns drunk and beats huck. Tired of his confinement and fearing the beatings will worsen, Huck escapes from Pap by faking his own death, killing a pig and spreading its blood all over the cabin. After he escapes Huck ends up waiting on an island when he discovers an old friend that goes by the name Jim. Little does Huck know, but after he and Jim gets off the island Jim will help Huck throughout the rest of the

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

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,

Tom comes up with a plan to free Jim; Huck believes that this plan will get them killed but goes along with it not being able to come up with something better. Miraculously, they are able to free Jim, yet a pursuer shoots Tom in the leg. Forced to get a doctor, Jim sacrifices his freedom to nurse Tom. When Tom wakes the next morning, he reveals that Jim has actually been a free man all along because Miss Watson made a provision in her will to free Jim. Tom had planned the entire escape idea all as a game and had intended to pay Jim for his troubles. Aunt Sally appears offering adopt Huck, but is denied when Huck announces he will be moving to the west.

“When I lit my candle and went up to my room that night there sat pap—his own self!” states Huck. Pap is outraged with the education and the financial situation the Huck has found himself in. Pap is an alcohol-driven psychopath. The judge of the town then declares that Pap has custody over Huck, even when the widow is fighting to keep Huck in her custody. Pap begins to threaten Huck about multiple aspects of his life with the widow, especially the education he has been receiving. Huck decides that he doesn’t want to be with Pap anymore and generates thoughts and ideas of escaping into his head. Huck says “I judged I would saw out and leave that night if pap got drunk enough, and I reckoned he would.” After drinking, Pap’s threatening becomes violent when he threatens to kill Huck with a knife, but is then stopped by passing out. Huck is then proposed a moral question while pointing the shotgun at his father’s head: does he end his father’s life right here or does he leave this town for good? Huck chooses to make his great escape. Later, Huck finds a canoe stranded on the river, and develops a plan. He escapes from the house, steals anything of great value to Pap, and figures out a way to fake his own death. He slits the throat of a pig and stages the blood to make it seem like he has been kidnapped and killed, then makes his way to Jackson Island, where his adventures

Huck escapes to Jackson Island, there he watches the rest of the town trying to find his body upond the rivah. He meets a runaway slave who went by the name of Jim. The two paired up together, and decided theyd make a nice life together travelling down the

Aunt sally and The uncle get a mysterious letter which she finds odd therefore right after dinner she sends the two boys to bed, and Huck looks out through the window and sees that there are fifteen un easy locall farmers with guns which have gathered at their front porch and they start attacking the shed. Huck runs to the shed to warn Tom and Jim but that only excites Tom, they escape through a hole they had made in the wall and escape and make it to their canoe safely, and set sail down stream. They are happy to have succeeded, and Tom having a bullet wound in his leg is especially excited. They call for a doctor which outs Jims life and freedom at risk. Huck thinks to himself why jim has compassion for white men swell he thinks to himself

After punishing Huck for getting his clothes dirty during the night out with Tom, the widow tries to explain a prayer to him. Huck however gives up on it fairly quickly for it did not answer any of his requests. Meanwhile a rumor is going around about Huck’s Pap, who he has not seen in a year, being found dead. The corpse was found in a river, thought to be Pap because of its “ragged” appearance. The face, however, was unrecognizable. After a month the boys decide to give up on Tom’s gang, since they hadn’t killed anyone nor robbed anyone. They decided to play a different kind of game in which they invaded an area and took their possessions. Tom told Huck about a picnic area where there was a caravan full of Arabs and Spaniards. However kept Huck insisting it was a Sunday-school picnic. They finally attack but only come out with a few doughnuts and jam. Huck starts to think that most of Tom’s stories have been lies.

The main character is Huckleberry Finn, also called Huck. Huck is the thirteen-year-old son of the local drunk of St. Petersburg, Missouri, a town on the Mississippi River. He is frequently forced to survive on his own wits and always a bit of an outcast. Huck is thoughtful, intelligent (though formally uneducated), and willing to come to his own conclusions about important matters, even if these conclusions contradict society’s norms (Sparknotes Editors, 2002).

Then he runs away because he doesn’t like not being able to smoke or wear his old cloths or go to school. He runs away. She gets really sad, so Tom talks him into going back. After a while he gets tired of it and goes for good. He hears that his dad is coming to town and he knows that he will take all of his money that he, and Tom found in an old house that a bank robber put in there. So he signs it over to the judge that gives him and Tom an allowance one dollar a day from the money that they found. Then Hucks dad locks him in his cabin. Huck brakes out, then he kills a pig and spreads its blood all inside the cabin. He made a blood trail out to the river. He was trying to make it look like he got murdered and thrown into the river. He meets up with Jim, and they make a raft and go on a lot of

While on the Mississippi River Huck and Jim run into a few problems. First, Jim and Huck find an old abandoned house on the river where they went in to search while Huck was in one room Jim opened another only to find Pap laying there dead. Later on down the river Huck and Jim rescue a pair of men cleary con artists, claim to be a displaced English duke and the long-lost heir to the French throne. Powerless and scared to tell two white adults to leave, Huck and Jim continue down the river with the pair of aristocrats. The duke and the dauphin pull several scams in the small towns along the river to make it rough on Huck and

In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is about a young boy named Huckleberry Finn who tries to help Jim, a slave, escape from slavery. In the novel there are many types of words that can make it seem offensive to the human culture. Mark Twain uses the “n word” in the novel to show the reader that in those times many slaves were savagely treated. However, despite the use of the “n word”, a couple of years ago there was a new edition printed of the book Huckleberry Finn by Alan Gribben, who was a professor at Auburn University. As the new edition of the book was released the “n word” was replaced to the word “slave”. Many people were shocked of how the new edition was changed from its original form and how this book should be removed from public libraries and high school all because of the “n word”.

He stops at Jackson's Island concluding that he was going to live there. He later finds Miss Watson’s slave Jim on the island.Jim was frightened because Miss Watson was debating on selling jim therefore Jim ran away. When Jim saw Huck he was terrified because he thought that Huck was a ghost since Huck faked his death everyone in town thought that he was dead.Later Huck left the island disguised as a woman named Sarah Williams from Hookerville he does this to find out if anyone was looking for him and Jim.This causes Huck to find out that the townsfolk were going to go to the Jackson’s island to look for Jim. Huck and Jim immediately left the island. They had many adventures while floating down the river.Which then they embark to Illinois town of Cairo so Jim can be free because if they take the Ohio river Jim can make it to the free