Huckleberry Finn Adventure Analysis

Name- Chofia Basumatary

Programme- MA English

The Idea of “Adventure” in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens took a span of about seven years to complete Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which is considered as one of his best known works. Twain outlined his fiction in a local milieu as could be found in his Adventures of Huckleberry Finn distributed in 1884, where he discusses the occurrences along the Mississippi river district. He composed the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is the tale of an uneducated boy, who developed to being a dependable person through seeing and dismissing the sentimental unreliability of his reality for a more reasonable rationality of his own and that which he learned

Huck Finn, the most ‘acclaimed’ American kid (at the time), depicts a nostalgic come back to the sort of life any kid might want to have. He skims relaxed down the Mississippi River, having a wide range of energizing undertakings, and winds up by going west. He escapes his brutal father and overtly ‘civilizing’ Miss Watson and Widow Douglas with a runaway slave, Jim. The apparent reason for the voyage is to take Jim to freedom. Huck has ‘killed’ himself to escape from his dad, in the future he gets to be a wide range of persons at diverse junctures along the

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Huck’s notion of adventure is very much different from that of his friend Tom Sawyer. As we know Tom Sawyer was his best friend and was the one who would gather the gangs of his fellow friends only because he had read it in some book but seriously had no idea about it. Tom Sawyer talked about long oaths of honor, savagery, bravery but he could never exercise it. When asked by his fellow friend what a ‘ransom’ meant Tom said he dint have the slightest idea what it was but that the pirates’ book said so. In the same episode we see that Huck Finn questions his own judgment over Tom Sawyer’s teachings and reflects on it through the innocent eyes of a child. He thinks:

“So then I judged that all that stuff was only just one of

Tom Sawyer’s lies. I reckoned he believed in the A-rabs and the elephants, but as for me I think different”. (Twain. 15) It can indeed be confirmed that the adventure Huck was searching for came to reality with his long voyage, when he met different characters and circumstances on his way but which was rather ghastly and violent. The encounter with the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons and those with the thieves can be described as the violent versions of any fairytale or children’s stories. Thus, it is arguable if Twain had ever wanted to make it a children’s text and not into an elaborate expansion of the unreliable adult