Essay On Huckleberry Finn And Raft Society

In the book “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Both Jim and Huck are outsiders who must escape from their problems in society, in Jim’s case, being a slave, and for Huck, his abusive father. They run into each other on an island and travel on a raft through the South. On the raft Jim and Huck experience an equal society, while while on the shore it is the opposite. Raft Society allows Jim and Huck to make their own rules that Shore Society prohibits. Jim and Huck, as outcasts from Shore Society, find freedom and acceptance in Raft Society. Raft Society provides equality for Jim and Huck, that they are missing in Shore Society. Raft Society is “free and easy” where everyone is equal, whereas in Shore Society there is always a social hierarchy. Black and whites are rarely treated the same, but on the raft, a man is a man, despite the color of his skin. After Huck runs into Jim, he notices a change in himself that would be frowned upon in Shore Society. He put a rattlesnake in Jim’s pants, while he was sleeping, but after that Huck “didn't do him no more mean tricks, and [he] wouldn't done

Huck is an outsider with little friends and family, and Jim is trapped as a slave in their town. Shore society revolves around social classes and mandatory responsibilities, while Raft Society provides a relaxing, responsibility-free zone. On the raft, Huck does not have to do what his parents and teachers tell him to do, and Jim is not owned by anyone. When Jim decides to steal his children from their slave owner, Huck struggles between reporting Jim or helping him. Even though they are Jim’s children, Huck thinks they are property and that they belong to their owner, and “it most froze [him] to hear such talk. [Jim] wouldn’t ever dared to talk such talk in his life before.” Even though Huck’s views of equality are changing, he still struggles between what he, as a white person, must