Examples Of Water In Huckleberry Finn

Many people are inclined to idealize the land to be place in which a firm grasp of reality can be held up, while in actuality the flowing tranquility of water represents a true sense of freedom as it displays a need for one to observe the world without being caught up in its turmoil. This is truly seen in Huckleberry Finn, first published in 1884, which is Mark Twain's masterpiece entailing the fortunes and cataclysms of Jim, a slave by law, and a young white boy, Huckleberry Finn, on their voyage to freedom. As the pair flees from their hometown, one seeks to escape the bonds of slavery, and the other to gain personal freedom away from the authoritarian rules dictating his stature in society. Though the only way to escape deep into the North

We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. 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" (Twain 96). Huck clings to the hope of freedom only seen present on the raft but rarely seen sometimes even on the people of the land such as the Wilks girls. This quote represents a sense of concord among the members of the raft on the ever so slow journey to an ever lasting escape. Not only is this quote so remarkable in its statement, but also a concluding one Huck indicates saying, "light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally. she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it" (Twain 229). Huck having his fill of a fake version of being civilized, seeks to escape this plague-full idea and continue his journey to freedom after his previous journey on land and water came to an end. Huck would endure this sort of civilization built upon slavery and cruelty onto the weaklings of the social hierarchy until he arrived at the Territories, barren of civilization but garnering a true free wilderness without