In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain’s establishment of the Mississippi River exemplifies freedom. With Huck and Jim looking for a way to get up to the north to escape from the harshness portrayed in the south, the Mississippi River provides a free path to the north. Huck finds “part of a log raft” floating down the river, and so he “towed it ashore” (34). Freedom can come from little objects life gives you. The Mississippi River “was very wide” and also “was walled with solid timber” on the sides of it (90). Freedom can allow for you to be tired at some moments. Without the Mississippi, Huck and Jim’s freedom was lost and they were “heavy and tiresome” with the Duke and Dauphin taking over the raft (159). Unwanted circumstances