Freedom is the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved. For Huck and Jim imprisonment and enslavement is all they’ve ever known. The only way to get away from the restraints of society for the two is the Mississippi River. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain takes place on the Mississippi River with a runaway slave and a white boy as traveling passengers. The river represents freedom from society for the two. In society's eyes, Jim is not a human, but a piece of property. On the river, he is just a man. The readers got a first glimpse of how the river represents freedom when Jim explains how he ran away to Jackson Island. Jim says that if he got away on foot, the dogs would track him, but since he took a raft on the river, they