How Is Huck Finn Self-Reliant

There are over five examples of Huck being self-reliant, and knowing his way around nature, along with over seven examples of him being clever and architectural throughout the book. Huck possess several qualities that are essential to survive on the frontier. Huck is self-reliant, architectural, and clever which, noted by several people, are vital for one to survive anywhere outside of a domestic setting.

Huckleberry Finn is not an ordinary child that grew up in an ordinary family with an ordinary life. At a young age, he was kidnapped by his father, and weeks later he escaped from his father’s captivity by staging his death; Huck then left on a raft to fend on his own and falling back on himself. This shows one very important quality that

These skills are classified as constructive skills, and one of Huck’s qualities that he possesses is constructive skills. At the beginning of Huck’s journey, he and Jim built a shelter on their raft for them to sleep in, and for Jim to hide in if he needed too. As for survival skill number four, Huck continuously builds fires to evade hunters and lookers, to cook food, and he builds fires to keep him and Jim warm. Mr. Davidson, along with several others, would say Huck is almost ready to survive life on a

Huckleberry Finn’s third quality that would--in addition to his self-reliance and construction skills-- allow him to survive on a frontier is his cleverness. Cleverness pairs perfectly with survival in Huck’s situation. When Huck finally decided to leave his father's captivity, he devised a clever plan that made everyone think he was dead when he actually was not. His clever plan consisted of killing a hog and using its blood as his own, dragging large bags of flour through the dirt, and throwing pieces of his hair around the scene to make it look as if there was a struggle; with this plan he was able to fool everyone in his hometown into thinking he had been murdered. Not only did Huck fool his hometown, he also tricked several slave hunters into believing that he did not have a runaway slave at his campsite, yet he had an ill