Huck Finn Reflection

Exploring the big wide world in a canoe and a raft, evading death by gunshot wounds, impersonating people to save their own skin. Boy, would it be exciting to live the way Huck Finn did.In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story follows Huck, a young boy, who fakes his death and runs away to find something different than what he’s got and is accompanied by Jim, a slave of his old caretaker.He encounters many challenges on his journey, but learns todeal with them andovercome them.This book is still importantto read even today as it lends insightinto the setting ofthe American 1830’sand 40’s,it teaches kids to become independent and grow up, and that companionship and friendship

I been there before.”(292).His travels taught him enough to go out and livewithout people needing to take care of him because he’d learned to do it himself.A third reason why kids should still read this book in school today is that it teaches them that society cannot dictate who a person can and cannot associate, and become friendswith.Huck and Jim started on their journey by running into each other by chance. They weren’t particularly close at the start, since Jim was a black slave and Huck was a white boy. However, they embarked upon a journey that let them forge a bond with each other through their hardships and trials. When Jim was almost discovered by other white folk who could’ve recaptured him and sold him to new people, Huck protected him by making up a story that his dadwas really sick. Later,Huck was struggling with his views on whether he should tell Miss Watson about Jimbeing found by some people and capturedor not. After writing a note that would alert Miss Watson of Jim’s capture, he rememberedhis friendship withJimfriendship:“I’d see him standing my watch...stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping...and would always call me honey, and pet me, and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was...and then I happen to look around,and see that paper...and then I says to myself: ‘Allright, then, I’ll go to hell’-and I tore it up.”(215).He decided that Jim’s freedom and friendship was more important to him than the things that could happen to him. He showed his real loyalty toward Jim when he helped to free him from the Phelpseven though itwas risky.Over all, Huck found a wonderful friend in Jim even though their society would see it as wrong because Jim was a slave and Huck was