The story of Huckleberry Finn is full of adventure and mayhem, good and bad, sad and happy. But throughout all of that the book has many themes with the story that help us connect with everyday life. A book about adventure and sadness. The name of the book is: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Written by Mark Twain. This book has many themes associated with it, the three important that I am going to talk about are Honor, Slavery, and civil vs natural life.
Honor is one thing that is heavily implied and dabbled in. Where Tom Sawyer tells about his belief and that there is a great deal of honor with thieving. Robbery goes though the novel. They meet robbers on a boat and are then forced to have to deal with the King and Duke who rob anyone they meet. Huck steals back from the King and they become the true thieves, but it's in the honorable way that they do it. So throughout the book honor is a big deal and really brings to life more things. It's a big theme and a big topic in life as well. Later in the book they make a plan to steal their friend Jim back who is in the bonds of slavery, this
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Jim and Huck don’t really know the fact of civil life. He smokes, has bad manners and is just all around an uncivilized person, has bad clothing. It isn’t till the Widow Douglass tries to help him learn that he sees more of what civil life is about. He refuses and doesn’t want to learn some of the new civil things. Twain dabbles with the ideas of how being in civil life can bring corrupt and wicked things. Not always being a good well thing that you might think it is. All in all the civil and natural life is one that is a primary theme throughout the novel. He is more or less frightened of things that might civilize him. Twain thinks that uncivilized life is more of what people want, far better than civil. All in all this theme is one that is great and is stressed greatly throughout the story but one that we can hopefully learn