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Huckleberry Finn Research Paper

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Huckleberry Finn
Samuel Langhorne Clements, also worldly know as Mark Twain, has had a detrimental effect on American literature and the way we tell stories today. He was an American humorist, novelist and journalist that made his impact and dominated the 18th and 19th century. He acquired international fame by doing travel narratives and his adventure stories. In 1885 he wrote the famous The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a book that is said all modern American literature came from and one of the greatest American works of art. The book was so profoundly known because of the underlining themes, some of the themes being slavery/racism, growing up, and freedom.
Mark Twain wrote the book, The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn after the abolition …show more content…

Huck’s abusive father went so far as to imprison him in a cabin. He wants to be free from his father, his father’s and the typical white persons way of thinking and acting towards the black race. Huck wants to be freely and independently able to do and act the way his heart feels and tells him to do. He ran away due to not wanting to be civilized by Widow Douglas. He said, “The Widow Douglas, she took me for her son, and allowed she would civilize me, but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the Widow was in all her ways, and so when I couldn’t hand it no longer, I lit out.” (Page 1) Similarly, Jim’s main freedom is just to be able to say he’s a free man and to be one. His foremost goal which he knows as his natural right, is to be free from bondage with the purpose of returning to his wife and children. Jim ran away because he overheard that he was being sold for $800, and by him being sold there was no longer a way to see his family. Huck and Jim both go to pursue freedom in the natural world. The Mississippi River resembles freedom because they use the river to escape and make their way to freedom. Even though the natural world comes with its problems, they both see it to be a haven from civilization and society, which they both are seeking for. They are both aloud

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