Huckleberry Finn The Real World Analysis

Connections Between the Real World and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the Context of the Journey to Freedom.

What are the similarities and differences between the journey to freedom of innocent Huckleberry Finn and the same journey of migrants fleeing Syria’s bloody civil war? Well, obviously, Huck Finn’s journey, as conveyed by the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, and the journeys of the migrants are different because each story has a different origin, motivation, and reasoning behind it. Huck absconds the grasp of one, mostly powerless man, while the migrants are absconding the most powerful man in their country. However, a similarity exists because Huck and the migrants are both fleeing one man that forces them

But why does that matter in the context of the journey to freedom? What truly matters is the outcome. Although the ending is mostly pointless, Huck is liberated from his fear, while the fate of the migrants is yet to be seen. In conclusion, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written for our enjoyment, but the book is so engaging that the journey to freedom of the characters in the novel can be compared and contrasted with that journey of real people in the past and present.

First of all, connections between the Syrian migrant crisis and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that pertain to the journey to freedom can be made. One way in which the crisis and the novel relate to each other is that Huck and the migrants are both fleeing a man that forces them to live in fear every day. In Huck’s case, that man is his father, Pap. To me, it’s obvious that Huck lives in fear of Pap. For example, Huck “…found his tracks in the snow. What I (Huck) wanted to know was, what he was going to do, and was he going to stay?” (Twain 26). In this quote, Huck was asking Jim, who believes in the paranormal and superstitious, to translate a reading of his future for him from

This theme is inserted into literature because it is timeless. In the time period The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written, world events had happened and were happening that involved a journey to freedom. As a result, that theme was very personal to Mark Twain, as it is personal to readers today. And because of writers like Twain, the idea of the journey to freedom has become entertaining to readers because of the suspense, adventure, risk involved in it, and the fact that its influence can be so easily connected to real-life experiences and past and present