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Huck's Devices: Response

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Mackenzie Hadsall Ms. Scott AP Language - 3rd Period 10/30/15 Quote Device Response “...[The widow] sent a man over to get hold of me, but Pap drove him off with the gun, and it warn’t long after that till I was used to being where I was, and liked it, all but the cowhide part…” Setting The cabin represents loneliness, a feeling in which shows up repeatedly. This piece of text shows that Huck establishes issues with his mental health due to his father’s consistent beating, although he begins to enjoy the idea of being unaccompanied. The cabin is significant for the reason that it motivates him to run off, which was challenging. Huck decides he does not want to go back to The Widow’s house considering he doesn’t want to follow regulations
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Huck’s desire to be away from development leads to his escape from Pap’s abusive control and discovery of Jim on jackson island. Huck’s desire to be away from development is seen when Huck said, “ didn’t want to go back to the widows anymore and be so cramped up and civilized”(Twain 26). Huck’s desire to be away from civilization was destined to be his first call to adventure. Although Huck Found his call to adventure no hero’s journey goes without challenges.

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(p.71) Huck did not need to go back to get Jim, He could have ran away by himself for a better chance of survival, but he didn 't think twice as to help Jim as well. Huck thinks of Jim as Human while Mrs.Loftus thinks of him as more of an animal saying “ They 'll go after him at midnight.. he’ll likely be asleep, and they can slip around through the woods and hunt up his camp fire all the better for the dark, if he 's got one.” It sounds like he 's about ready to go hunt for a deer

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In addition, due to the way he was treated, the woods felt like more of a home than his house. Despite Huck's difficult and challenging childhood, he didn't

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Additionally Huck can be seen as being the rebellious kid because once everyone in the house is asleep he hears a faint cat meowing only the sneak out the window and find Tom,” Then i slipped down the window to the ground and crawled in amongst the trees, and sure enough there was Tom Sawyer waiting for me.” (Twain 6) From that moment he decided to leave the home to go with Tom that showed he didn't really care that the two ladies would get mad at

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Though they have different motives for leaving their pasts, both characters feel they need to leave the life they have settled into. For Huck, he needs to escape his abusive father and confinement of the cabin. He suffers through living with his father for a while, but Huck becomes so miserable he cannot stay any longer. He even adds that “it was dreadful lonesome,” saying “[he] made up [his] mind [that he] would fix up some way to leave there” (Twain 34). In this moment, Huck determines he will not live confined to some shack in the woods, stifled by his father’s rules.

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In the book, it is told to us that Huck hates the life the widow makes him live. With the proper mannerisms he isn’t used to, the boring routines, my childhood wasn’t much different from his. Though I have more freedoms now, I was confined to a small house growing up. It was once in a blue moon I was ever allowed to go exploring with friends, and we never went very far even when we did.

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In this moment of reflection, Huck is therefore able to remove the stigma society places on him being friends with Jim because of their races; he is able to think for himself without the fear of society’s influence or thought on his choices. When Huck wakes up in the

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However, Huck’s dad appears one night and whisks him away to a small cabin deep in the woods. Huck is okay at first with the constant supervision his dad casts on him, but his dad’s drinking slowly begins to change his mind. He finally decides to escape while his dad is away in town by making it look like Huck was murdered and the cabin was robbed. Huck escapes to a small island near St.

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Throughout the rest of Huck 's journey he continues to meet people along the way that believe themselves to be good civilized people but they all contradict that in some way. The Grangerford 's are in a murdering feud with another family, the Phelps own slaves and are trying to get a reward for Jim, the townspeople that feather and tar the Duke and King without a trial, the execution of Boggs, even the Widow tells Huck not to smoke but takes snuff herself. Huck spends a large amount of time in the book pondering over how to be good and do the right things, and at the end of the book when he decides to go West and leave it all behind he has finally realized that he 's not the one that 's bad, society is. Huck heads back out into the world not for more adventure, but to get away from

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He would lock Huck in a shed alone for hours upon hours and Huck would be forced to turn the other cheek and take the hits. These action cause Huck to feel that he could not stand up for himself. Being that he is just a young boy, this period of time in ones life make experiences and emotions change who one is, thus impacting his whole view of society. After the new and oblivious judge gave custody of Huck to pap, Huck tries to go on with his normal schedule but

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