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Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a very intriguing read that covers the racial controversial affairs of the past. Mark Twain is very brilliant in his writing and this book was no exception. Though similar to Tom Sawyer in writing style and setting, this novel stands a part and is different in numerous ways. I earnestly enjoyed reading it and know it will be loved for generations to come. To no surprise, Huckleberry Finn is the main character, protagonist, and narrator of this novel. As the book begins, he is a young boy, of age thirteen, with an abhorrent father that is constantly drunk and violent. Despite lacking the normal support system a child should have, Huck is able to face the challenges thrown at him. He is not educated …show more content…

He too looked to run away from his troubles and start a better life. It was much harder for him though, as he was a slave and was less educated than Huck. He was especially brave for running away as he knew it could bring him a great deal of trouble. He looked up to Huck for treating him better than the others did and remained loyal to him through all of the journey. He was very superstitious and this was generated partly because of his lack of education and also because of his fear for more bad luck in his life. As the plot progresses, Huckleberry becomes more aware of Jim’s genuine personality and it is a strengthening factor in their …show more content…

This is a big moment as on many occasions before this, Huck wanted to stay friends with Jim, but was not completely sold on the idea that what he was doing was alright. Until this point he was constantly conflicted with whether or not he should turn in Jim. When he decided to save him from slavery, it was bigger than just letting him stay on the raft or not turning him in. He went out of his way to actively save a friend and break the law. At this moment he grew as an individual and decided he did not care about what everyone else believed, but what he had come to know himself. It reveals that adults can determine what children will

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Huck has always seen Jim as a slave until they crossed paths while going down the river. The two develop a friendship and Huck starts to care about Jim and his well being. Although Huck views Jim as someone he cares about, he still sees him as a slave as well. “ I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write that nigger’s owner and tell where he was,” ( Document E). Huck is in a continuous battle with his inner self when it comes to his views on Jim.

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Huck had a plight while on the run with the runaway slave, Jim. Harvesting and helping a runaway slave was a crime, but Huck just could not let Jim go. Huck cared immensely for Jim as any friend would. That much was a risk worth taking to Huck. In document E, Huck says, “‘All right, then, I’ll go to hell’ -and tore it up.”

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Huck experiences things normal people have never experienced, this allows him to embrace the people around him and mature as a person. Growing up he was taught to turn in people like Jim, he questions this belief and is once close of doing so. Then he realizes what good would it do

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Starting from a young age, everyone loves to go on adventures and have fun, just like Huck Finn. Growing up in St. Petersburg, Missouri, he is a white 12 year old boy and the son of a drunken father. In the beginning of the book, Huck is seen as a little innocent boy. Until he enters the world with his friend, Tom Sawyer, as they go on adventures, which creates problems and controversy through the history of the North and South, civilization, and racism and slavery. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck has many controversial experiences that are still a problem in today’s society, which is why we should keep teaching the book in school.

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Jim cares dearly for Huck and treats him like a son. When they were separated Jim is more concerned with Huck’s well being than his own, showing his selflessness and maturity. Huck never having anyone truly care about him, doesn’t know how to react and decides rather than give back affection, to prank Jim: "What's the matter with you, Jim? You been a-drinking?"’(ch 15 p 83), Huck acts like the whole ordeal never even happened to lighten the mood. Eventually when Jim catches on to the prank, he is not at all amused.

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Jims comment “You’s de only fren’ ole Jims got now,” stops Huck from turning him in. Although helping a runaway slave was viewed as bad in society it was virtually correct. Jim is the only one who educates Huck with world values and morals, unlike his previous mentors who would just worry about what society believed was

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This was important at the end when Huck was debating on his action plan after Jim was sold back into slavery by the King and the Duke. He could either choose to abandon Jim or he could try and save him from captivity. This was a time when Huck thought about his friendship with Jim. He remembers all the time with Jim when he “would always call me honey, and pet me, and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had smallpox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he's got now.” These positive and sweet thoughts of Jim’s character makes Huck choose to save him rather than abandon him.

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Huckleberry Finn is a significant character in Twain’s novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Typically anyone who reads this novel gains a sense of knowledge of what it was like to live in such times. In this book, Huck undergoes many types of occurrences ranging from manufacturing a gang with his friends to dressing up as a girl. Huck also is involved in more serious and controversial events that mentally force Huck to think like an adult. Readers get to experience Huck’s way of thinking throughout the whole book.

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It is rather unlikely that Huck makes this decision lightly: like Jim, he too wants to run away. Perhaps Huck feels closer to Jim because of this, and it rationalizes his reasons for helping him. Huck understands Jim’s plight, even relates to it, and he feels Jim’s pain. Similarly, one of the greatest testaments to Huck’s compassion was the river episode and Huck and Jim’s encounter with the sinking steamboat Walter Scott. The protagonists chance across a sinking steamboat, and happen aboard to take a look.

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“All right, then, I’ll go to hell… And for a starter I would go steal Jim out of slavery again”(215). Though Huck feels he’s doing something right, back then people would have saw this as a crime. Thus, demonstrating his relationship and bond that he creates with Jim throughout their adventures and journeys. Not to mention his attempt to save Jim, characterizes Huck as a hero.

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Huckleberry Finn is a story about a rambunctious young boy who adventures off down the Mississippi River. “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain demonstrates a situation where a Huck tries to find the balance between what is right and what is wrong. Huck faces many challenges in which his maturity will play a part in making the correct decision for himself and his friend Jim. Huck becomes more mature by the end of the novel by showing that he can make the correct decisions to lead Jim to the freedom he deserves. One major factor where Huck matures throughout the novel is through his experience.

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Huck thinks about Miss Watson and how he is betraying her by helping Jim escape. Huck encounters slave catchers and he is internally whether to tell about Jim but decides not to and says, “They went and I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low, because I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it warn’t no use for me to try to learn to do right; a body that don’t get started right when he’s little ain’t got no show -- when the pinch comes there ain’t nothing to back him up and keep him to his work, and so he gets beat” (Twain 102). Then later in the novel Jim is sold by some con men for $40 which upsets Huck and causes him to realize he cares about Jim and says, “All right, then I’ll GO to hell” (Twain 225). Huck is defying society’s laws by deciding to help captured Jim. Huck is maturing significantly because his perception of Jim has changed.

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Specifically, through the controversy of slavery at the time, Huck learns how to listen to his intuition and conscience. His slight hesitation escaping with Jim makes him question the authenticity of his morality. He says, “I begun to get it through my head that he was most free--and who was to blame for it? Why, me … But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could ‘a’ paddled ashore and told somebody”

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