Places In Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published on December 10th, in 1884 by a man named Mark Twain. This fictional novel revolves around the Southern like lifestyle of a young teenaged boy named Huckleberry Finn. The stories plot resides throughout many different places along The Mississippi River in the mid 1800’s. The novel displays the events that happen to Huckleberry Finn, along with his peers, and the consequences of hard decisions Huck has to make all through the novel. The author; Mark Twain, grew up around many of the places characterized in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well as being set in the same time period of when Mark Twain had grown up himself.

Protagonist(s): Huckleberry Finn- main character and narrator

Huck, runs away from his Mississippi home, and his caretaker; the widow, to find a better life for himself. The majority of the novel takes place along the Mississippi river, and different towns/areas of this waterway, and it is very interesting to see both the geographical and societal attributes of these areas. At the beginning of the novel, Huck gets captured by his abusive father named Pap, but is able to escape later on. Along the beggining of his journey down the river, Huck runs into the widow’s slave named Jim, and they both unite and decide to travel the waterway together. These characters also run into a duke and a king, and both of them decide to rule and take over the protagonists raft to make it their own. Both of these main characters acquired many good morals throughout their adventures on the river, whether it’s impersonating a rich family to get a lot of inheritance money from their dead “brother”, or running into a Romeo and Juliet like style family with a feud. Huck learns so much through the decisions and actions he takes in these adventures, that help evolve his character throughout the book. By the end of the novel, Huck is in a predicament to try to help Jim escape from his imprisonment by another owner, and his friend Tom Sawyer joins him to help Jim escape. They do exactly so, only to find out that Jim had been a free man all along, and that he had

One of those key literary devices I have noticed in the novel is a quote that was said by Jim. “ But you is alright. You gwyne to have considerable trouble in yo’ life, en considerable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you’s gwyne to git well agin.” (Jim, Chapter 4). This quote was said when Jim was telling Huck's fortune and future. Jim connected to a crystal ball like hairball, that he said had talked to him while Huck was standing right in front of him, and made a comment as to what Huck will endure in his future. This passage is a raw form of foreshadowing, that Mark Twain incorporated into the book early on in the novel. In the chapters that followed this quote, Huck has been through so many challenges and has gotten into so many tough scenarios, but every single time he has, he has escaped them. One example of this is when Huck’s curiosity took control over him, and he decided to explore a wrecked ship in the middle of a thunderstorm to see if it had any resources. Once Huck got onto the ship, he saw men that were holding people hostage and wanted to kill them, but Huck got trapped inside the ship while Jim was still on the raft. The men never noticed Huck, but he listened in to what was happening, and he waited till the coast was clear to leave. Huck made it out without even being noticed, and he got through a tough