Who Is Moses In Huckleberry Finn

Moses despite growing up as a prince, a life the exact opposite of Huckleberry Finn’s, also lived among a people who were violent and oppressive just as the southern whites. Moses one day notices the problems in his society and rashly acts upon his new found reality. Taking matters into his own hands “[Moses] spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew one of his brethren” (King James Version,Ex. 2:11), choosing to kill the Egyptian he angers Pharaoh who now wishes to see him dead. In his escape “Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian” (King James Version,Ex. 2:15). Huck too leaves for a different land where he can find safety, but his being the island he lands on after escaping down the Mississippi river. Huck’s betrayal

The Bible mentions two bodies of water when telling the story of Moses and Huck’s initial escape “parodies that of the baby Moses who is placed on the Nile River by his mother…”(McCullogh 19: 3). Although Moses was first saved from slaughter in the midst of the Nile River, his true savior came in the form of the Red Sea. During his time away from the land of Egypt, God came to Moses saying, “Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.” (King James Version,Ex. 8) Moses knew that Pharaohs and the Egyptians way of life enslavement of Hebrew people was immoral. Moses listened to the lord and returned to the land of Egypt to free the Hebrews. After much reluctance, Pharaoh released them to Moses who led them away from Egypt, but Pharaoh attempting to go back on his deal pursued them. Then under God’s instructions “Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and he Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.” (King James Version,Ex. 14:27) Had it not been for the help of God and the strength of the sea, Moses and the Hebrews would have been left to the hands of Pharaoh and his men.