The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Writing Assignment The author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, developed a protagonist, Huckleberry Finn, with past and present complexity as well as a unique innocence often correlated to his ignorance of societal doctrines. Huckleberry Finn, hereafter as Huck, was able to expose himself to different environments, including a range of towns and homes, as well as people with varying statuses in social hierarchy, ultimately shaping his new standards for morality and racial relations. Huck's prior relations with his father and exposure to new people among a multitude both blacks and whites allows him to progress effectively as an individual, as it forces him to deviate further from society and their oblivious perspectives due to his new definition of morality and personal integrity through inner disputes with his conscience. Prior to his journey along the river, Huck was living with Widow Douglas and Miss Watson who were given custody for Huck due to his father's negligence and poor influence. The two sisters and Pap represented Huck's lack of morality because they were his influences as a child, in respect to society's ignorance and lack of education for racial perspectives. Huck was eventually able to break away from society and begin his journey as it symbolized Huck's progression as a person while being educated on racial perspectives in reference to Jim, a runaway slave. Throughout Huck's journey on the river, he was exposed to an innumerable amount of towns and people of varying statuses, and he able to progress as an individual by gaining personal experience and refining his definition of morality. An instance where he was able to correlate an experience back to his prior life in the town was when he met the duke and king and exclaimed, "If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way (Twain 194)". Up until his journey with Jim, Huck was almost traumatized from his experiences with his father and greatly despised him. However, he was able to progress as an individual by using his experience with his father to his advantage by correlating the duke and king to his father and behaving accordingly. Furthermore, relating to his exposure with towns differing to his, he progressed behaviorally such as when he thought, “There was considerable jawing back, so I slid out, thinking maybe there was going to be trouble,” (Twain 222). Due to characters such as Tom Sawyer, whom Huck respected greatly, Huck developed a sense of constantly seeking adventure, however in this instance he left to avoid confliction rather than staying and seeking excitement. An important aspect of moral progression in this novel is the racial perspective of many of the characters due to many people having conflicting opinions during the nineteenth century in which this novel was set. Along the journey, Huck is able to deviate from his original beliefs of slaves from which he learned in his home environment, and is able construct his own opinion and perspective on slavery with the aid of Jim. Before Huck and Jim truly befriended each other and were able to understand the differing lives of each other, Huck viewed slaves as property and not as true human beings. Huck and Tom Sawyer frequently sought excitement and often enjoyed teasing slaves such as when Huck almost got caught by Jim while sneaking out of the house and thought, “When we was ten foot off, Tom whispered to me and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun; but I said no; he might wake and make a disturbance, and then they’d find out I warn’t in” (Twain 8). Although Huck refused to engage with Jim, he had done so not because of moral reasons but in order to escape efficiently. Despite Huck's ignorant view of slavery in the beginning of the novel, he progresses, dramatically, particularly when he is conflicted as to if he should turn in Jim and
or not. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is the tale of how a young boy in the rural South breaks free from his abusive father, and consequentially, everything else he has ever known. With just a runaway slave as a companion, Huckleberry’s story is bursting with Twain’s true thoughts and criticisms of society seen through his eyes. Through symbolic characters, Mark Twain criticizes the hypocrisy and corruption of human society, and uses Huckleberry Finn himself as a way to show that…
Michayla Perry July 13, 2013 AP Lang Major Works Paper: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a book that follows the adventures of a young boy named Huckleberry Finn, as he travels down the Mississippi river with his new found companion, Jim. The novel acts as some sort of prequel to Mark Twain’s previous book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The title of the novel is relatively self-explanatory, as it’s following the adventures that Huck (as he…
To Be Banned, or Not to Be The book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, has been banned in numerous schools and communities since it’s publication in 1885. There are many explanations for this but there is only one main reason: the use of derogatory terms. Others include “challenging authority, poking at religion, and leading children astray” (Schneider 1). This has been an issue for over 100 years and it is still going on. Parents do not want their children exposed to this type…
In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain writes about Huck Finn, a white teenager who faked his own death to run away from his town and later meets a runaway slave Jim, who escaped because he was going to be sold. The two of them start their journey by floating down the river while encountering many obstacles which add to Huck’s ironic humor towards Jim where he looks down upon him but still contributes to Jim’s escape from slavery…
It is obvious about the opinion stated by the Nword in the book “Huck Finn” by Mark Twain. When they were asked their opinion on the topic of banning the book, the NAACP replied with, “You don’t ban Mark Twainyou explain Mark Twain! To study an idea is not necessarily to endorse the idea. Mark Twain’s satirical novel, Huckleberry Finn , accurately portrays a time in historythe nineteenth centuryand one of its evils,slavery.” Huck Finn was written by Mark Twain in 1884. It has stirred controversy for many years because of a widely…
One’s journey in life is not always what it is expected to be. Life experiences can change one’s personality and character. The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, follows a young boy named Huckleberry Finn through his adventures down the Mississippi River. Through the adventures and obstacles he faces and overcomes with Jim, a loyal run-away slave, Huck changes and becomes more mature. He is no longer the careless, prank playing boy that runs around and have fun at other people's…
Huckleberry Finn, the focal point of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, matures greatly during the duration of the novel. Huck, as he prefers to go by, develops throughout his adventures. The difficult situations that he goes through help to strengthen his morals and create a strong personality. He is still a child so he will not become as mature as an adult but he truly advances towards becoming "sivilized." Mark Twain shows how the main character develops and grows in many scenes…
lack people on her Instagram. She also invited black people, including Magic Johnson, to attend Clipper basketball games. Both of these Sterling had addressed with Stiviano in the recording, clearly jealous. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, racism is a theme that is shown throughout the novel. An example similar to Sterling’s outburst is when Pap told Huck about a man he saw. “here was a free nigger there from Ohio… They said he was a p’fessor in a college, and could talk all kinds of languages…
based on race. Those sort of relationships are superficial relationships, that do not define the true meaning of friendship. Friendships have no limits, no boundaries, and no regrets. In The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain displays a close relationship between a runaway boy named Huck Finn and a runaway slave named Jim. Together the two experience an adventure of a lifetime. Throughout the book , Jim and Huck’s relationship grows exponentially and becomes one of the most marvelous friendships…
Compare the way in which rejection is presented in a passage from Huck and a passage from Catcher Both the book Catcher in the Rye and the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are structured around the theme of rejection. Even though both books are based around this theme, Catcher is based more widely around the idea of rejection. The text of Catcher in the Rye is set after the main character, Holden is kicked out of his current boarding school, Pencey Prep leaving the school grounds and rejecting…