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Essay On Huckleberry Finn
Rachel Kent Mrs.Horan Honors English 10 03 June 2017 Huckleberry Finn Essay The book, "The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is about the adventures that Huck and Jim go on.
Huck runs away with Jim and does all he can to get Jim out of Slavery at last. The book takes place
in the deep south, pre–Civil War, and shows how prevalent racism was. This historical fiction story
goes far enough to humanize Jim and really expose the fallacies of the racist assumptions of slavery
effectively attacking racism. Jim was considered a father figure to Huck tackling the belief that
African–Americans are inhumane. One of the main reasons Huck ran away in the first place was to
escape the horrors his dad put him through. His dad beat him, used
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Jim almost got hung when he was found, but didn't because of his character and the way he helped
Tom when he was struggling for life, after he got shot. Jim has good morals which was shown and
helped people realize he should be treated as a normal human being. An example of this is when the
doctor that treated Tom says, "I liked the nigger for that; I tell you, gentlemen, a nigger like that is
worth a thousand dollars–and kind treatment, too. I had everything I needed, and the boy was doing
as well there as he would a done at home–better, maybe, because it was so quiet; but there I WAS,
with both of 'm on my hands, and there I had to stick till about dawn this morning; then some men in
a skiff come by, and as good luck would have it the nigger was setting by the pallet with his
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Huckleberry Finn Thesis
A poor boy with an alcoholic for a father, a friend with an active imagination, and a foster parent
who is a saint and think everyone should be civilize. Do you know the story that this descriptive
come from??? As you might of guess from the title of the paper it is The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn it basically picks up where it left off from in The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer. When the story first start off we get introduce to this character name
Huckleberry Finn (Huck), Huck starts off by saying "You don't know about me without you have
read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was
made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but
mainly he
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Even though it did not say that he thought about in his head on whether it is a right thing to do or not
he had to think about it to come up with a decision. He thought about the negative and the positive
of letting Pap keep custody of Hunk like would he continuing beat on Hunk or would he change for
good now that he got help and is changing his life. This would relate to the theme of freedom,
because if you would compare this to a slave owner wanted to get his slave back it would be
somewhat like this. Comparing the plight of slaves to the plight of Huck at the hands of Pap, the
author implies that it is impossible for a society that owns slaves to be just, no matter how
"civilized" that society believes and proclaims itself to
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Huckleberry Finn Critique Essay
Classic Content Under Contemporary Critique Literature has been a very integral part of society for
thousands of years and have taught readers and listeners about history, current events, and a glimpse
of future occurrences. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, one of America's
greatest pieces of literature, has been heavily denigrated in the past few years. The education
system, specifically, has been keen to take this book off school libraries due to a myriad of reasons,
primarily due to the use of the n–word. I believe the novel should be taught in schools because can
greatly teach modern students about the distant past, responsibility, and about the common humanity
in all humans. One reason the book should be taught to students
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Also in the days of Huckleberry Finn terms like the n–word were actually extremely common even
by people without racist intentions. This term like many other words used in the story were part of
their actual language and saying such words were mundane and expected. In today's society the n–
word is very taboo and along with just speaking about race, however the audience must remember
the story takes place in a completely different time period when African Americans were seen as
property instead of people. Students are more likely to fully understand of the bigotry of past
through books that use derogatory and offensive terms like the n–word rather than by secondary
sources like textbooks and encyclopedias. Since words like these are rarely said or discussed in
today's time students may learn something they would haven't been taught in school otherwise. The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American classic due to the lessons it has taught readers for
several decades.. It should be taught in schools because it can also help teach students about the
distant past, responsibility, and about the common humanity in all humans. I believe schools that
remove this from their curriculum will be missing out on a great opportunity to instill these three
facets of star pupil in their
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The Narrator of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain chose Huck Finn to be the narrator to make the story
more realistic and so that Mark Twain could get the reader to examine their
own attitudes and beliefs by comparing themselves to Huck, a simple
uneducated character.
Twain was limited in expressing his thoughts by the fact that Huck
Finn is a living, breathing person who is telling the story. Since the
book is written in first person
, Twain had to put himself in the place of a
thirteen
–year–old son of the town drunkard. He had to see life as Huck did
and had to create a character that could see life as Mark Twain
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Huck is essentially good–hearted, but he is looked down upon by the
rest of the village. He dislikes civilized ways because they are too
restrictive and hard. He is generally ignorant of reading and writing, but
he has a sharply developed sensibility. He is imaginative and clever, and
has a good eye for detail, though he does not always understand everything
he sees, or its significance. This enables Twain to make great use of
irony. Huck is basically a realist. He knows only what he sees and
experiences. He does not have a great deal of faith in things he reads or
hears. He must experiment to find out what is true and what is not. With
this kind of personality, Huck is able to believe Jim's superstition at
some times and to distrust others.
He also see Huck as he is, the opposite of Tom Sawyer. He is as
stated before, a realist, and generally a regular person except when he
goes off on Tom's adventures or when he follows Tom's lead. He is not
"sivilizable." The end of the book makes this clear. He is where he was
in the beginning: he left the Widow's house, and he will leave Aunt Sally's.
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Morality in Huckleberry Finn Essay
Morality has always been defined as having either a good or evil conscious. There is always a
choice that a character makes that defines their moral integrity in a literary work and distinguishes
them as the hero. In Mark Twain's story, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", not only does Huck
encounters a number of moral circumstances where he or other characters displays situations in
which moral ethics is called to questioned, but it proves that despite the religious influence and
social expectation, it is through Huck that in order to do what is morally right, one must challenge
the moral teaching of the world. Through observation of his world, Huck makes morally ambiguous
choices that though may be against his moral teachings. Choice
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Well I couldn't see no advantage in going where she was going so I made up my mind that I
wouldn't try for it" (Twain 132). It is clear that in order to 'civilize' Huck, it begins by teaching him
the idea of heaven and hell. All moral choices often stem out to the idea of, in religious terms,
whether or not your actions will lead to total spiritual fulfillment and the idea that all unmoral
actions leads to a condemned soul.
This notion could also be contrasted to the idea of the angel and devil on one's shoulder that is
commonly associated with the conscious. This is exemplified when Jim explains why Huck's father
is associated with the negative connotations with being the town drunk. He states "Dey's two angels
hoverin' roun' 'bout him. One uv'em is white en shiny, eb 'tother one is black. De white one gits him
to go right, a little while, den de black one sail in en bust it all up" (Twain 141). This is the general
idea associated with morality
. It connects to the expectations of the community where right and
wrong heavily influences how the people act in a certain manner. This can also be exemplified when
the murders on the ship decide against killing Jim Turner and state that it "ain't good sense, it ain't
good morals" (172). The way these characters live reflects the way that, not only how the
community views the individual but also distinguish the idea of the righteous and pious against the
moral unjust.
It is clear that
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Huckleberry Finn Realism Essay
The novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is a highly realistic novel, yes, it is all about
realism. The work shows stereotypes, satire, non–romanticized characters, racism and slavery.
Stereotypes are applied to almost every characters in the novel, not only Jim, Huck, but also the
duke, the king, and other white people
. Back then when Minstrel shows were a big influence on
society, white people considered them an entertainment, but what they actually did, was to wash out
every sense of human being in a black person. Black people were depicted with poor grammar, as
lazy and loudmouthed, uneducated people. However, Jim is a very humane picture. The fact that,
Jim acts as a father figure more than Pap does. While Pap abuses Huck,
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Along the way, they meet the duke and the king, two white people. What Twain is doing here, is to
contrast these two cons with Jim, a kind and honest man. The duke and king, over and over again,
make up stories, fake their identity to cheat on people and take their money. When they try to be the
two brothers of a rich man to take all the iherited money: "Well, when it come to that it worked the
crowd like you never see anything like it, and everybody broke down and went to sobbing right out
loud –– the poor girls, too; and every woman, nearly, went up to the girls, without saying a word,
and kissed them, solemn, on the forehead, and then put their hand on their head, and looked up
towards the sky, with the tears running down, and then busted out and went off sobbing and
swabbing, and give the next woman a show. I never see anything so disgusting." (Twain 178). Why
was it so disgusting to Huck? The true nature of these two white men, the duke and the king, proves
that the stereotypes of racism was completely wrong. There are white people who do not have
morality like Jim does. The contrast was too large, to be compared, Jim shall be loved and valued
more than the two frauds. While the Victorian women complaint about Huck's behaviors,
considering him
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Huckleberry Finn Journey Essay
Huckleberry Finn's crisis of conscience on the raft is a major turning point for Hucks personal
journey in the story. The crisis scene and the Phelps farm reinforces the meaning of his journey by
adding a conclusion to it. While a reason for Huck and Jim's journey was to get to freedom, Hucks
personal journey was to find a home. Yet every time it seems that Huck has found a home, society's
ridiculous flaws keep him from staying too long. For instance at the Grangerfords home, Huck was
happy there but he had to leave because there was a shootout. Hucks exposure to the flaws leads him
to believe that not everything about society is right. The build up of these flaws lead us to the crisis
of conscience moment where he has to choose between saving Jim and condemning his eternal soul
to hell or writing a letter to Mrs. Watson explaining what happened. Although the crisis scene
outcome was greatly influenced by Hucks love of Jim, this scene is important because it gives him
the
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At the the end of the story, there are two details that Mark Twain decides to add in. Jim tells Huck
that his father is dead and Tom tells him that Miss Watson passed away two months ago. With both
family figures gone and Jim leaving, Huck leaves for indian territory. We can see his reaction to the
deaths when the last paragraph for Jim is the one that tells Huck that his dad is dead. The last line of
the book says "She's going to adopt me and sivilize me" giving the last word of what he thinks of
society, how there are major flaws in it and why he is leaving it all behind. Huck spent a good chunk
of the story trying to free Jim. Now that was over Huck could finally focus all his attention to his
personal journey to find a home. Faced with the option to do what he wanted, he decides to finish
his journey somewhere where society and its flaws has no influence: indian
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Compare And Contrast Essay On Huckleberry Finn
All children grow up, and as they grow up, they encounter different experiences that shape them into
adults. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a coming of age story that showcases the moral growth
of a child as he becomes an adult. Twain uses the adventures of Huck, a young boy from the lowest
social class of society, and his changing relationship with Jim, a runaway slave, to showcase a key
feature of adolescence: learning through taking risks. Huck learns key life lessons in his time spent
on land with the Widow Douglas, pap, the Grangerfords, and the Wilks that lead to his decision to
"go to hell" (?).
Huck learns the importance of freedom from the Widow Douglas and pap. By the time we finish
reading the first page of the novel
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Buck, a boy who is the same age as Huck and is quite similar to Huck, teaches Huck both what a
feud is and how destructive it can be. Both Huck and Buck seek action and adventure. Buck displays
this clearly when Huck comes to the Grangerfords house and the men of the house search Huck to
make sure he is not part of the enemy family
, but Buck is only woken up when the interrogation of
Huck was complete, and he complains "Well, nobody come after me, and it ain't right. I'm always
kept down; I don't get no show" (97). Both Huck and Buck are looking to get in on the excitement.
Because they are so similar, Huck and Buck quickly become good friends. The lesson that Huck
learns from the Grangerfords is particularly forceful for Huck because the fight between the
Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons results in Buck's death. Huck sees first hand the death of Buck
along with many other members of both families. This emotionally impacts Huck, and he explains
that when he saw Buck die, "it made me so sick I most fell out of the tree" (114). Sophia
Grangerford, who falls in love with Henry Sheperdson, teaches Huck another way of dealing with
feuds. She shows him that an individual can overcome feuds and bridge gaps between families. This
new subtle lesson comes up when Huck questions if he should go to hell near the end of the
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Huckleberry Finn Essay
River of Life and Realism in Huck Finn
In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses the river to symbolize life and
the adventures of Huck to show the realism in the novel. These two elements are shown throughout
the book in many different ways. Sometimes one would have to really sit down and think about all
the symbolism in this classic novel.
T. S. Eliot stated, “We come to understand the River by seeing it through the eyes of the
Boy; but the Boy is also the spirit of the River'; (333). Throughout Huck’s adventure,
as he and Jim are traveling down the river on a raft to Cairo
, we see the admiration Huck has for the
river. He sets it
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The story of Huck Finn and his friend Jim would not have taken place were it not for the great and
mighty Mississippi. The flowing and changing of the river symbolizes the progression of Huck and
Jim’s adventure. It also symbolizes
Huck’s growth and his realization of his mistakes and how he can turn them into better
situations. In the end, both of the runaways’ dreams come true. Jim gained freedom for
himself and his family and Huck gained knowledge, and freedom from his Pap forever. In Mark
Twain’s, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the living river protected Huck and Jim
and transported them to their dreams(Budd 102–12).
There is a great deal of realism in the novel which is shown in many different ways. As Dean
Howells once said, “Let fiction cease to lie about life.';(quoted in Budd 36). The
realism of pride and revenge is shown in the Grangerford episode. The Grangerfords were a family
caught up in a feud with the Sherpherdson family. No one really knows why they are feuding but
each of them know that if they see one of the enemies that they are supposed to shoot and that shows
the pride of family. This episode also shows the reality of revenge. After Buck’s dad
and brothers are shot Buck and his brothers will
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Huck Finn Character Analysis
Huck had grown a great deal since the beginning of the story. He started off as an imaginative boy
who loved to pretend he was a part of a group of robbers. He was the typical boy who disliked being
neat, using manners, attending school, and the adults in his life. All he wanted was to have freedom
and left alone with his imagination to partake in the adventures that life had thrown at him. It wasn't
until Huck ran away for him to be granted the independence he had been looking for. Throughout
his expedition, Huck was able to learn many lessons, become exposed to all kinds of perils, develop
new connections with many people, and grow as an individual. Throughout the story, Huck Finn met
many different people such as two conmen that called
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Examples Of Individualism In Huckleberry Finn
Individualism
From the 1830s to the 1880s it was a very conformist society and was tricky to get away from.
Whether it was religion or ethnicity one would usually go to a group they weren't the one standing
alone. During this time everything was very racially distinguish as well. In, The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
, is proven that individuality is not impossible in a conformist society. When Huck
escapes home for freedom, and persistently tried to help Jim escape shows how they both are trying
to be individuals, though it was difficult during this time it was not impossible. When growing up in
conformist society, it can be hard on children. For Huck Finn he was stuck with his abusive father so
he decided to run away to freedom and stage his own death. At Huck's age children started gaining
their own opinions and figuring out what's right and wrong. Most families were dedicated to
different religious groups and then was forced upon the kids. Some kids did not like to go against
the grain so they would go with whatever "everyone else is doing" however, that couple percent will
go off track and do something different. When
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Huck's goal was to get away from his father knowing eventually Pap was going to kill Huck. Instead
of acting sane, when huck escaped, rather than going back to his other home he ran away. This is
standing out because no other young boy would think "run away from home". Knowing people
would come and look for Huck, he stages his own death. This is a smart but very rare thought for a
young boy to come across. As Huck was hunting birds, he found a wild hog, shot it, brought it back
to camp, "...and laid him on the ground to bleed" (25). Using this hog to stage his death, Huck let it
bleed out on the floor leaving an abundance of blood. Huck continued to add to the "scene" to make
it look realistic. This all shows the individuality in Huck through this
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Since its first publication in 1884, Mark Twain's masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
has proven to be one of history's most controversial novels; especially recently, the novel has often
been banned by schools and censored by libraries. Characters in the book are constantly using
disparaging language toward slaves, and the repeated use of the word "nigger" makes many
sensitive and offended. Critics denounce the novel and Mark Twain as racist for this word being
insulting and politically incorrect and for its depiction of black people and how they are treated.
However, Twain was not attempting to perpetuate racism; on the contrary, he used satire to expose
the ignorance and paradoxical views held by many in America at that time.
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Huck learns humanity from Jim; without Jim, Huck would be restricted to stealing and lying. Author
Charles Nichols maintains that "the heart of Huckleberry Finn is, of course, the developing moral
sense of the boy Huck. This growth depends upon his recognition of the humanity of the slave Jim"
(212). Twain clearly shows that Jim is extremely moralistic, whose primary function is to further the
characterization of Huck by his presence, personality, actions, and words. Additionally, critics object
to the novel because it is unfit for children and its language is unsuitable or offensive. Pulitzer
Prize–winning American novelist Jane Smiley contends that "to invest The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn with 'greatness' is to underwrite a very simplistic and evasive theory of what
racism is and to promulgate it" and that placing in context Huck's use of the word "nigger" is
inexcusable (64). In the nineteenth century, blacks were consistently referred to as "niggers"; if
Twain had denied that, the novel's story would have seemed historically inaccurate and essentially
meaningless, instead of demonstrating how evil slavery and racism are. If the novel was rewritten to
appease the affronted masses, slavery and racism would not even come into play, making Jim's
escape unnecessary, and ultimately reducing the novel from a great piece of American literature to a
comical story. Barbara Jackson, professor of education at Fordham University, states, "the word was
so commonly used that
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Huck Finn Argumentative Essay
Quotation/Pg. Analysis "I poked along well on to an hour, everything still as rocks and sound
asleep." Pg. 39 Huck has escaped the chaotic life he was living with his father and made it to a place
that was much more calm and "still." "Jim said bees wouldn't sting idiots; but i didn't believe that,
because i had tried them lots of times myself, and they wouldn't sting me." Pg.44 Although Jim says
that bees won't sting idiots, Huck doesn't believe him, because he believes himself not to be an idiot,
and the bees would not sting him. It is ironic that Huck believes himself not to be an idiot, yet he
was trying to get bees to sting him so that he could prove that he was not an idiot. "dark as sin again
in a second, and now
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99 Huck is wondering about right and wrong. He feels that doing wrong is easier than doing wrong,
so he shouldn't try to do right. He wonders why people always try to do right. "To be, or not to be;
that is the bare bodkin,That makes calamity of so long life." Pg. 129 This is an allusion to
Shakespeare's "Hamlet." This is the opening line to the play. He will recite it at the "Shakespearean
Revival." "I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n." Pg. 148
Huck realizes here that people of different skin color are very similar to white people. All races care
for their own families and their own people. This is a revelation for Huck, for he does not think this
until this time. "It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cruel to one another." Pg.
220 This is another revelation for Huck. He realizes the cruelty of humans toward each other,
especially humans of different races. There is hatred between them, and this leads to cruelty from
one to the
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In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," humanity is portrayed as cruel and insensitive. Mark
Twain's purpose is to paint a picture of the hypocrisy of society and human nature during this time
period. He does this in many ways, specifically by, giving a drunken father custody over his child,
skewing Huck's view of morals, and twisting ideas of justice. The context of the story is that a
young boy fakes his own death to escape his abusive father and travels down a river with an escaped
slave. The book begins with 'Pap' fighting to take custody over Huck, not because he truly cares
about the boy but to gain control over the money he possesses. The twisted role of society comes
into play when the judge is willing to give Huck over to his father, an abusive drunk. Fortunately,
the judge realizes the intent and allows Huck to remain with under the care of the widow. Twain sets
the stage of the novel with this interaction to portray how messed up society is that it would put a
young boy with an abusive drunk. To go even further, he displays the hypocrisy of society by
depicting the other main character, Jim, a black man who runs away in desperate attempt to keep his
family together, as nothing more than an escaped slave, a piece of property. Twain uses this contrast
to show the heavy racism at this time specifically highlighting the errors of society hinging on white
men's decisions. It makes the reader itch knowing that the same people would put a young boy in the
care of a
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Huckleberry Finn Character Analysis Essay
Many families have a father who is drunk all of the time while also doing nothing productive for the
family, and a kid who means well but makes the wrong decision many time. In the story this story
Twain portrays Huck as a character who is innocent but makes the wrong decision sometimes, while
his father Pap is an awful drunk who doesn't care for him at all. Mark Twain uses realistic traits to
explain the life of the very complex characters in the book Huckleberry Finn, making the story
relatable to even the newest generation of readers. The first character will be Huck, a kid who is just
trying to learn and be a normal kid. He makes some mistakes along the way but in general is a good
person. He makes a huge mistake messing with Jim in chapter 15: "It made me feel so mean I could
almost kissed his food to get him to take it back. It was fifteen
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Pap has gotten himself into a lot of trouble trying to get the alcohol that he craves. Later Pap gets so
drunk that he begins to hallucinate: "By and by he rolled out and jumped up on his feet looking
wild, and he see me and went for me. He chased me round and round the place with a clasp–knife,
calling me the Angel of Death, and saying he would kill me, and then I couldn't come for him no
more." (4.16) He almost kills Huck because he got so drunk that he believed Huck was trying to kill
him. Pap is almost a polar opposite of Huck being horrible, not caring, and doing anything he can to
get alcohol to get drunk so he doesn't have to deal with
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Huck Finn Racism Essay
Huck Finn Racism The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a Mark Twain classic, wonderfully
demonstrates pre–Civil War attitudes about blacks held by whites. Twain demonstrates these
attitudes through the actions and the speech of Huckleberry Finn, the narrator, and Jim, Miss
Watson's slave. These two main characters share a relationship that progresses from an acquaintance
to a friendship throughout the novel. It is through this relationship that Mark Twain gives his readers
the realization of just how different people's attitudes were before the Civil War. Twain also reveals
the negative attitudes of whites toward blacks by the cruel manner in which Jim is treated with such
inferiority. The beginning of Huck and Jim's
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Although Huck is a bit racist to Jim at the beginning of their journey, the negative attitude held by
Huck begins to fizzle as their adventure continues on. The more Huck and Jim go through together,
the closer the two become. Huck begins to see Jim as a friend and vice versa. By the end of their
journey, Huck disagrees with society's idea that blacks are inferior. One example of this is evident
when Huck doesn't tell anyone of Jim's whereabouts. Huck doesn't tell anyone because he knows
that if he does, Jim will be forced to return to slavery. Instead, Huck chooses to "go to Hell" for his
decision. He has shied away from society's acceptance of slavery. One of the ways Twain exposes
the folly of the negative attitudes toward blacks is through describing the whites' cruel and pointless
acts of hatred directed toward Jim. The least severe of the cruel acts toward Jim is that whites often
ridicule him. Another dehumanizing act is when Jim is made to hide his face in the daytime. The
most foolish and ignorant idea of the whites, however, is when Silas Phelps locked up Jim. Another
demonstration of the whites' folly is when Pap, Huck's father, violently objects to the granting of
suffrage to a black man. Pap does not take into consideration that this man is an educated professor;
he believes that he is superior to this black man simply because of the color of his skin. In actuality,
however, Pap is an uneducated drunk. This adds to the irony of the white's actions.
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What Is The Purpose Of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a novel written by the witty and satirical writer, Mark twain,
and sets out in fictional St. Petersburg, Missouri, along the shore of the Mississippi River. The story
is narrated and told in first person by the main character and protagonist, Huck Finn, who is an
adventurous, mischievous, and clever, 14–year–old boy; who struggles with his identity and moral
dilemmas. Because of his dire past with an abusive and extreme alcoholic father, named Pap, Huck
was taken in by a widow in town named, Widow Douglas, an avid Christian, who wants to "sivilize"
Huck.
Huck's main goal in the book is to achieve freedom (from society) and adventure on his own; which
he does with Jim, a highly superstitious, runaway slave, who was owned by Widow Douglas' sister,
Miss Watson. The two end up meeting on island in the middle of the river and runaway together;
making the two characters alike, despite their skin color and age. Both Jim and Huck are seeking to
find freedom. Jim is seeking to find freedom from slavery, while Huck is seeking freedom from
society and the norm.
What really makes this book stand out is how realistic it is, and how it exposes the way us humans
treat each other. Twain's purpose of Huck Finn was to inform his audience the flaws and problems
he saw in society back then, which we can still see some of it todays time.
One of the biggest issues in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
, was slavery. Back then in the 19th
century, which was
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Ethan Greavu
Mrs. Vogt
English 3 Advanced Placement, Period 5
Literary Analysis Essay
6, January 2015
Society and IndividualityB "This shook me up considerable, because I didn't want to go back to the
widow's any more and be so cramped up and sivilized, as they call it" (Twain 35). Individuality is
typically hard to find given that society adjusts for the common people to be a part of. A
representation of this can be found in the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark
Twain
. Twain portrays this with a young boy named Huckleberry Finn who breaks free from society.
Huckleberry Finn, also referred to as Huck, did not understand the society of his time and to fight
against this, attempts to become an individual. The development of Huck's
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From the beginning, Huck felt guilty for keeping Miss Watson wondering where her slave had
escaped to with Huck, but felt returning Jim would lead to regret. As Huck traveled down the
Mississippi with Jim, he had an opportunity to return the slave to the rightful owner but Huck
believed his moral values were more important than ordinary society expectations. "So I was full of
trouble, full as I could be; and didn't know what to do" (227). Huck wrote a letter to the owner of
Jim, Miss Watson, informing her of where Jim was before ripping up the letter opposing his own
ideas. "I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life" (227). In
Huck's lifetime, the public would shame Huck for helping an escaped slave and consider Jim as a
father
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Huckleberry Finn Research Paper
The Perfect Fit Not able to and not wanting to fit the social norms of civilization, thirteen year–old
Huckleberry Finn embarks on a journey with Jim, a runaway slave, to escape the ways of society
and find a new standard of freedom. In this the novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck finds
it hard to conform with the ways of "present day" society. Huck believes that the rules of society
should not abide because they are the opposite of freedom. Being civilized, Huck feels as though his
restraints on freedom are being held tightly in the Widow's clutch. Although the widow is only
trying to help Huck, she seems to become more of a hypocrite each time. " Pretty soon I wanted to
smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn't. She
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"He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to
take to the woods most of the time when he was around " (Twain 3). Huck's father is so abusive that
he cannot stay, and so he fakes his own death. Faking his death and fleeing to Jackson Island is the
only thing Huck can do enable to save his own life from the dangers of Pap, and his way to escape
from society. Huck finds that he is not the only inhabitant on Jackson Island, and he finds that the
other inhabitant is Jim, Mrs. Watson's slave. Jim tells Huck that he overheard Miss Watson
discussing selling him for $800 to a slave trader who would take him to New Orleans, which would
separate him from his family. Both Huck and Jim come to conclusion that the river is the only route
they can take if they want to be free. "So in two seconds away we went a–sliding down the river,
and it did seem so good to be free again and all by ourselves on the big river, and nobody to bother
us. (Twain 29). The river represents freedom and it goes with the calm, steady flow,which Huck
wishes to be. Huck uses the river as an escape to escape the norms of reality and society. Huck
represents a boat that is floating down the river, but he is still being pointed to the direction others
want him to go. Life on the shore is harder because a boat ,Huck, obviously doesn't belong on land.
Huck is being forced to fit the standards of Pap,
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, together with the numerous significant American poets, considered
realism to be a faithful representation of what they viewed as a truthful portrayal of the reality in the
era in which they lived in. With directly approaching the truth, they created the literary movement
which was a genuine reflection of reality. The middle of the nineteenth century was the ideal period
for the establishment of the realism. As opposed to Romanticism which stresses the importance of
one's individual feelings, Realism is attached to the problems that arise in a society, as well as their
true colors. Realism offers different interpretation of the term individual, because realism
emphasizes the importance of society and the person as part within that society. Realism brings a
new way of practicing life, for involving the
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Twain is considered as a contributor to the conversion of American writing. This portrait includes a
presentation of native American material, the use of the vernacular diction or speech which liberates
the poetic style from the chains of the genteel or in other words to break away from the poetic
traditions. Mark Twain
's intention was to indicate the major dominant problems happening in his
society, by incorporating the innocent character, Huckleberry Finn. In "The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
", Twain implements realistic components such as irony, humor, carefully choosing
a proper dialect (colloquial English) for all of his characters and the difference between the innocent
and the evil. The author succeeds in his attempt to get his message across, and the main protagonist
Huck's moral dilemma imposes the reader to question the problems that dominate in their society.
The technique that Mark Twain uses, i.e. criticizing the society in satiric manner, adds up the humor
to the dramatic problems and social
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