huckleberry

huckleberry

  • Submitted By: Jing-W
  • Date Submitted: 04/03/2016 6:15 PM
  • Category: English
  • Words: 678
  • Page: 3


The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a powerful book in which a young boy, Huck breaks free from the social convention that surrounds him and risks his soul to free a slave. The pursuit of freedom, the creation of a strong friendship, and Huck’s empathetic attitude help to defeat his deformed conscience to tear up the letter that he intended to give back to Miss Watson.
Before Huck’s unexpected voyage with Jim, the Widow Douglass tries to civilize Huck by adopting him as her own son, but Huck didn’t want to be adopted by anyone. While Widow Douglass sets all the expectation for Huck and manage to civilize him, Huck finds “how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways” (1). Finally, Huck couldn’t stay any longer and had to run away from the house. It shows that Huck wants to have freedom and the liberty to do what he wants to do rather than being controlled by Widow Douglass or the society itself. He therefore breaks away from the society and living his own life. Similar to Huck, Jim also wants to escape from his owner, Miss Watson, who wanted to sell Jim to the South away from his family. Jim decides to obtain his own freedom and finds Huck on the same destination so as their journey begins.
During the journey, at first, Huck didn’t understand all why Jim was doing with him travelling along the river, but as time goes by; he felt a strong connection with Jim since both of them wanted freedom. There are uncountable times where Huck felt bad that he tricked Jim, or trying to turn in Jim as a slave. “Then he got up slow and walked to the wigwam, and went in there without saying anything but that. But that was enough. It made me feel so mean I could almost kissed HIS foot to get him to take it back” (84). It shows that Huck feels guilty of his action that he misleads Jim, and feels very regretful of his act toward Jim. Along the journey; Huck and Jim develop are great friendship that they help each other throughout many events that...

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