Adventures Of Huck Finn
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Adventures Of Huck Finn
Setting: Late 1800’s along the Mississippi River Plot: When the book begins,
the main character, Huck Finn possesses a large sum of money. This causes his
delinquent lifestyle to change drastically. Huck gets an education, and a home
to live in with a caring elderly woman (the widow). One would think that Huck
would be satisfied. Well, he wasn’t. He wanted his own lifestyle back.
Huck’s drunkard father (pap), who had previously left him, was also not
pleased with Huck’s lifestyle. He didn’t feel that his son should have it
better than he. Pap tries to get a hold of the money for his own uses, but he
fails. He proceeds to lock Huck up in his cabin on the outskirts of town. Huck
then stages his kidnapping and subsequent killing, and takes a canoe across to
Jackson’s Island in the Mississippi River. There he comes across a runaway
slave, Jim, and the two decide to leave the area. Huck leaves to avoid his
father, and Jim leaves to escape a false charge of murder. The rest of the story
follows all of their exciting and action packed adventures down the Mississippi
River. Themes Slavery is a big theme in this story. Mark Twain was obviously
against slavery because it is hypocritical. Throughout the book we see Huck
interacting with Jim as human to human, while everyone else treats him like a
piece of property. He was especially against the Christians who promoted
slavery, since it is obviously wrong and against Christian ideals. Twain also
shows the hypocrisy in another theme, religion. In one scene, the Shepardsons
and the Gangerfords are listening to a sermon about brotherly love, and in the
next scene they are shooting and killing each other. This is exactly the kind of
behavior that twain didn’t like. However, the main theme in this book is
breaking free. He urges his readers to do the right thing, not necessarily what
everyone else is doing. He illustrates this ideal with Huck. Most everyone else
thought of Jim, along with blacks in general, as something less than human. Huck
knew this was wrong, and his actions followed this when he rescued Jim. Main
characters Huckleberry Finn Huck is the narrator of the story and for the most
part is honest to us, the readers. He dreads the rules and conformities of
society such as religion, school, and everything else that will eventually make
him civilized. A big debate surrounds Huck on whether he changes or not
throughout the story. Huck, in the beginning, seems very set...
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