What aspects of Huck Finn’s personality and events in his life prompt T.S. Elliot’s analysis of him? Huck Finn has a much more solitary personality compared to everyone else in the story. Elliot believes that even though Huck Finn has friends, it is just that he is different than all of them. Huck does not really have a family, especially a good father figure, which has caused him to mature much faster than his friends. Eliot believes this is a leading cause to why he is different. For example the novel says, “They talked it over, and they was going to rule me out, because they said every boy must have a family or somebody …show more content…
In Eliot’s poem Little Gidding he compares the entire poem to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the dark things within the novel, such as death. He believes death shapes Huck Finn. Which I agree because if Huck does not fake his own death there is no story. Huck fakes his death to …show more content…
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are polar opposites. Tom is a boy, who acts like a boy, and has a family. As one would know Huck is a boy, who acts like a man, and has no family or barely any. Which replicates that Huck Finn does not have many people who truly care about him. Tom is in retrospect more “civilized” than Huck Finn because of his upbringing, yet because of Huck Finn’s upbringing he is a lot more mature than Tom. Tom and Huck Finn have been through a good amount of their lives together, which brings them together pretty closely. This is why readers believe that Huck and Tom are more like brothers than friends, despite their upbringing. They both have very different things going on in their life. a When Huck Finn is on the journey with Jim, readers see slowly how Jim is starting to become one of the few people who actually cares about Huck, and how Huck is even starting to care about Jim despite the color barrier. Jim and Huck Finn are both “uncivilized” people on the run. They are also polar opposites with Jim being an old, black slave. The time this novel takes place is around the civil war era, which replicates the way whites thought of blacks. As people progress through this novel a reader cannot see exactly how Huck Finn feels about Jim, but one can see he knows how he should feel about him. This does not really occur about how Huck should feel like