Huckleberry Finn Change Analysis

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future” -John F. Kenedy. Change is a common theme in many books and that’s because it’s a common theme in everyone’s lives. People and the world around them are always changing, it’s an unavoidable part of life. Change comes in all different ‘shapes and sizes’, It can be physical or mental. We have observed change in many of the books we read this year. Some of those books include; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Things They Carried, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Change in those books are all very different from each other, but that doesn’t change the severity of the change. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, we see Huck, a young boy that grew up in a racist society, begin to forget the racism he was taught and start seeing the slaves as people too. Huck was always fairly innocent and he wasn’t intentionally racist, he was just raised to be, but as his adventures with Jim , a black run-away slave, continued he began to question what he was always told. He …show more content…
It may not seem like it, but in both books, the majority of the change is driven by one person. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the change was driven by Jim. He may not have been trying to change Huck, but the change still came from him teaching Huck that blacks were equal to whites. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest all of the4 change came from Randle McMurphy’s presence. As soon as he arrived to the ward the entire system the Nurse setup started falling apart. He was a wildcard that the Nurse couldn’t subdue. In the end this had to change his brain with a lobotomy to finally gain control back, but at that point he had already raised the rest of the men up against her. Each character in this book changed drastically, and it was all because McMurphy helped