In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the main character Huck learns to make his own decisions and realizes that the character Jim, who is a slave, is just like everyone else. There are many different genres and themes played out as the novel goes on. Four of the main genres and themes are, racism/slavery, satire, bildungsroman, and the theme of family and growing up. Throughout the entire novel racism and slavery is shown in many different ways Jim, one of the main characters in the novel, is an African American slave during the 1800’s. He is owned by Miss Watson, who is Widow Douglas’s sister. Widow Douglas is Huck Finn’s guardian, she takes care of Him because his Pap is the town drunk and is very violent towards Huck. “Miss
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The Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords are two families with a feud that has been going on for 30 years. It started out when one man from each family went to court. When one man won he was so enraged that he killed the other man. On Huck and Jim’s journey to get Jim to freedom, they meet two men that call themselves the duke and the king. During the 1800’s there was no more dukes and kings, they just wanted to get Huck and Jim to do wait on them, do things for them. Huck quickly figured out that they were con-artist, but he decides not to play along with it. What the duke and the king were doing was mocking the upper class, which is an example of satire. "The people most killed themselves laughing; and when the king got done capering and capered off behind the scenes, they roared and clapped and stormed and till he come back and done it over again, and after that they made him do it another time” (Twain 114). At the end of the novel Jim finally finds freedom, but not the way they planned. Miss Watson, Jim’s owner, felt guilty for wanting to sell Jim, because he was been working for her for such a long time. When she dies and her will is read, they find that she has Jim freed. Something good still came out of Huck and Jim’s Journey though, they became closer as people and …show more content…
You see a lot of this theme in the main character Huck. He has lived with the Widow Douglas for most of his life. You can see through certain scenes in the novel that he starts to see her as a motherly figure. Jim and Huck talk a lot on their journey, so they get to know each other very well. Jim tells Huck a story about before his family was separated. One day he was walking through his old house and sees his father sitting in front of the door and politely asks her to move so he could get through. He asks her once and she doesn’t move, she doesn’t even look up at him, so he asks her again a little louder, but she still does not move. When he asks her a third time he gets frustrated and strikes her across the face. She stands up quickly, behind her the wind blows the door shut. It made a loud noise so any person would turn around to see what it was. Jim’s daughter Elizabeth just stands there, doesn’t even look back. He then realizes that she is deaf. Jim immediately feels horrible and holds her in his arm and just cries and apologizes. When Jim tells that story Huck realizes that a slave family is just like any other white family. That shows that he is maturing and making his own decisions about what to believe. By the end of the novel Huck changes his mind about the way he feels about Jim and slaves in general. He realizes that they are like everyone else. “It was
The Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords are two families with a feud that has been going on for 30 years. It started out when one man from each family went to court. When one man won he was so enraged that he killed the other man. On Huck and Jim’s journey to get Jim to freedom, they meet two men that call themselves the duke and the king. During the 1800’s there was no more dukes and kings, they just wanted to get Huck and Jim to do wait on them, do things for them. Huck quickly figured out that they were con-artist, but he decides not to play along with it. What the duke and the king were doing was mocking the upper class, which is an example of satire. "The people most killed themselves laughing; and when the king got done capering and capered off behind the scenes, they roared and clapped and stormed and till he come back and done it over again, and after that they made him do it another time” (Twain 114). At the end of the novel Jim finally finds freedom, but not the way they planned. Miss Watson, Jim’s owner, felt guilty for wanting to sell Jim, because he was been working for her for such a long time. When she dies and her will is read, they find that she has Jim freed. Something good still came out of Huck and Jim’s Journey though, they became closer as people and …show more content…
You see a lot of this theme in the main character Huck. He has lived with the Widow Douglas for most of his life. You can see through certain scenes in the novel that he starts to see her as a motherly figure. Jim and Huck talk a lot on their journey, so they get to know each other very well. Jim tells Huck a story about before his family was separated. One day he was walking through his old house and sees his father sitting in front of the door and politely asks her to move so he could get through. He asks her once and she doesn’t move, she doesn’t even look up at him, so he asks her again a little louder, but she still does not move. When he asks her a third time he gets frustrated and strikes her across the face. She stands up quickly, behind her the wind blows the door shut. It made a loud noise so any person would turn around to see what it was. Jim’s daughter Elizabeth just stands there, doesn’t even look back. He then realizes that she is deaf. Jim immediately feels horrible and holds her in his arm and just cries and apologizes. When Jim tells that story Huck realizes that a slave family is just like any other white family. That shows that he is maturing and making his own decisions about what to believe. By the end of the novel Huck changes his mind about the way he feels about Jim and slaves in general. He realizes that they are like everyone else. “It was