Examples Of Identity In Huckleberry Finn

Josiah Ryan is 17 year old transgender boy from Virginia who is fighting for a right to be properly identified. It's human nature to fight for rights and to be respected by peers and identified correctly. Denial from a bathroom that you feel you should be able to use will make you defend yourself at any length. Josiah Ryan is doing just that and taking his case to the Supreme Court in order to find his identity. An identity is crucial in one's life which means, one should dedicate themselves to finding and creating their own identity. In the novel “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” Huck Finn searches for identity by, following Tom Sawyer's example, journeying with Jim, and finally deciding to live a life of his own decisions Our individual identity is greatly constructed by how others …show more content…
At first Huck dabbles with living a civilized lifestyle where prayer is important and dinner will be eaten as a family. He soon realizes that religion is a fraud and only nature will provide him tranquility. Afterwards Huck tries to rekindle with Tom Sawyer and the robber barons but Tom forces him to live in a household which Huck can't withstand. For a short amount of time living with Pap is an option but, the living situation doesn't quite work out. Huck finally understands his true identity when he's out enjoying himself living carefree in the wild. “it did seem so good to be free again and all by ourselves on the big river, and nobody to bother us.” An identity is unique to one human being it can't be given to one it must be searched for the actions and thoughts one has must create it. Huck Finn truly embodies the search for an identity and lives it well. He realizes that others may influence his identity but no one will make who he truly is. Only Huck can decide his and he discovers that living in the wild carefree is the way he will live his adventurous