How Does Huck Finn Build Freedom

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Nelson Mandela proclaims, “Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” Relating to the novel, Huck tries and helps Jim become free, Huck is worrying about Jim rather than is money. Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Throughout the novel we find out, the main characters are Huck and Jim, who is a runaway slave. Also, we will find out there are other really important characters, that help Huck and Jim along their journey. The novel is about the journey of two people, Huck and Jim, finding their way up north to free Jim. With them facing many challenges along the way. There is more to life than money, whether poor or rich. No one can buy family and happiness, no matter how much money they have. The three main points the reader will find out include, Pap, Huck’s dad comes to town looking for Huck, so he can take his money. The second main point, Jim finds out how much money he is worth, and runs away on the quest to become free and buy his family back. Finally, the King and the Duke, cons who will do anything to earn money. …show more content…
Shoe prints in the snow revealed that he was still alive, Huck runs to Judge Thatcher to sells him his $6000, this is just so Pap can not take the money. They do this, so Pap can not take his money, but Pap does not believe that he sold it. Huck exclaims, “‘No, sir,’ I says ‘I don’t want to spend it. I don’t want it at all-nor the six thousand,nuther, I want you to take it; I want to give it to you-the six thousand and all” (16). This shows the conversation between Huck and judge Thatcher, when he sells him his money. Pap gets really mad at Huck about the money, and he wants him to drop out of school. Huck refuses, eventually Pap takes Huck to a cabin, Huck fakes his death and it is the start of Huck’s and Jim’s

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