Huck And Jim's Quest For Freedom

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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is too become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” Albert Camus explains in his famous quote how everyone at some time or another has their own quest to find freedom in their lives. For people, freedom is getting away from the world and going to a secret place to think about their thoughts and actions. In order to reach freedom they had to make radical changes in their life and begin to bravely do things on their own and make decisions quickly when they are in a difficult situation. In Mark Twain’s famous novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck and Jim are both on their own quest of freedom to become freemen. On their quests to freedom they risk getting killed

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