Huck Finn Character Traits

In the beginning of the story of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, one of the first things that the author, Mark Twain, addresses is Huck and his friend, Tom Sawyer, finding money hidden by robbers. I believe that Twain introduces the story with this topic to show that Huck is an adventurer and lives for the excitement and possibly the dangers of going on crazy journeys like finding stolen money. There are several different characters in this story that I believe influence Huck’s personality and character traits. One of which is “the widow”. The widow is a woman who basically adopted Huck because he didn’t have anyone else to take care of him. She is a respectable and poised young woman who tries to teach Huck proper manners and etiquette. …show more content…
However, since Jim is considered to be a runaway slave, they can’t stay in one place out in the open or else someone might recognize him and send him to another owner. What’s interesting about Jim is that he’s not like other slaves. He isn’t treated like an animal or a servant like most or all slaves were in that time period. He’s treated like a normal human being. “The widow’s” doesn’t treat him like her slave, but more like her friend. I believe twain is trying to show that black people and frankly, all people of all races deserve to be treated like human beings, and not like animals. I feel that twain is using these characters, in this time period and in this story, to break from the ways of society at this time in history, and show what it should really be like. He’s using Huck to show that not all white people think that blacks should be treated like property, but as human beings who deserve the same respect as other people do. Another section of this chapter that I think is interesting is when Huck and Jim are travelling yet again. They land in a small town for a bit, and two men come running towards them claiming they are being chased. So Huck offers them to come aboard their raft. What’s interesting about this scene is that the two men being chased don’t know each other, and that one of them is claiming to be the son of King Louise the Seventeenth, known as “Dauphin” and the other is claiming to be the Duke of Bridgewater. Of course, neither Huck nor Jim believes what they’re saying, but they’re not causing any harm or conflict by claiming these titles, so they just let it go. In my opinion, this section was funny and odd because neither one of the men knew each other, yet both were claiming that they were a part of a royal bloodline. To me, the funniest part is when the supposed Duke of Bridgewater was asking him