Huck Finn When I Went Out To The Woods Analysis

Huck was trying to adjust to his new lifestyle since the Widow Douglas adopted him. He was not used to wearing clean clothing, praying and being religious, and going to school. Sometimes he escaped to the woods to ponder about the different beliefs and to get a break from the new life he was living. The woods also remind Huck of his drunken father who he despises. Pap usually took him to the woods where he could not have been found by others.
Huck was a white boy alike the boys in Tom Sawyer’s gang. He enjoys talking and doing adult related topics. For example, he engaged in smoking, sneaking out of his home, being in a gang, pulling pranks on people and talking about death and murder. It seemed like Twain wanted Huck to sound like an orphan, all alone and nobody to relate to. The other members of the gang had …show more content…
We get a glimpse into the narrator’s thoughts (Huck Finn). We get a view of the pre-civil war era when slavery was still legal in states and was enforced. In addition, we learn his ways and his reactions to events. For example, “I got the tin lamp and an iron ring went out to the woods and rubbed and rubbed…none of the genies come”(Twain 18). This added humor to the book because Tom Sawyer “goes by the book” and formed a gang based upon books he has read. As stated by Tom Sawyer, “I've seen it in the books ;and so of course that's what we’ve got to do’”(Twain 12). Tom was a 12 year old boy in this book and his ideas are child-like and imaginative. Only children would believe in genies and magic appearing (compared to the movie Aladdin).
Huckleberry Finn describes the gang’s meetings in run on sentences. Mr. Twain intentionally decided to put run on sentences to emphasize that Huck was an uneducated white boy. Unlike educated people, his sentences are grammatically incorrect. By also adding run on sentences, Twain also reminds the reader that Huck , a boy, is narrating the novel in 1st person