Throughout the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the main character, Huckleberry Finn, goes through many circumstances that allows him to grow as a person. Huckleberry Finn is an individual that experiences many situations that one should never have to go through. During these events, Huck Finn encounters internal struggles to go against southern societal views and he decides to listen to his own morals. These actions give Huckleberry Finn the title of being the hero throughout the story. In the fiction novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn transforms and goes with his own morals, making him the archetypal hero.
From a pre-teen age, Huck has no choice but to mature quickly and stand up for …show more content…
Huck’s final task is to rescue Jim from the Phelp’s farm where the fraudulent duke and king sold him to. Going against the southern ways in the 1800s, Huck risks his own life to save Jim. He has to go against the way he was raised to help Jim escape because he knows that Jim is equal to him even though that is not the way society views African Americans. “All right, then, I’ll go to hell,” (Twain 215). At this point, Huck is fed up with the selling of Jim and knows that he has to do something about it. Helping a slave at the time is viewed as a sin. Huckleberry is willing to sin for Jim because that is the right thing to do. After this realization Huck goes to the farm that Jim is residing in and makes a plan to save him but the woman of the house recognizes Huck as someone else. “Being Tom Sawyer was easy and comfortable; and it stayed easy and comfortable till by and by I hear a steamboat coughing along down the river,” (Twain 225). At Huck’s arrival, he has been mistaken for Tom Sawyer by Sally Phelps. Going along with her assumption, Huck knows that it is very risky to be doing this task. He acts as if he was Tom Sawyer. However, he knows that Tom is soon to be arriving at the farm. Tom Sawyer is someone who Huck looks up to but Tom can lead Huck in the wrong direction from time to time. As Tom arrived and is assumed to be his brother, Sid, Huck and Tom make a plan to help save Jim from …show more content…
Huck has many opportunities to let the world go by him and not take action but Huck takes initiative to do something about the wrong doings of other people. Along Huck’s escape from his father, Huck moves along the Mississippi River with a runaway slave and they experience many frauds committing crimes. Mark Twain’s purpose in adding all of the obstacles to Huckleberry's life is to show how life is not easy and doing the right thing is not the easiest thing to do. Twain uses Huck as the deliverer of his social commentary in hopes to change the perspective of society. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huckleberry Finn’s perseverance in the obstacles that face him awards him the status of being an archetypal
From a pre-teen age, Huck has no choice but to mature quickly and stand up for …show more content…
Huck’s final task is to rescue Jim from the Phelp’s farm where the fraudulent duke and king sold him to. Going against the southern ways in the 1800s, Huck risks his own life to save Jim. He has to go against the way he was raised to help Jim escape because he knows that Jim is equal to him even though that is not the way society views African Americans. “All right, then, I’ll go to hell,” (Twain 215). At this point, Huck is fed up with the selling of Jim and knows that he has to do something about it. Helping a slave at the time is viewed as a sin. Huckleberry is willing to sin for Jim because that is the right thing to do. After this realization Huck goes to the farm that Jim is residing in and makes a plan to save him but the woman of the house recognizes Huck as someone else. “Being Tom Sawyer was easy and comfortable; and it stayed easy and comfortable till by and by I hear a steamboat coughing along down the river,” (Twain 225). At Huck’s arrival, he has been mistaken for Tom Sawyer by Sally Phelps. Going along with her assumption, Huck knows that it is very risky to be doing this task. He acts as if he was Tom Sawyer. However, he knows that Tom is soon to be arriving at the farm. Tom Sawyer is someone who Huck looks up to but Tom can lead Huck in the wrong direction from time to time. As Tom arrived and is assumed to be his brother, Sid, Huck and Tom make a plan to help save Jim from …show more content…
Huck has many opportunities to let the world go by him and not take action but Huck takes initiative to do something about the wrong doings of other people. Along Huck’s escape from his father, Huck moves along the Mississippi River with a runaway slave and they experience many frauds committing crimes. Mark Twain’s purpose in adding all of the obstacles to Huckleberry's life is to show how life is not easy and doing the right thing is not the easiest thing to do. Twain uses Huck as the deliverer of his social commentary in hopes to change the perspective of society. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huckleberry Finn’s perseverance in the obstacles that face him awards him the status of being an archetypal