Huckleberry Finn Ending Essay

There are many things that are very improbable in the world. For example,The odds of running into your best friend hundreds of miles downstream of the Mississippi is nearly impossible. As a result this being highly appreciated in a novel is very unlikely. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the ending chapters in which Tom Sawyer makes a re-entry into the novel interacting with Huck Finn is a greatly disputed and horrible ending because Tom endangers Huck and Jim and the reader is never being able to see Huck Finn becoming a young adult, and instead he returns to his old ways remaining a child. As a reader, one does not want Tom to return because it makes the current situation for Huck and Jim more stressful due to his imagination. Tom’s …show more content…
Tom’s return is highly disputed among readers because of the influence that Tom has on Huck especially when Huck always agrees with Tom, especially when they are planning to free Jim and Huck continues to follow Tom’s plan. The readers either like or do not like the idea of Tom being in control. The reader wants to see Huck make a stand and do what is right. Some may argue that this is a good ending because it ties up all the loose ends. Although the ending does do this, it does not leave the reader satisfied after reading it. The reader wants to see Huck finally become a mature young adult, instead the reader is left with a empty space because they never get to see this Huck.Tom coming back into the novel is not a good way to end the story.
Therefore, Tom only changes the chances of Huck and Jim being safe, in a negative way. He also changes Huck so that he is no longer the mature person that the reader got to see throughout the novel. The odds of this ending actually happening are very far from true. OVERALL, TWAIN’S WAY OF ENDING HUCK FINN IS EXTREMELY IMPROBABLE AND CREATES A SITUATION WHERE THE READER IS UNSATISFIED AND IS LOOKING FOR