Huckleberry Finn Themes

My Antoniá is a book narrated in the eyes of Jim Burden. Jim recalls memories of his time with the Shimerdas, a Bohemian immigrant family. Jim, 10 years old, is sent to Nebraska to live with his grandparents because both of his parents had died within the last year. Accompanying Jim is Jake Marpole, a farmer that worked for Jims father. On their trip out west, they get their first glimpse of the Shimerdas. When Jim reaches his grandfathers farm, he discovers that the Shimerdas are farming neighbors with his family. Jim soon becomes close friends with Antoniá Shimerda, who is only a couple years older than him, and begins to tutor her in English. Things take a turn for the worst when Mr. Shimerda commits suicide. Antoniá and Jim begin to grow …show more content…
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck has a horrible relationship with his father. On Jim and Huck’s long journey down the river on their raft, Jim becomes a father figure to Huck. Someone that Huck can look up to, which is just what he needed because Huck never really had a father when he was younger. Much like in My Antoniá, when things began to turn bad for the Shimerdas they could always rely on one another. With the death of Mr. Shimerda, times became difficult for the Shimerdas. Children in the family started working harder to help provide for their family. Through thick and thin the Shimerdas stayed with each other and supported one another. The importance of family is a central theme anywhere in life. With family things seem to be much easier to struggle through and in good times, much more enjoyable to have. Life is not always going to be handed easily to you. Sometimes you are going to have to experience horrible events. Huck and Antoniá have similar life changing moments with deaths in the family. Although Antoniá had a much better relationship with her father than Huck did with his, a parent dying is never