I, myself, believe that I share personal experience with the main character Huckleberry Finn. Throughout the story Finn adores his freedom, and I myself display similar behavior. When Huckleberry Finn escapes is alcoholic father, he himself displays a unique behavior of praising and valuing his earned freedom. Although he's a character from a story, I myself am encouraged by the remarkable reaction Huckleberry Finn seems to acquire after he received his freedom. He was isolating in a painful and emotional environment while he was with his father.…
When talking about who Huckleberry Finn is, it is important to include the different pieces and parts that add up to who he is as a whole. This novel was unique to others that I have read because of the first-person point of view. It gave the reader an insight into what Huck was thinking rather than just guessing characteristics from his actions. From his thoughts and actions Huck’s personality circled around his immaturity, morality, and the idea that he doesn’t fit into the time period. From the beginning to the end of the novel Huckleberry’s immaturity was noticeable.…
1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a coming-of-age story where Huck gets to experience the world. Four lessons that Huck learns throughout the book are being loyal to a friend, he learns about racism, to make the right decision, and death. Throughout the book when Huck and Jim were going along the river trying to help Jim escape huck wanted to tell the truth that Jim was a runaway slave. But he never turned him in because he was the only friend Huck had.…
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.…
Huckleberry Finn's Formative Journey The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, revolves around the protagonist, Huckleberry Finn, as he travels with his former slave by the name of Jim across 1830s America in search of Cairo. As the story progresses, one can see how the characters that Huck interacts with over the course of his journey contribute to his moral and psychological development. Without people of authority telling Huck the difference between right and wrong, he is able to construct his own moral compass based on the interactions that he shares with the people he meets throughout his journey. The physical journey that Huck undergoes throughout the novel directly impacts his internal struggle pertaining to human equality.…
Huckleberry Finn has grown up in very extreme circumstances, and throughout his many adventures he has shown skills and traits that show how independent and resourceful he is for a boy his age. Given his adversities Huck sees the world in a practical, logic view that allows him to advertently asses his situations. He is also a very adaptable child, he doesn’t let himself stay in a situation that he doesn’t like. Therefore he is used to being alone on account of his abusive father prompting him to frequently run away, his crooked moral compass allows for him to slyly evade trouble and his disregards for most of society’s rules do not apply to him shows that he is excellent at self rule and determining what is right for him. Huck’s true characteristic as a non-conforming figure allows him to take on his journey with little to no hesitation.…
When the young Huckleberry Finn finds himself faced with the decision of whether or not to return a runaway slave that was traveling with him, he ultimately decides to aid the man in his escape, instead of acting on the flawed racist beliefs that were instilled in him as a child. In aiding the slave, Huck demonstrates this cultural collision in the racist south. This enables his transformation of character as he showcases his traits of morality, compassion, and heroism throughout the story.…
Huckleberry Finn is a novel about the moral development of a young boy named Huck, following his encounter with a runaway slave named Jim. During this journey, Huck constantly finds himself in challenging moral situations. Society has taught Huck all his life that slavery is wrong. Further, Huck demonstrates in the beginning of the novel a willingness to conform to others desires and beliefs.…
Huckleberry Finn Makes His Own Decision. Huckleberry Finn is taken place where slavery and racism is hugely used and courage. Even though Huckleberry is not races himself, he believes in the same rules as the society around encourage. When he has to be put to the test whether what the right thing is in what mind state Huckleberry Finn must decide.…
Huckleberry Finn is about a young white Missouri boy by the name of Huck, who goes on an adventurous journey to freedom with a black slave named Jim. Huck was forced to make many decisions that were viewed and regarded as completely erroneous by society, yet, he followed his heart and conscious challenging them all. Life offers two choices, follow society's customs or stick true to your own values. I once chose to do defy society just as Huck did, and it turned out for the better.…
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn When there is a variety people, whether they’re real or fictional, living in different circumstances will cause their attitudes or interpretations of life to differ. No two people see things the same way which means they are going to be affected differently. In the books The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Into the Wild, these differences in attitude are expressed through the actions of the characters and the results of those actions. Having different outlooks on life affects the actions of people and their common sense in different ways. One positive character in The Adventures of Huck Finn is the protagonist, Huck.…
Huckleberry Finn is a boy living a leisurely life with Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas. However, Huck desires adventure and a sense of freedom from their relevant members' attempts to make him the opposite of an adventurous and explorer type. Huck's deadbeat of a father returns home and kidnaps Huck for the purpose of claiming a large sum of money that Huck earned as a reward for helping capture robbers before. Huck fakes his death for a chance to escape his father. Huck then takes a canoe up the river to get away.…
Though Huck knew Jim before everything happened, he got to learn more about him while they traveled together and they became more than just a runaway slave and a white kid. Huck learned how to stand up for himself and others, he learned how to become dependent and do things his own ways. Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck becomes a dynamic character because he changed his view of society, relationship with Jim and is no longer impressionable. Huck changed in many more ways than people think, he may be only a kid now, but he will become a great adult.…
Huckleberry Finn is a young kid who has good intentions with most of his bad actions. He never really thinks about the consequences of his actions. In this novel he is shown as becoming more empathetic to those that he cares about, but when he gets caught back up in Tom’s schemes that empathy seems to go away. Huck is heavily influenced by the people that he looks up to, that is why Tom can also get him to follow his plans. In Chapter 7 Huck fakes his own death to get away from Pap, his father.…
Huck was a character who was able to see past race. Although he was brought up in a society that enslaves an entire race of people, he was never given nor never sees a reason to justify their treatment. As a result, Huckleberry Finn was able to not only befriend slaves, but view them entirely different than the society he was raised in. A second social issue presented in the story was child abuse. Huckleberry was abused by his Pap.…