In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, describes how the main character, Huck, is taken out of his bland, ordinary world to help free a slave's life and his own. The boy will go on an extravagant adventure , gaining knowledge that could change history yet fulfills his wish of escaping society. Huck would rather be in old rags and sugar-hogshead then feeling out of place trying to be “sivilized”.Civilization in the child’s mind is being lonely and fending for himself. Campbell’s monomyth will break Huckleberry Finn down into 3 different stages to give a better understanding of Huck and his adventure. The call to adventure, supreme ordeal, and transformation are the main three topics that make up the monomyth.
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Threshold pertains to an act that you cannot come back from and if you can, you're different. Huck’s first threshold moment is whenever he fakes his own death. This was something well-planned and most have gone perfect or it would have been figured out. The second threshold would be whenever Huck tore apart the letter and stated, "All right, then, I'll GO to hell"—and tore it up” (Twain 189). At that very moment, Huck’s morals changed, meaning he would rather go to hell than betray a friend or a human. In this adventure, not only were there juvenile calls but also, fake mentors. Whenever a reader witnesses the feel of Tom, they will believe that he is the mentor. Tom supposedly reads novels and lives his life by them. The real mentor in the novel is Jim. Jim would be considered the father figure which is extremely strange due to the fact of racism at the time. An example of Jim being an mentor is whenever Tom was shot and he made him wait for a doctor, despite the possibility of being captured again. "Well, den, dis is de way it look to me, Huck. Ef it wuz HIM dat 'uz bein' sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he say, 'Go on en save me, nemmine 'bout a doctor f'r to save dis one?' Is dat like Mars Tom Sawyer? Would he say dat? You BET he wouldn't! WELL, den, is JIM gywne to say it? No, sah—I doan' budge a step out'n dis place 'dout a DOCTOR, not …show more content…
The transition will show the dark underworld of Huck's experiences. This will demonstrate him going against morals of society and overcoming social customs. Huck has the past the demons, which is considered society and move past his guilt. Another issue Huck must get over is Tom. Tom is a romantic illusion and is in Huck’s way while he tries to free Jim, then in which Tom states, “its not complicated enough” (Twain 207). Another example of Tom being a romantic illusion would be whenever the fifteen guys came and shot Tom and Jim got recaptured. “We was all glad as we could be, but Tom was the gladdest of all be- cause he had a bullet in the calf of his leg….They cussed Jim considerble, though, and give him a cuff or two side the head once in a while, but Jim never said nothing, and he never let on to know me, and they took him to the same cabin, and put his own clothes on him, and chained him again, and not to no bed-leg this time, but to a big staple drove into the bottom log, and chained his hands, too, and both legs, and said he warn't to have nothing but bread and water to eat after this till his owner come, or he was sold at auction because he didn't come in a certain length of time” (Twain 243). In addition to this, it creates hardship for Huck. After going through the underworld, Huck receives a reward. Huck’s reward would be that Jim is free and still has all of the money. Another reward that could be
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Threshold pertains to an act that you cannot come back from and if you can, you're different. Huck’s first threshold moment is whenever he fakes his own death. This was something well-planned and most have gone perfect or it would have been figured out. The second threshold would be whenever Huck tore apart the letter and stated, "All right, then, I'll GO to hell"—and tore it up” (Twain 189). At that very moment, Huck’s morals changed, meaning he would rather go to hell than betray a friend or a human. In this adventure, not only were there juvenile calls but also, fake mentors. Whenever a reader witnesses the feel of Tom, they will believe that he is the mentor. Tom supposedly reads novels and lives his life by them. The real mentor in the novel is Jim. Jim would be considered the father figure which is extremely strange due to the fact of racism at the time. An example of Jim being an mentor is whenever Tom was shot and he made him wait for a doctor, despite the possibility of being captured again. "Well, den, dis is de way it look to me, Huck. Ef it wuz HIM dat 'uz bein' sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he say, 'Go on en save me, nemmine 'bout a doctor f'r to save dis one?' Is dat like Mars Tom Sawyer? Would he say dat? You BET he wouldn't! WELL, den, is JIM gywne to say it? No, sah—I doan' budge a step out'n dis place 'dout a DOCTOR, not …show more content…
The transition will show the dark underworld of Huck's experiences. This will demonstrate him going against morals of society and overcoming social customs. Huck has the past the demons, which is considered society and move past his guilt. Another issue Huck must get over is Tom. Tom is a romantic illusion and is in Huck’s way while he tries to free Jim, then in which Tom states, “its not complicated enough” (Twain 207). Another example of Tom being a romantic illusion would be whenever the fifteen guys came and shot Tom and Jim got recaptured. “We was all glad as we could be, but Tom was the gladdest of all be- cause he had a bullet in the calf of his leg….They cussed Jim considerble, though, and give him a cuff or two side the head once in a while, but Jim never said nothing, and he never let on to know me, and they took him to the same cabin, and put his own clothes on him, and chained him again, and not to no bed-leg this time, but to a big staple drove into the bottom log, and chained his hands, too, and both legs, and said he warn't to have nothing but bread and water to eat after this till his owner come, or he was sold at auction because he didn't come in a certain length of time” (Twain 243). In addition to this, it creates hardship for Huck. After going through the underworld, Huck receives a reward. Huck’s reward would be that Jim is free and still has all of the money. Another reward that could be