Selfishness In Mark Twain's The Adventure Of Huck Finn

Studies say humans rarely attempt on having an adventure, but it’s usually on the top of most bucket lists. The need for adventure has been shown many times throughout history. Like when Christopher Columbus discovered America, Lewis and Clark’s discovery of the west. See the need for adventure isn’t just great for stories but it’s great in history as well. In Mark Twain’s book The Adventure Of Huck and Finn he shows that the need for adventure is driven by selfishness by Tom wanting a more complicated plan to free Jim, and Huck wanting to explore the wrecked steamboat. The first way Mark Twain shows that the need for adventure is driven by selfishness is through Tom wanting a more complicated plan to free Jim. The king sold Jim to the Phelp’s for 40 dollars so he could go get drunk. Huck is determined to go and get him back. Along the way he reunites with Tom Sawyer. Huck suggests “Well, then, I says how’ll it do to saw him out, the way I done before I was murdered that time? That’s more like, he says. It’s real mysterious and troublesome, and good he says but I bet we can …show more content…
There is a storm while Huck and Jim are on the raft. They come across a wrecked steamboat. Huck feels the need to go on there and look to loot it. Huck states “I can’t rest, Jim, till we give her a rummaging. Do you reckon Tom Sawyer would ever go by this thing? Not for pie, he wouldn’t. He’d call it an adventure.” (67) Here Huck is determined to go on to the wrecked steamboat to look for possible loot that was left over. Jim has no interest in having an “adventure” on the steamboat. Huck’s selfishness convinces Jim to go with him onto the wrecked steamboat. Huck’s drive for having an adventure has blocked out everything Jim has to say about going onto the steamboat. Jim has no voice in this decision because Huck is only caring about himself and not