Huckleberry Finn And My Antoni Character Analysis

The novels of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and My Ántonia the settings portrayed by both authors reflect the strong dominant force over the characters who inhabit that specific geography. The river in Huck Finn, as well as the prairies of Nebraska represent a powerful sustenance to the main characters of the novel. The landscape of the novels in addition, is a depiction of what the American identity really is and how the character deals with it when time begins to change their familiar settings and how the characters achieve a level of mature growth. In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Mississippi river becomes a significant influence that shapes Huck Finn as he travels on the raft. The character of Huck travels the river to essentially escape not only his abusive father but also to find his own sense of morality. The river brings Huck a sense of comfort and bewilderment as he notices how endless it is and vast with many possibilities. What Huck discovers is that as he travels further south of the river, the state of the South is complicated and entrenched with the concept of slavery, making it at times dangerous to the main characters. The young Huck is able to realize that society works in a manner which he accepts as well as rejects. The river displays that the American identity is having a difficult time transitioning toward change, being fair to all its people, and the people finding self-individualism by their own sense and means of morality. The identity of …show more content…
The landscape is able to help with the individualism and growth of each character in a such a natural way that demonstrates the reality and the representation of America as a whole country. The characters of Huck Finn and Ántonia manage to overcome the influences of social and landscape to establishes firmly who they are by the end of their journey in the