In the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the theme of a journey to freedom is very evident because it’s about a stunningly independent child who runs away from his hometown to escape the treatment he receives from his father, meeting up with a runaway slave named Jim on his journey. This classic novel, written by Mark Twain, is one of the few novels that is an American classic and required in most high school curriculums that found a way to be somewhat interesting. The story is about a young boy that is basically homeless and has no legal guardian, he is taken in by the widow Douglas, and Mrs. Watson. Eventually, Huck’s pap comes into town looking for Huck so he can get the reward money that Huck got when he found the gold
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At the beginning of Huck’s journey he has mixed feeling of his journey because he noticed some flaws. Almost immediately after Huck runs away he realizes that he is going to be very lonely and that maybe he didn’t like making his journey when he would be alone the whole time, “The talk got further and further away, I couldn’t make out the words any more; but I could hear the mumble, and now and then a laugh, too.” (Twain 43), this long, in depth paragraph of Huck listening to these men laugh together and tell jokes infers that Huck feels lonely even though he hasn’t been away from home for long. Once Huck had spent his first night after running away, he starts to enjoy his new freedom and the fact that he gets to make every decision for himself, “I laid there in the grass and the cool shade thinking about things, and feeling rested and ruther comfortable and satisfied.” (Twain 44). Huck’s reasoning to running away was a lot like the pilgrims traveling to the new world to be free from Britain, both wanted to be able to make their own decisions and live lives of their own; not …show more content…
Huck and Jim thought they had gotten away for the king and the duke when they got caught acting as frauds of family relatives and enjoyed having nobody holding them down, but just before they left they showed up and join them once again, "Did seem so good to be free again and all by ourselves on the big river and nobody to bother us." (Twain 199). The king and duke symbolize that everyone 's journey to freedom doesn’t always go as planned and isn 't always smooth as butter. Along the way they do horrible things to try and con many people and this goes against Huck 's morals so he decides to do something about it and sabotages their attempts to steal a family 's inheritance by hiding all of the money in a coffin that was then buried. "I 'd seen all I wanted to of them, and wanted to get entirely shut of them." (Twain 210)
In the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the theme of a journey to freedom is very evident. We see that both Huckleberry and Jim and on a journey to freedom in the novel and they both end up making it after some hardship. In the story we also notice that there are trails that postpone their journey or even change their whole plan such as passing the
At the beginning of Huck’s journey he has mixed feeling of his journey because he noticed some flaws. Almost immediately after Huck runs away he realizes that he is going to be very lonely and that maybe he didn’t like making his journey when he would be alone the whole time, “The talk got further and further away, I couldn’t make out the words any more; but I could hear the mumble, and now and then a laugh, too.” (Twain 43), this long, in depth paragraph of Huck listening to these men laugh together and tell jokes infers that Huck feels lonely even though he hasn’t been away from home for long. Once Huck had spent his first night after running away, he starts to enjoy his new freedom and the fact that he gets to make every decision for himself, “I laid there in the grass and the cool shade thinking about things, and feeling rested and ruther comfortable and satisfied.” (Twain 44). Huck’s reasoning to running away was a lot like the pilgrims traveling to the new world to be free from Britain, both wanted to be able to make their own decisions and live lives of their own; not …show more content…
Huck and Jim thought they had gotten away for the king and the duke when they got caught acting as frauds of family relatives and enjoyed having nobody holding them down, but just before they left they showed up and join them once again, "Did seem so good to be free again and all by ourselves on the big river and nobody to bother us." (Twain 199). The king and duke symbolize that everyone 's journey to freedom doesn’t always go as planned and isn 't always smooth as butter. Along the way they do horrible things to try and con many people and this goes against Huck 's morals so he decides to do something about it and sabotages their attempts to steal a family 's inheritance by hiding all of the money in a coffin that was then buried. "I 'd seen all I wanted to of them, and wanted to get entirely shut of them." (Twain 210)
In the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the theme of a journey to freedom is very evident. We see that both Huckleberry and Jim and on a journey to freedom in the novel and they both end up making it after some hardship. In the story we also notice that there are trails that postpone their journey or even change their whole plan such as passing the