Huck Finn Go To Hell

It was not the plan to grow up, but that is what happened and perhaps it was for the best. In the classic 1884 novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” young, twelve-year old Huckleberry ‘Huck’ Finn embarks on a journey that will forever alter how he views the world around him as he travels with the slave, Jim, and how their relationship changes and develops throughout the novel and why it is significant. If we jumped into a time machine and traveled back to the 1830’s, about 1835 to be exact, before the Civil War, we could step out and talk to Jim and Huck ourselves. Unfortunately, due to lack of technological development in the department of space and time travel, it is not possible as of now, and the idea is merely that - an idea. Now …show more content…
Huck sees this as an improper decision, one that will forever lose him the respect of all the white people who see him, but we, as the reader, can see it as a sign that Huck is listening to his true feelings and not just following everybody else, and acting out of the goodness of his heart. It is this moment when he finally draws the line, that he’d rather go to hell because he helped his friend and made his own decisions about what he wanted to do instead of following what everyone else decided was the right thing than letting Jim wait for him endlessly and then be sold and end up going to everyone else’s heaven. It is for this reason that he so fervently denied being adopted by Aunt Sally and decides to head west instead; in his words “…I can’t stand it. I been there before”