The Fight of Huckleberry Finn and Jim for Freedom Every person defines freedom in a different way. A. Philip Randolph said once: “Freedom is never given; it is won.“ Have you ever tried to win your freedom? In Mark Twain´s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim search for personal freedom in a world of slavery.
Mark Twain was born 1835 and raised in Hannibal, Missouri. During his youth, he spend a lot of his time playing with boys on the Mississippi River and "became exposed to the institution of slavery" ("The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" 3), exactly like Huck in Twain´s novel (Twain 6, 9). With about 20 years he became a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River and learned the danger of navigating the river …show more content…
Both define freedom in a different way: Huck wants to be independent from other people´s decisions and wants to "create himself" (Orth 1). On the other side Jim doesn´t care about society as long as he can live near to his family and he can be a free man. Huck and Jim show so often throughout the novel how important freedom for them is: Jim talks about what he is going to do when he is becoming a free man and Huck just says how he feels about his independent life on the river: "Jim, this is nice,...I wouldn 't want to be nowhere else but here" (Twain 51, 91). After a few days living on the river, both get a break of it; Huck lives for a while with the Grangerford family and "Jim hides in a nearby swamp and repairs the raft" ("The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" 5). Although Huck lives in society again, he enjoys his time in the Grangerford family. But when he returns to their raft Huck enjoys it even more to be free- and Jim to be with is friend on the raft again: "We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don 't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft" (Twain 101, 119). Not even the raft on the river represents freedom, but also Huck´s and Jim´s friendship: Huck and Jim can always feel free, when they are together (Twain 121), but when they get split, both loose their freedom ("The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
Mark Twain was born 1835 and raised in Hannibal, Missouri. During his youth, he spend a lot of his time playing with boys on the Mississippi River and "became exposed to the institution of slavery" ("The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" 3), exactly like Huck in Twain´s novel (Twain 6, 9). With about 20 years he became a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River and learned the danger of navigating the river …show more content…
Both define freedom in a different way: Huck wants to be independent from other people´s decisions and wants to "create himself" (Orth 1). On the other side Jim doesn´t care about society as long as he can live near to his family and he can be a free man. Huck and Jim show so often throughout the novel how important freedom for them is: Jim talks about what he is going to do when he is becoming a free man and Huck just says how he feels about his independent life on the river: "Jim, this is nice,...I wouldn 't want to be nowhere else but here" (Twain 51, 91). After a few days living on the river, both get a break of it; Huck lives for a while with the Grangerford family and "Jim hides in a nearby swamp and repairs the raft" ("The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" 5). Although Huck lives in society again, he enjoys his time in the Grangerford family. But when he returns to their raft Huck enjoys it even more to be free- and Jim to be with is friend on the raft again: "We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don 't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft" (Twain 101, 119). Not even the raft on the river represents freedom, but also Huck´s and Jim´s friendship: Huck and Jim can always feel free, when they are together (Twain 121), but when they get split, both loose their freedom ("The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"