Huckleberry Finn River Analysis

Freedom is one of the most sought-out things in this world. It is one of the things America was founded on, but it wasn’t always seen all the way through. In the early years of America, the Atlantic Slave Trade was at its prime bringing in ships of African Americans that would be sold as slaves to the white people of North America. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Missouri’s own Mark Twain, Jim was a slave that lived in Missouri with a young boy named Huckleberry Finn. Huck wants to be free of the Widow Douglas who tries to civilize and teach him manners and Jim wants to be free from being a slave to the widow. Also, Jim does not want to be sold as a slave to plantation owners, which would cause him to be separated from his family. …show more content…
The river is physically adaptable and is fluid. The river flows through different routes and at different speeds. The river also brings many different things like fog and floods. The flood waters find new routes and bring destruction to some parts of the state and hardship to the guys. Just as the river is adaptable, Huck and Jim are very adaptable to the circumstances they are confronted with. They live in a society where black people are seen as property. The circumstances of the river and their lives cause Huck and Jim to work together. Jim is quick to accept Huck as a friend and Huck begins to see slaves as people and not property. Their views on life and what they have been taught are adaptable and they both learn about each other and begin to see things in ways society does not. The Mississippi River is a symbol that changes from symbolizing hope and freedom to symbolizing danger and hardship and to symbolizing adaptability. Huck and Jim realize that the things they were running from, looking to the river to escape from, were still there in the end and that their differences can actually bring them together. Things pan out and Jim is a free man and Huck is partially freed from his crazy