Theme Of Huckleberry Finn

Rory Bremner, a British Comedian once said “Location is everything, I’d rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel.” This demonstrates the importance of location and how nature’s purity is better than the corruption in society. In the novel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the plot takes place on the Mississippi River and the shore, where Huck and Jim, a runaway slave, try to escape their past and become free. While on the river, Huck and Jim feel free and can appreciate the peace of nature, so the river represents freedom and demonstrates the purity of nature. When they are on the river, they “feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft”(116). This does not just mean literally with the amount of space on the raft, but it also means they are free, because they do not have to run away from their problems. …show more content…
Since they have no worries on the river, they can think about various topics, besides being caught. For example, while on the raft, they look and “the first thing to see…was the woods...then a pale place in the sky”(117). Huck and Jim do not have to look for somewhere to run or hide, so they can observe nature’s peacefulness. The river represents the purity of nature because it offers the serenity of nature, which gives Huck and Jim hope that they will eventually reach a peaceful destination. This is significantly different from when they go to the shore, where they have to worry about people, who are thieves and killers, and they must make decisions that determine their