Many are familiar with the story of Helen Keller: how she devastatingly became both blind and deaf, but then gradually learned to read and write through a conversion of attitude and a steady hand to guide her. Such is the archetypal transformation of death and rebirth that a character goes through physically, mentally, or emotionally, when a part of his old life dies and as a result new habits transform him. Although water is a destructive force in nature, it is commonly associated with the journey to rebirth because of its linkage to new life and the reinvention of self. In the novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain begins writing of a boy who is raised by his unorthodox, drunken father. This man conveys a derogatory attitude toward
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As the two friends journey down the Mississippi, both their friendship and Huck himself grow and mature. Their frequent encounters with murderers, liars, thieves, and hoodlums demonstrate how just in the same way that the river can be friendly and quiet on some days and rough and engulfed in fog on others, such are their experiences (Little-John). The river is portrayed not simply as a long and winding avenue that leads Huck and Jim to their destination away from potential conflicts, but as a road that allows them to discover a truer …show more content…
Based on the trials that a character endures, he is spiritually reborn, involving a struggle that leads to new self realization. The words of e. e. cummings, “For whatever we lose (like you or a me), its always our self’s we find in the sea” (“Goodreads”), represent the amazing transformational power that water can have. It has the ability to be destructive and deserting (being stranded on an ocean) but is also often refreshing, quenching, and cleansing. Water is the imperative element needed for life. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the migrant journey, and Life of Pi, it is the element of water that brings people the opportunity to reinvent the idea of who they truly
As the two friends journey down the Mississippi, both their friendship and Huck himself grow and mature. Their frequent encounters with murderers, liars, thieves, and hoodlums demonstrate how just in the same way that the river can be friendly and quiet on some days and rough and engulfed in fog on others, such are their experiences (Little-John). The river is portrayed not simply as a long and winding avenue that leads Huck and Jim to their destination away from potential conflicts, but as a road that allows them to discover a truer …show more content…
Based on the trials that a character endures, he is spiritually reborn, involving a struggle that leads to new self realization. The words of e. e. cummings, “For whatever we lose (like you or a me), its always our self’s we find in the sea” (“Goodreads”), represent the amazing transformational power that water can have. It has the ability to be destructive and deserting (being stranded on an ocean) but is also often refreshing, quenching, and cleansing. Water is the imperative element needed for life. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the migrant journey, and Life of Pi, it is the element of water that brings people the opportunity to reinvent the idea of who they truly