Huck Finn: The Trees and the Towns
The journey of mankind's evolution from the barbaric apes of the past to the thriving civilization would not have happened without the trees, plants, and animals that supported such advancements. However, due to such advancement mankind begin to gradually distance itself from nature choosing instead to focus on their towns and cities. In the 1884 classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain chronicles a little boy’s journey on the Mississippi river that sharply contrasts the freedom and wildness of nature in comparison to the restricting civilization on the river’s shore, and builds a story where one can discover the wonders that only nature can provide.
Huck Finn
In society, specific people feel …show more content…
The towns in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn seethe in racism, ignorance, violence, and conflict. The lives of the ordinary folks living in these towns seem to always involve predicaments whether it’s war between two families, robbers, shootings, mobs, or just pure lying and deceit. Furthermore, whenever Huck and Jim arrive in a new town, the town pulls them into further turmoil. Huck and Jim are free and untroubled when they travel on the river, but as soon as they encounter a town or people their peaceful times stop. Mark twain reveals the evils of civilization by painting the towns as a scenery of deceit and trouble, and showing the dangers it can bring when you stray too far from …show more content…
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, nature offers comfort, relief, support, and freedom. Only with the use of the river Jim escapes the bonds of slavery, and with the food and shelter that nature provides that allows them advance through the journey. Civilization shuns the behavior of Huck with his practical morals, however he finds acceptance and comfort in nature. Huck and Jim can find solace in nature, and at the end of the day after they always go back to their safe place on the river. Mark Twain reveals the sanctity of nature, building it as a place where one can truly find freedom and relief from their troubles, contrasting the struggles that civilization
The journey of mankind's evolution from the barbaric apes of the past to the thriving civilization would not have happened without the trees, plants, and animals that supported such advancements. However, due to such advancement mankind begin to gradually distance itself from nature choosing instead to focus on their towns and cities. In the 1884 classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain chronicles a little boy’s journey on the Mississippi river that sharply contrasts the freedom and wildness of nature in comparison to the restricting civilization on the river’s shore, and builds a story where one can discover the wonders that only nature can provide.
Huck Finn
In society, specific people feel …show more content…
The towns in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn seethe in racism, ignorance, violence, and conflict. The lives of the ordinary folks living in these towns seem to always involve predicaments whether it’s war between two families, robbers, shootings, mobs, or just pure lying and deceit. Furthermore, whenever Huck and Jim arrive in a new town, the town pulls them into further turmoil. Huck and Jim are free and untroubled when they travel on the river, but as soon as they encounter a town or people their peaceful times stop. Mark twain reveals the evils of civilization by painting the towns as a scenery of deceit and trouble, and showing the dangers it can bring when you stray too far from …show more content…
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, nature offers comfort, relief, support, and freedom. Only with the use of the river Jim escapes the bonds of slavery, and with the food and shelter that nature provides that allows them advance through the journey. Civilization shuns the behavior of Huck with his practical morals, however he finds acceptance and comfort in nature. Huck and Jim can find solace in nature, and at the end of the day after they always go back to their safe place on the river. Mark Twain reveals the sanctity of nature, building it as a place where one can truly find freedom and relief from their troubles, contrasting the struggles that civilization