Land and water are two physically different places, but the two drastically different places exert a new differing mental perspective amongst each other, as well. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, a young boy escapes home with his caregiver’s slave, Jim, and which they travel up the Mississippi River to help Jim escape slavery. During their adventure on the river, they encounter new people, ideas, traditions, and beliefs. Twain conveys the differences between the land and water to emphasize the new concepts or situations both Jim and Huck are learning and encountering. On the river, Huck feels “mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft” (Twain 139); he does not have to make up identities or remember a fake
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The Mississippi River is represented by blue marbles which were used to indicate the smooth, soft sailing and tranquility. The river is shaped in the way of a heart monitor to exemplify how the river is Huck’s life and all the racism faced by Jim is just the life and world Huck lives in. Since the land and water represent two completely different ideas, the land was represented by legos. The legos offer a rough, sharp texture and edges, which is utilized to exhibit the harshness of the world on the land compared to the river. Also, legos are used to build upon each other to depict the magnitude of each event that occurred on land. For example, the Phelp’s Farm is elevated higher than the Grangerford vs. Shepherdson feud to highlight the importance of the event. Likewise, white can be seen throughout this project and at each event displayed. This is meant to depict Huck’s innocence. Huck begins the story being very innocent and vulnerable, but as he sees the corruptness of society on land, his innocence chips away; he is no longer sheltered by his comfort zone. Huck is not oblivious to what is happening anymore. He notices someone getting murdered and concludes that death is so natural for the people: “everything had to clear the way or get run over...and it was awful to see”(Twain 170). Before, the only disappointment Huck faced was from his father, but now to see people act
The Mississippi River is represented by blue marbles which were used to indicate the smooth, soft sailing and tranquility. The river is shaped in the way of a heart monitor to exemplify how the river is Huck’s life and all the racism faced by Jim is just the life and world Huck lives in. Since the land and water represent two completely different ideas, the land was represented by legos. The legos offer a rough, sharp texture and edges, which is utilized to exhibit the harshness of the world on the land compared to the river. Also, legos are used to build upon each other to depict the magnitude of each event that occurred on land. For example, the Phelp’s Farm is elevated higher than the Grangerford vs. Shepherdson feud to highlight the importance of the event. Likewise, white can be seen throughout this project and at each event displayed. This is meant to depict Huck’s innocence. Huck begins the story being very innocent and vulnerable, but as he sees the corruptness of society on land, his innocence chips away; he is no longer sheltered by his comfort zone. Huck is not oblivious to what is happening anymore. He notices someone getting murdered and concludes that death is so natural for the people: “everything had to clear the way or get run over...and it was awful to see”(Twain 170). Before, the only disappointment Huck faced was from his father, but now to see people act