Examples Of Forgiveness In Huckleberry Finn

Forgiveness and Freedom We always observe in our lives a struggle between society, its norms, strong influences and natural inner peace. It’s worth understanding that our nature should guide our destinies and only after that we will truly understand the word freedom and we will see its power in action. In “The Scarlet Letter” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” we see how authors portray the moments of standing of person as a part of nature but not as a part of society. It gives hope and chance to learn how to forgive you and how to reveal true yourself… First of all I would like to say that Hawthorne’s aim was to show true freedom of minds and action as he was only comparatively and partially free by himself. He was working in custom
Huck is changing his views on life and society’s outlooks. In 1st ch. We see Huck as a very pragmatic and practical boy. The widow told him about Moses, but when Huck found out he is no more alive he didn’t care about him as he “don’t take stock on dead people.” At the beginning he creates the idol for himself in face of Tom Sawyer. And we see the struggle between Huck’s self-reliance and Tom’s influence. Tom symbolizes society with all its cruelty all the way through the novel, but Huck is in the process of standing a free person. First we see Tom in ch.2 when he tied Jim up. Huck didn’t want to do so, but Tom’s influence was too strong. Tom doesn’t think about other people. After reading whole the book I understand that this action was kind of symbolic. It seems like Tom (society) makes Jim a slave forever and Huck has a battle inside – to tight him (to return Jim for society) or not. I think this episode can show all the plot and main idea of the story. We see that Tom is cruel and don’t think about consequences of his actions. Later we see how Tom wants to organize a Gang Band. His idea was to rob people and kill them. After killing they should hack a cross on their chest. Cross is a symbol of holiness, but Tom gives new meaning for it. The same is with society—we put norms, restrictions and rules but they not always mean right or good. Tom takes his ideas
In terms of norms of society Huck sees Jim only as a slave but on the raft Jim becomes that person who makes Huck free and who shows Huck how not to be afraid to love in spite of society’s restrictions. In ch.7 Huck is faking his death (sinking body trick) which makes us thinking he is very smart guy even though not reading or learning. He took canoe, all beneficial things and went on island. After being 3 days and 3 nights alone on the island he sees Jim. Jim thought he saw a ghost (as in John gospel when Jesus was making breakfast, everybody thought he was ghost). After Huck becomes aware that Jim is a run off nigger he gives birth to hesitation in his heart. Society says to kill such niggers or to return them back, but he decided to save him. From this moment he will be Jim’s savior over and over again. But practically that means Jim was making Huck free over and over again. Huck decides to dress up (ch.11) like a girl and to go on shore to get known about the situation. After founding out about reward for Jim he returns back on the raft and decides to save Jim. Raft becomes a place with different kind of mentality. We see the distinction between “land logic” and “river logic”. On land the way you treat people is only Ego’s projection. Jim all the time show his naïvely saint soul and lives some mark on Huck’s heart. Of course Jim is not educated but he