How Does Huck Finn Symbolize Freedom
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a classic novel about a young boy named Huck Finn who goes on an adventure. The timeline that Mark Twain focuses on throughout the novel is during the time of the slave trade and the main plot of the story takes place on a journey going through the Mississippi river. Huck’s story starts out introducing him as a runaway kid with other characters such as Jim and the Grangerfords family, who had a strange tradition of killing a member from their rival Shepherdson. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses the river to symbolize freedom. For Huck, the river represents a way out; an escape from the problems of everyday life. A river, as it runs its course, has lots of possibilities
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He found a man named Jim. Jim was Huck’s guardian slave when he was still living with Miss Watson, but after Huck ran away, Jim did too. They talked, spent some time together, and started to travel together; each of them had their own goals to achieve, but they helped and supported each other. “[W]e hunted up a place close by hide the canoe in, amongst thick willows” (Twain 36). When the two stream of river flow are connected, it take time to flow smoothly as for Huck and Jim working …show more content…
However, the river remains the vehicle that helps them escape from those obstacles. In fact, the author indicates that the river symbolizes freedom from limits, bogging thoughts, and behavior. Huck had a hard time trusting Jim because he is a runaway slave and verbally express “he would go to saving up….buy his wife,...and….work to buy the [his] children….they get an Ab’litionist to go and steal them” (Twain 66). After Huck and Jim spent more time together, Huck developed the courage to speak toward Jim about his pranks and lies. Huck feels more at home on the craft than anywhere else with Jim. Huck encountered many things on the river with the help of Jim. Each lesson that Huck learns, he learns it because of the river. Huck begins the novel with little to no freedom, even having limited choices, but by the end of the novel he has the river to thank for
He found a man named Jim. Jim was Huck’s guardian slave when he was still living with Miss Watson, but after Huck ran away, Jim did too. They talked, spent some time together, and started to travel together; each of them had their own goals to achieve, but they helped and supported each other. “[W]e hunted up a place close by hide the canoe in, amongst thick willows” (Twain 36). When the two stream of river flow are connected, it take time to flow smoothly as for Huck and Jim working …show more content…
However, the river remains the vehicle that helps them escape from those obstacles. In fact, the author indicates that the river symbolizes freedom from limits, bogging thoughts, and behavior. Huck had a hard time trusting Jim because he is a runaway slave and verbally express “he would go to saving up….buy his wife,...and….work to buy the [his] children….they get an Ab’litionist to go and steal them” (Twain 66). After Huck and Jim spent more time together, Huck developed the courage to speak toward Jim about his pranks and lies. Huck feels more at home on the craft than anywhere else with Jim. Huck encountered many things on the river with the help of Jim. Each lesson that Huck learns, he learns it because of the river. Huck begins the novel with little to no freedom, even having limited choices, but by the end of the novel he has the river to thank for