Huck Finn Comparison Essay

Now I’m going to compare myself with the character Huck, the main one, and in my opinion the most interesting of the story. I am sixteen years old, studying at school, having a relative normal life. Huck is about thirteen years old, at the beginning of the story is studying at home (these are our first differences, the age and the fact that he studies at home and I study at a school). I’m living in the state of Arizona. He lives in Missouri.
We have different points of view about education. I like to learn and assist to school, and in my opinion education is important because prepares you with knowledge and helps you to have a better life. For Huck school is not that important and to him it is not necessary, but after a time, before his Pap arrived, he begun to
appreciate a little that, and was thought it was not that bad.
We have mainly the same opinion about freedom, he would make anything to be free.
Example of that is when he pretended his own death. However he feels observed and controlled with Widow Douglas because she want to civilize him and he does not want that. He didn’t know that way of life, and doesn’t like it. When he was with Pap, he felt afraid and didn’t like to live with him. These are the reasons of why he escaped. In my case, I don’t feel like that, I like the way I live and how things work, but I’ll do anything to be free too.
We are against slavery. We think that everyone has the right to live free and in the way they want, but respecting everyone else rights too. Nobody can private anybody from his rights or freedom, because we are all the same, nobody with more or less rights, that is how thing have to be.
He is very superstitious, so he tries to not to do thing that bring bad luck to him and is afraid when he does something for bad luck, associating every single bad thing that happen to him whit that superstition. I’m not a superstitious person, to me is illogic to think that if I do something like burn a spider in a candle, or hand a snake skin, something really bad is going to happen to
me.
He had a hard childhood, his Pap was a drunk man, who abuse him. He thinks like a little boy, he is jealous because Huck is learning to read, and the knowledge he was acquiring. He feel inferior, he doesn't what Huck to be better than him. My father wants me to have a better life than him, he wants all his children learning, and being prepared persons. But later he was with Jim, who was more a good father than his Pap, he wanted him be okay, and was taking care and protecting him, what most of the parents want to do.
He likes to smoke, that is a little bit controversial, and he don’t care or don’t know it can provoke cancer or other problems. In my case, I don’t like and I don’t think to smoke because of the problems related to it in addition that we don’t need, so if he smokes, that is because he wants.
I’m not a very religious person, Huck doesn't too, but I sometimes bother about heaven and hell. He don’t really care at all.