Huckleberry Finn Setting Analysis

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, takes place in St. Petersburg, Missouri during the 1830s. This town is in the south, and contains several morals and ideals iconic to it 's location and time. The location and time of this story serve as elements that, open vital opportunities, help conflicts gain suspense, and develop Huck and Jim and their important friendship. Throughout the story Huck manages to get himself into many adventures but also many misadventures. Huck 's mock-epic begins with him being captured by his father and then his following escape, and without the setting neither events would have occurred. “When I lit my candle and went up to my room that night, there set pap, his own self! I had shut the door to. Then I turned
Huck believed his father was dead, but knew he was alive by finding boot tracks, and was awaiting his appearance. The way that Huck’s father managed to contact Huck would not have occurred if the times had been different. The 1830s didn’t have telephones much less security systems, which enabled Huck’s father to break into the home of Widow Douglas so easily. The setting provided the perfect opportunity for conflict and Huck’s capture. “[...] He went for me, too, for not stopping school. He catched me a couple of times and thrashed me, but I went to school just the same, and dodged him or out-run him most the time,” (Twain 17). Schools did not have the same amount of security that most schools have today, and education was not a staple in many parents’ minds. The times in which the story took place, left Huck very vulnerable to his father’s rage and plans. "So he watched out for me one day in the spring, and catched me, and took me up the river, [...] in a skiff, and crossed over to the Illinois shore where [...] there warn 't no houses but [...] where the timber was so thick you wouldn 't find it if you didn 't know where it was," (Twain 18). Huck’s capture was the catalyst that began his adventure. His capture was a very simple