With the lack of family support, it forces the issue of frustration and anger. Huck Finn on the surface doesn’t seem too bothered by his father and his position, however Huck’s frustration is shown through his actions. He goes against society in every single way possible. He goes against religion, making a joke of it whenever Miss Watson and Widow Douglas try to teach him about heaven and hell and God he doesn’t seemed interested at all. He engages in misconduct by lying and stealing throughout his adventure with Jim. He even accepts Jim, even though he is a slave and in society slaves were property, however Huck knows that humanity isn’t determined by your…
Huck knows that he had to stage his own murder so that his dad wouldn't come searching on him. He wanted to get away of all that horrible fear he had of what his dad would possibly do to him. He knew the only way he could be happy and leave his dad behind was if he knew he was dead. He was sad in one way because he knew that there where persons which loved him much, he felt pity for them because he'll have to hurt him in orther to take his dad off his back. It was a price he was willing to take in order to make a life by his…
Huck Finn is a character full of vivacity and personality who very much enjoys defying authority, being in nature, and being foolish with his best friend Tom Sawyer. However, once Huck and Jim steal away on a canoe and raft down the Mississippi River, Huck finds that he cannot pull off the same foolish pranks that he did beforehand; he is faced with the challenge of having to grow up. The first of Huck’s attempts at tomfoolery occurs when Huck thinks it would be clever to kill a rattlesnake and put it in Jim’s knapsack. Unbeknownst to Huck, the dead rattlesnake’s mate had crawled inside Jim’s resting area and bit his ankle. Although the prank turned out to be rather harmless, it could have ended in a fatal disaster. Huck says “…I warn’t going to let Jim find out it was all my fault, not if I could help it” (64.) Huck is afraid of Jim finding out it was he who put Jim in this predicament; perhaps his intentions were unconscious, but I think Huck did not want to lose Jim’s respect because they are all one another has.…
In these families, there was a lot of disorder and nothing was perfect. One can see that there was a drinking problem with Huck’s father and that Huck had no mother. It was something that could be seen in many families of the time. By having Huck with a drunken father, most of the readers can empathize and relate to Huck more than they would if he was a kid from the upper class with some dream of becoming a great general. Huck just wanted a better life for himself and to get away from his careless father. That is why Huck ran away and faked his own death. Faking one’s own death may be extreme and not something that happened everyday but running away happened every day in the homes of ordinary families. Not all runaways were kids but a good majority was and they simply became frustrated with their family life and wanted to make something more of it so they would run off. Huck was not the only runaway in the novel. He encounters Jim, a runaway slave, and together they go on the run for a better life. The two are a representation of the common people of this time as they go in search for the classic “American…
When Huck’s father comes back, he kidnaps Huck to a cabin located across the river from St. Petersburg's. Huck’s father constantly leaves the house, locking Huck inside, and comes home drunk. When his father comes home drunk, he would hallucinate and try to beat Huck for no reason. Huck was tired of the beating and confinement that he planned and executed his escape. Huck fakes his death by killing a pig and spreading its blood all around the cabin. He runs away in a canoe toward Jackson’s Island and hides.…
During the course of Huck’s journey he creates a strong wilful bond with Jim, and learns a lot about doing right. Huck thought it would be funny to play a joke on Jim, and leave the dead snake in his bed as a prank forgetting that the mate of a snake would come and lay with it. Huck then later felt bad about leaving the snake in his bed, and getting him bit by one. Before Huck wouldn’t care much about playing a prank but he learned that what he did was wrong and knew that he was doing bad, and wanted to change his ways. Huck was beginning to gain a conscience and was becoming more aware of responsibility for his actions, Huck was feeling guilty about his part in a criminal scandal of the duke and king, who plotted to rob the Wilks girls of their father’s money. Huck reminds himself that what he was doing wasn’t right and he needed to make a change about his actions, “I says to myself, this is a girl that I'm letting that…
He used to lay drunk with the hogs in the tanyard, but he hain’t been seen in these parts for a year or more.” But the widow still cared about him, “the widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb..” He faked his own death and took off, Huck could have just went back to the widow but he doesn’t like it there either because he didn’t like the rules like you can’t eat unless you said a prayer and you had to be on time. “The widow rung a bell, and you had to come to time. When you got to the table you couldn’t go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble” He wants to be free of rules and the so he ran away to the Jacksons Island and he was there on his own for a while until Jim showed up. Huck wants to be free from the civilized world and rules, he wants to be on his own. And honestly with Jim and him together they could make it, they made it this far by using their wits and lying a little. And in the end they formed a strong…
Huck starts off as an immature boy who joins a gang with Tom Sawyer and other kids. the gang wants to steal from innocent people and kill them because they didn’t see killing as a problem. Once Huck met the duke and the dauphin, everything changed. The duke and dauphin lied to Huck to earn his trust and think they’re good people. Later in the novel, Huck discovers that the duke and dauphin are no-good con artists that steal and lie and this helps the maturing process of Huck. Huck realized stealing is wrong so he steals what the Duke and Dauphin stole, hid it and told Mary Jane where she could find it so it could go to the rightful…
Most books read in high school end up being stories of the coming of age time for the main character. For Huck Finn this is no exception. Throughout his journey along the river he changes as a person from being a boy to a man. He starts out as a carefree and uncivilized boy attempting to break free from the constrains of civilization. He takes nothing seriously and everything is a temporary pleasure for him. This attitude was clearly expressed when Huck and a few of the other boys meet with Tom Sawyer to discuss creating a band of robbers. Huck readily offers up Miss Watson, one of his guardians, as a sacrifice if he broke the rules. This earlier version of Huck didn’t think twice about killing off one of his loved ones. Later however, Huck’s morality develops and he matures into a thoughtful and loyal young man who understands such things such as “…it don’t make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience aint got no sense,” (175). It was a few moments like that in the book that show that Huck really came of age and that he had grown up and his character had really changed. The book is yet another coming of age phenomena that young adults can relate with and should read about. Huck’s very different lifestyle may…
Later all their tricks led to their demise when they are tarred and feathered making Huck realize that it’s better to follow the law and instead of feeling a sense of justice, he feels pity on them because he realizes how cruel people are to each other. When Huck lies, it’s a little more acceptable because he’s still young, naïve, and doesn’t really know any better. When he lied and tricked people, most of them were to protect Jim so he wouldn’t be caught and try to get him to the North, but it later becomes more apparent that Huck didn’t want to go back home, to pap or Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas because he was tired of his dad using him to get his money and the restrictions The Widow and Watson had on him. Even though at first he thought following the Duke and Dauphin’s footsteps, he finally realizes after deceiving the Wilks family that “at last, [he was] a-going to chance it; [he’d] up and tell the truth [that] time”(182). During this part of the book he goes through a moral…
A good quote by Mark Twain is “I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.” This stood out because Huck realizes the right thing to do is give Jim a chance and not just treat him awful like the others. Huck actually gets to know Jim and realizes he is a good guy. So the way that Huck is compared to his dad is quite different but that just shows that not all sons are like their fathers. That concludes that statement about Huck becoming a better man than his Pap turned out to…
At the beginning of the book, we begin to explore the relationship between Huck and his Pap, and we quickly begin to get a feel for how his father is as an individual. Despite being a raging alcoholic, he is a very greedy man, especially when it comes to money and his son. “Well, pretty soon the old man was up and around again, and then he went for Judge Thatcher in the courts to make him give up that money, and 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 of the time” (Twain 23). This quote gives a perfect example of how Pap’s greed often resulted in rash and violent behavior to those who stood in the way of what he wanted. This behavior right here is very similar to what we see in both Columbus and Jackson when it came to getting what they wanted. Rather than it being taken out on just Huck though, these two men brought this upon thousands of Native Americans in their…
In the book, it is told to us that Huck hates the life the widow makes him live. With the proper mannerisms he isn’t used to, the boring routines, my childhood wasn’t much different from his. Though I have more freedoms now, I was confined to a small house growing up. It was once in a blue moon I was ever allowed to go exploring with friends, and we never went very far even when we did. It was only when I went camping that I was happy with my life. My parents would let me roam around and…
He decides to be a man that is not racist, not worried about wealth, and not worried about how other people view him. Huck humbled himself to Jim (chap. 15, pg.89), even though he uses the n word and you can make an argument that the only reason he said that was because of the time, which back then would have never of happened. Everyone saw African Americans as a different species that does not have feelings, but Huck, he had a realization that they are people too and apologized to Jim. When the Dauphin and the Duke try to steal the Wilks’ fortune, Huck steals the money back from the two robbers and avoids from becoming a greed seeking thief. Anyone else would have taken that opportunity and take the money if it was going to be that simple, but Huck has an understanding that this is wrong. He also chooses to not care what other people want from him or how people view him because he says, “All right then, I’ll go to Hell” (pg.217) if that means I’m doing what I feel is right. He does not care that you think he is an uncivilized baboon that hangs out with slaves because he is doing what makes him…
Huck had a father, not a good one but a biological one at least. Yet, Huck never looked up at him like one and didn’t really consider him like a father to him. If there had to be a fatherly figure in Huck’s like that he looked up and respected it would have to be Jim. Thought the book Jim showed many characteristics and actions that would earn him this title. He was found being selfless and protective over Huck, but in all he showed he was a true and loyal friend. Jim is someone that could fill in the father figure for Jim and fulfill it by being a loyal friend towards him.…
