Mississippi River In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Throughout the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim travel along the Mississippi River. Even in the title of the book, the reader can get a sense that a journey or adventure will be present in the story. Huck and Jim both go on this “journey” to Ohio for their own reasons but they both are getting away for their own personal freedom. At first, Huck was in it for the fun of it but we later see that he is getting away from his alcoholic and abusive father. Jim is escaping from slavery to be a free black man. As they travel along the river good and bad things happen to Huck and Jim. The more that happens to them as they take the journey towards freedom, it changes Huck as a character. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the concept of a journey is an important element because as they travelled along the Mississippi river it was a symbol of freedom and comfort to Huck and Jim.
The River was a symbol of freedom for not just Jim’s literal freedom of becoming a free slave, but Huck’s as well. Huck’s father, Pap, was abusive, an alcoholic, and was not a good father to Huck. Pap did unfatherly things like. He warned Huck to not go to school anymore because Pap did not want Huck to be smarter than him or took his
The river symbolized freedom both symbolically and literally. Huck and Jim had to go through an ordeal to get to their personal freedom. Going on the physical journey changed Huck’s character for the better. Both characters become close with each other and form a father-son bond. Huck no longer thinks of what society wanted him to think or follows Tom around. Both, Tom and Jim change by achieving their own personal freedom. Jim went from a slave to a free slave. Huck went from a boy to a man. The book has a physical journey by travelling on the Mississippi River but has a deeper meaning that is present throughout the whole