What Is The Relationship Between Huck Finn And Freedom

Mark Twain once stated, “The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.” In Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain conveys both the river and the shore as places of freedom and reality. While the two are on the raft flowing downstream, both boys are able to feel a sense of liberty. After days of being on the raft, Huck explains that "Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft" (116). Although Huck was not a enslaved, he was still able to feel as if he was “self-governed.” He was not forced to discriminate blacks or follow any other rules that were imposed in towns near the shore. Huck did not have to pretend like Jim was his property,