In the books Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, and Fences by August Wilson, there are common themes that run throughout the book. Among these are two, hard working men that can be a bit disillusioned by life. The main character of each book, Willy Loman and Troy Maxson are similar in many ways. They both try hard to be good men and fathers, but unfortunately, they are imperfect in both aspects. Troy distances his self from his youngest son, and many could say that he is too hard and cold towards him. Willy in a way believes that his grown sons could not have done any wrong when they were younger and do no wrong now. But these two fathers are not totally bad. There are many good personal traits that they both display in these books. But as stated as before, they weren't perfect at all.…
Jim, a mistreated slave in search for freedom, and Huck, fleeing the attributes of a physically…
At the very start of this section Huck sets out for town disguised as a woman only to find out that Jim was blamed for Huck’s “murder.” Huck raced back to Jim and they set off down the river. These two eventually came upon the wreck of a steamboat where once aboard, they discovered two men attempting to plan a murder. Quietly, the two stole as much supplies as they could carry, along with the two planned murderer’s canoe, and set off down the river once again. Down river they warned a steamboat captain of the wreck and he went to investigate the wreck. After Jim and Huck were separated from a storm, Huck stumbled upon a Hatfield and McCoy feud brewing between the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons. A Grangerford slave named Jack led Huck back to…
Huckleberry Finn is a novel set in the rural south of the United States during a period in history when slavery and racism were part of everyday life. The novel introduces two main characters: Huck Finn, an adventurous but naïve, white boy, and Jim, a runaway slave whom is travelling with Huck down the Mississippi River. Throughout the course of the novel, both characters are faced with their individual internal struggles; Huck in particular is faced with the pressing notion of whether or not he should turn Jim in to his rightful owner and do the “right” thing, or disobey the law and help Jim obtain his freedom. Being nothing more than a foolish and naïve boy, Huck does not know the meaning of true love and friendship, until Jim opens up to him and they begin to bond no longer as white boy and black slave, but as humans.…
Huckleberry Finn is always ready to go on any type of adventure with his best friend Tom Sawyer. Also, the pair are extremely superstitious. Huck is discriminated against for a myriad of reasons. Some being, he is the son of the town drunk, so the adults frown upon him. Because of his father’s lifestyle he is basically an orphan, he has to find his own food, clothes, and a place to sleep. He also does not attend church or school. Opposite to that, the boys of the town envy him for his freedom and lack of discipline. The Widow Douglass who…
While Huck and Jim struggle to rid themselves of the sordid King and Duke, the King and Duke themselves concoct a crooked plan of their own; they lure Huck away and then sell Jim for a measly forty dollars. Missing his companion, Huck is at a loss. This forces Huck to sit down and reflect hard on the situation. At first, Huck decides to write to write a letter to Miss Watson so his conscience is clear to pray and Jim may be returned to where he belongs. But this does not sit right with Huck as he remembers all the compassion that Jim has shown him.…
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a young boy named Huckleberry Finn runs away from his life and travels down the Mississippi River with his friend Jim, a runaway slave. The story follows Huck 's moral growth and maturity throughout his many adventures and experiences. The major turning point of the book is when Huck realizes that Jim cares about him, and that he cares about Jim in return. As a child, Huck is taught that Jim isn 't a person because of his skin color and that he does not deserve respect, but Huck discovers that Jim is a person and deserves more respect than most people Huckleberry met on his journeys. He comes to this decision because Jim cares for him and treats Huck better than his own father. Huck says “All right, then, I 'll go to hell.” when he decides to go against the racist teachings of his childhood and help Jim get his freedom (Twain 216-217). The book was written to show what life was like in the 1840s and successfully revealed the way people viewed each other and people of other races. In the beginning of the story, Huck treats Jim poorly because he is taught that…
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an important novel that shows how the two worlds of Huck and Jim collide to bring out the problems of racism and slavery before the civil war. Huck was a young, naive boy who is oblivious to the outside world. Jim was a slave with a big heart who looked at the world in a whole different perspective. Throughout the journey together Huck and Jim’s relationship was shaken by the cold reality of racism and slavery, thus slowly opening Huck's eyes to the world around him and creating a new foundation for friendship. When Jim and Huck go on their journey outside of St.Petersburg, Missouri a whole new world was opened up to them, they saw the country like never before.…
Huck Finn next goes to the grangerfords ranch, where there are definitely lots of problems. One is a vendetta between the two only neighbors you learn about in the area (the grangerfords and the shepardsons) and the other is the grangerfords insisting upon Huck coming to church with them, he probably would slip away, except they all have guns and he doesn’t think it’d be that smart. And then he sees one of the grangerford boys and his cousin killed right in front of his eyes and decides that the world and its many people is strange and untrustworthy. He seems, for a 14- 15 year old boy, to be very in tune to how everything works and how people could “screw” him over. He knows very well the ways of a con artist and how not to get caught which, in a society where you need to occasionally fend for yourself, he always…
Huck learns a variety lessons from the various figures in his childhood, some good and some bad. From his Pap, he learns how to fend for himself and to reject formal society, but he also learns about racism, alcoholism and has to suffer years of abuse. From the Widow and Miss Watson Huck learns about generosity and kindness but also about religious indoctrination and the boundaries of what deemed is acceptable in society. From Jim, Huck learns about love and compassion, trust and honesty as well as the difference between right and wrong. Floating down the Mississippi River Huck learns to challenge social norms and constructs when he decides to help Jim to freedom. The contrasting characters of Pap and The Widow mirror their contrasting beliefs systems. And yet with the help of Jim, one of the only constant characters in the novel huck learns the truth about the world. Huck’s new world image is tested when the King and the Duke, two “rapscallions”, sell Jim to Mr. and Mrs. Felps. Once again attempting to use his own judgment, but erring on the side of his upbringing Huck decides that Jim would be…
Huck Finn was a boy who had a fair home he lived in had six thousand dollars in account but he was still a boy because he let stuff he knew was wrong slide and wouldn’t put it to justice or try to stop it. Like when Huck does the wrong thing and lies to Jim when they got caught in the huge storm he lies to his friend Huck says this to Jim after word "Well, this is too many for me, Jim. I hain't seen no fog, nor no islands, nor no troubles, nor nothing. I been setting here talking with you all night till you went to sleep about ten minutes ago, and I reckon I done the same. You couldn't a got drunk in that time, so of course you've been dreaming." When Huck finishes the and Jim plays along with for a bit he reveals to Huck that he knows what happened and is disappointed in Huck for lying to him who he had sailed with down the Mississippi for some time all just to not take the blame for not tying up the…
Huck Finn is constantly surrounded by greed from most people he comes in contact with. Furthermore, the grangerfords and the shepherdsons are two families who are in a family feud between them. They both have kids that escape from their parents to fall in love with each other. Huck narrates, “En ole Mars Saul en de boys tuck dey guns en rode up de river road for to try ketch dat young man and kill him” (113). These families feel greed because Miss Sophia and Harney Shepherdson have a desire to marry each other and a plan to escape to pursue their dreams. In this case greeds role plays a major part in the morals of Sophia and Harney. Colonel Sherburn is a store owner and the richest man in town. Huck narrates, “By and buy a proud looking man about 55 and he was a heap of the best looking man in town” (180). Colonel Sherburn is a greedy swindler who swindles people for money to pay for his lavish lifestyle. To sum up, greed can be connected back with Miss Sophia and Harney and in Colonel Sherburn's lavish lifestyle.…
Huck watches this as it occurs, horrified. With this particular situation, Huck sees that even those society views as being the ‘most’ civilized, may actually be the opposite. He leaves his time with the Grangerfords changed. He goes through the rest of the novel with the knowledge of how hypocritical society can be, and it helps him rationalize his decision to aid Jim’s escape. Finally, at the tailend of the novel, Huck sees the greatest hypocrisy of them all through Tom. Despite Tom flat out stating that he only used Jim to find a sense of adventure, he turns around the next second and acts as though he has only ever been supportive of Jim as a freeman. The hypocrisy is shown in his decision to keep the information that Jim had been freed in Miss Watson’s will to himself, rather than sharing it with Huck and Jim when he reunited with them. Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain satirizes the hypocritical nature of society in the hopes that readers will empathize with the conditions experienced in the pre-Civil War era and apply it to their own…
Huck Finn is a child who is trying to get away from his dad named Pap. He was also taken in by Widow Douglas who started to take him to school and started to teach him about religion. He also joined a “gang” made by Tom Sawyer. They only pretended to be killing men and taking goods and women. But later on Pap had taken Huck to a ruined cabin to kind of imprison his son so he wasn’t taken away by Judge Thatcher or Widow Douglas. But as soon as Pap left the cabin Huck was already making his escape. As he got away he later on found Jim. And Jim was Huck’s second parent.…
The story takes place while Huck and Jim are traveling down the Mississippi River, heading toward "free territory". Jim tells Huck his plans of working hard in the north and then eventually coming back, to buy his wife and kids. Meanwhile, Huck has a guilty conscience. Huck feels bad that he is helping Jim escape to freedom, when Miss Watson (who was the lady that owned Jim), never did anything bad to him. In Huck's eyes, what he is doing is wrong, and that is why he feels so guilty. People at this time, did not realize that slavery was a cruel thing, because they thought of slaves more as objects. Huck is going against his society because he feels that Jim is rightfully Miss Watsons "property".…