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    enjoyed seeing Huck grow from a young‚ carefree boy into a responsible young man with a decent sense of right and wrong. The "adventures" appeal to readers who had to make some of the same tough decisions Huck did in struggles with conscience. When readers first meet Huck‚ he is living with the Widow Douglas and trying his best to conform to her rules. For example‚ when he wanted to smoke‚ "She said it was a mean practice and wasn"t clean‚ and I must not try to do it any more" (4). Huck"s immaturity

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    Huck and Jim Timeline Description Proof/Evidence Acquaintances views as “property” | “Miss Waston’s slave” | Shows respect for Jim’s psychic abilities | Hair ball fortune telling | Huck sees Jim as a slave and is appalled that he had run away however he keep the promise he made | “Well‚ I did. I said I wouldn’t‚ and I’ll stick to it. Honest injun‚ I will” | Sees Jim as company | Jim comes when Huck is very lonely and they stay together in the cave | Huck

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain‚ Huck rejects civilized life. Huck despises the rules and standards of society such as‚ religion‚ school‚ and basically anything else that makes him look and feel like everyone else. Throughout the novel‚ there are many adults that try to civilize Huck but instead of taking their advice‚ he rather learn for himself. Huck’s hatred for civilization all started with Pap. During most of his childhood‚ Huck was both physically and mentally abused by his

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    hurt anybody. Mark Twain shows four types of lies in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: vicious and self-serving lies‚ harmless lies‚ childish lies‚ and Huck’s noble lies. An example of lying is presented right at the beginning. After Tom and Huck play a joke on him‚ Jim lies to all the other slaves about how his hat got taken of his head and put on a tree limb above him while he was sleeping. He tells an incredible yarn about some kind of spirits visiting him‚ gaining him an almost-celebrity

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    what? Whatever you think thats how Huck treated Jim. Friend‚ slave‚ or father Jim was it all‚ but I’m Huck’s eyes a best friend because of their situation‚ past‚ and how Jim treated Huck. Faking your death‚ running away to be free from everything‚ Huck had a secret yet so did Jim. Huck faked his own death to get away from all the things that concerned him‚ and Jim ran away after being a slave and learning he was going to be sold and separated form his family. Huck and Jim both shared similar reactions

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    Moral Changes In Huck Finn

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    about is the moral and character changes that Huck Finn goes through during his journey. In the beginning of the story Huck is a bit wild and very carefree. He does not want to concern himself with right and wrong and would rather play jokes and tricks on others‚ which he finds to be funny and entertaining. Huck’s views

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    Although the book features unrealistic character regression‚ Huck Finn’s ending was appropriate because it allocates space for further social commentary on slavery and Romanticism. The seemingly ineffective ending to Huck Finn served to mock or invoke change in the practices of

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    Why Is Huck Finn A Hero

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    of Tom Sawyer. Huck‚ as he is more commonly known‚ is the idol of most children growing up; at the same time‚ he is despised by the children’s parents. Huck Finn‚ in all of literature‚ is well-known by many people. “Huckleberry was cordially hated and dreaded by all the mothers of the town‚ because he was idle and lawless and vulgar and bad — and because all their children admired him so” (Twain 33). Huck is the son of town drunk. He does not have strong parental influence‚ so Huck wanders around

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    parental guidance or support. Because of this‚ Huck leaves his father and finds Jim‚ Miss Watson’s household slave. Even though in the beginning of the novel‚ Huck sees Jim as nothing more than just a runaway slave who is accompanying him to embark on their journey down the Mississippi River to the town of Cairo together. As they travel‚ Jim becomes more apparent as a fatherly figure and a mentor to Huck in many ways throughout their journey. When Jim and Huck are still on Jackson’s island‚ they see a

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    Why Is Huck Finn Wrong

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    no one else seems to acknowledge it? This is the In Mark Twain’s in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Huck Finn is the character who has the necessary morality and internal voice to be able to understand that the ideologies put in place by his society are wrong‚ but he does not only acknowledge this‚ he also tries to challenge the system that he sees as oppressive. Through his journey‚ Huck makes many decisions to undermine the repressive society that surrounds him in favor of his own personal

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