In Mark Twain’s classic novel‚ “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”‚ freedom is the prominent theme. Written over a ten year period‚ and completed in 1884 during post-civil war re-construction‚ the novel focuses on American society in the pre-civil war period (c. 1840)‚ and in particular the issues of race and slavery. The novel’s two central characters‚ Jim a runaway slave and Huck a runaway boy are both seeking freedom. “ It is‚ as Marx so capably argued‚ what the book is about‚ but his own
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without rules. However they didn’t realize that freedom comes with many challenges. On their journey‚ both Huck and Jim encounter many obstacles including: Burglars‚ losing their raft‚ missing the mouth of the Ohio River‚ getting caught up in the Grangerford-Shepherdson bloodbath‚ meeting the Duke and King‚ and losing Jim to slavery. Huck realizes that the real freedom is on the river when he says‚ ”So in two second away we went a-sliding down the river‚ and it did seem so good to be free again and
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a story like no other. Huckleberry Finn story is mainly about limitation and liberation. What us “peoples” to believe about. Huck’s journey down the Mississippi River is represents the everyday American highway of endless possibilities about what is going to happen next. Mark Twain basically transforms a boy’s adventure tale into what people would say to be one of the world’s great books. Huckleberry Finn was one of the first novels to be written in‚ narrated
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people during that time. Firstly‚ in Chapter 17‚ Huck went to the Grangerfords’ house‚ which was the most resplendent place his had ever seen. However‚ Twain used the fake decorations of fruits and broken clock to show that this family did not care about the actual essences but rather the beautiful appearances and artificial ornaments (134). This irony reveals that people during that time was very fake. Furthermore‚ Emmeline Grangerford wrote tributes for dead people. However‚ it is satirical that “She
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when he writes about the Shepardson family. This predominately Catholic family has a long history of a blood feud with the Grangerford family. These families have a lethal relationship together that each family brings guns to every outing. The pivotal where Twain satirizes these family’s beliefs is when he brings up the church scene. In this scene‚ the Shepardsons and Grangerfords families calmly sit through the sermon with their guns in hand. The ironic part of all this is that this sermon is talking
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While there are many themes expressed in the novel‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn one makes a stronger presence by its continued‚ if not redundant display of itself. Far too often in society people’s lack of knowledge on a given subject causes their opinions and actions to rely strictly on stereotypes created by the masses. This affliction is commonly known as ignorance. This is curable but people have to become open-minded and leave their reliance on society’s viewpoints behind them
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peacefully co-exist‚ ironically‚ with guns between their knees. The satire ridicules the hypocritical families‚ who have an ongoing murderous rivalry‚ yet discussed how much they enjoyed the preacher’s sermon on brotherly love. Twain’s story of the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons shows the readers the cruelty of man’s inhumanity to man‚ the absurdity of violence‚ and the hypocrisy of people who think their behavior is “honorable” or
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the backwardness of the people’s lives is the Grangerford and Shepardson family feud. There’s a point in Huck’s visit with the Grangerfords when two of the family’s boys are running from the Shepherdsons‚ they are said to have “Jumped for the river -both of them hurt- and as they swum down the current the men run along the bank shooting at them and singing out ‘Kill them‚ Kill them!’” (115). The result of the bloodshed was the death of the Buck Grangerford‚ a lad about the age of Huck who he had befriended
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Stopping the Repetition of the Past: Musings of Antebellum America Author Henry James has said that "it takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.” For over one hundred years slavery had crippled the African American people and aided the white man; however‚ when the Emancipation Proclamation was put into effect it would become a slow catalyst of change that would take over a century for the Civil Rights Movement to be at its pinnacle. Racial limits would be pushed‚ lasting tension
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tendency of human beings to continually impart injustices and inhumane acts on one another‚ most often sanctioned by religion‚ and almost always carried out by those who represent Christianity. Those like Miss Watson‚ the woman in St. Petersburg‚ the Grangerfords and their murderous feud‚ all provide Huck with experiences of civility that he comes to understand‚ or at least witness for the benefit of the reader‚ as deeply flawed in its cultural beliefs. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Mark Twain
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