Huckleberry Finn, The Shore and the Rafts Symbols

             Theirs not a thing in the world that can relate to how it feels to be free, with no worries, nothing that can bother you, while the sun sets, the sky turns to a color that your eyes selfishly gaze at, because your free for that one moment. But we all no that having no worries is just a fantasy, theirs always that thing that makes life become so tense that you would risk anything to get away. In The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain shows symbolism within the shore, and the river that relates to the mood of life. It helps show the choice a person makes to show the direction their life is going. What I mean by that I will explain.
             Huckleberry Finn Is a pretty easygoing type of guy, he really doesn't have many cares, not about appearance, or speech, or how "civilized " he really is. Huck is a very adventure bound person, always looking for "the lost treasure". This is just the type of person Huck is. When Huck is on the raft floating down stream with Jim, it's like your back in 1st grade. 1 "you ain't gotta talk properly", 2. You don't have to worry about why your doing things, you just do them, 3. Everything is fun, nothing remotely relates to work of any kind. This is why I believe Twain uses the river to symbolize the easygoing side of life, the side
             where all worries are washed away, and the act of being civilized isn't even real. The life on the river was an enjoyable time, never a worry, mostly always an adventure. Like when they first got on the raft in the early part of the book, it was to get away form the evil on shore. Huck was running away form his dad and had to get away somehow. Basically the raft ride was an adventure, they traveled all the way down the river, ran into the "bad guys", you no, the average adventure story. Like when Jim and Huck found all the items on the mysterious raft, and how they were going to make a living on the raft,
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