Mark Twain's
Mark Twain's novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", is based on a young boy growing up in Missouri in the mid-1800s. The adventures Huck Finn gets into while floating down the Mississippi River show many serious experiences that occur on the "dry land of civilization" better known as society. These events follow after the Civil War and are told through the eyes of Huckleberry Finn. He unknowingly develops morally from the influences surrounding him on his journey to personal freedom. Huck's moral development begins before he ever gets on the raft that takes him down the Mississippi. His mother is dead. His father is mainly drunk all the time. Huck grows up following his own rules until he moves in with the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. These two women try to "sivilize" Huck by making him attend school, study religion, and act the way they think is the acceptable way to act. Huck's free spirited soul keeps him from accepting the lonely life these two women have in mind for him. The freedom Huck seeks in Tom Sawyer's gang is not much more than children's games. Still, Huck thinks that Tom is superior to him because of his more favorable family background. Pap and "the kidnapping" play another bi
After denying the fog event to Jim he says, "It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a slave; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterward, neither. Like the two men from the steamboat occurrence, Huck knows that their schemes are wrong. At this pint in the book, Huck still believes that blacks are basically different from whites. There were times when Huck made the wrong decisions, but he learns that growning up is full of mistakes, but that he learns from his mistakes. Huck's reaction to the event is strange, but unlike most people, he sees the good in people and tries to help them. Huckleberry Finn was able to rise above the rest of society. There seems to be a period in Huck's development during the "rescue attempt" that his moral development slows down. Jim has taught him what it is like to feel free while they were gliding down the Mississippi. It is important to realize that people, like the characters of Jim and Huckleberry Finn, have helped make the idea of freedom available to everyone who "needs a harbor from the dry land of civilization" better known as society. Huck escapes the cabin to search for the freedom he wants. Huck does not see that Jim is looking for freedom. He has decided to go against his conscience by freeing Jim, and in doing so rejects society. This action on Huck's part shows further moral growth. He escapes by tricking them into thinking that his dad is onboard with smallpox. He encourages drunkenness, prejudice, and abuse.
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