Huck Finn Journal Freedom
"The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time.... so, when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out into my rags and was free and satisfied, but she always took me back." Huck is having trouble adjusting to living with the widow. He is accustomed to living free in the woods, without worrying about possessions, language, or cleanliness. "Pretty soon I wanted to smoke and asked the widow to let me, but she wouldn't." This is just another example of Huck losing his freedom, as on his own he would have done what he wanted to. "And then I put out the light and scrambled out of the window on to the shed." Huck is exercising his longing for freedom by going out at night with Tom. Tom and Huck encounter Jim whose freedom is taken away because he is a slave. Huck joins Tom's gang and they plan to take people's freedom away by holding them for ransom."Well, I got a good going-over in the morning from old Miss Watson on account of my clothes."This in part why Huck wants his freedom, of doing what he likes, because they
130-140 Boggs freedom is taken into Col. 122 They once again run into the problem of Jim being a runaway slave. Jim is still enslaved by Silas Phelps. 51 "I wanted to talk about the dead man, but Jim didn't wanna. 231-236 Jim is still locked up, but Huck is trying to free him. 200-208 Huck is on the Phelps farm and assumes the identity of Tom Sawyer.
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