The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain a young boy by the name of Huckleberry Finn learns what life is like growing up in Missouri. The story follows young Huckleberry as he floats down the Mississippi River on his raft. On his journey he is accompanied by his friend Jim, a runaway slave. Throughout this novel Huckleberry Finn is influenced by a number of people he meets along the way. Huckleberry Finn was brought up in an interesting household. His father was rarely ever home and if he was, he was drunk, his mother had passed away so Huck had no one to really look out for him or take care of him. Huckleberry had the life that many teenagers dream of, no parents to watch you or tell you what to do, but when Huckleberry finds himself in the care of Widow Douglas and Miss Watson things start to drastically change. Widow Douglas and Miss Watson are two relatively old women and think that raising a child means turning him into an adult. In order for Huckleberry to become a young man, he was required to attend school, religion was forced upon him, and a behavior that was highly unlike Huck became what was expected of him by the older ladies. Not to long after movi
Tom gives Huckleberry a false sense of excitement and eventually Huck leaves Tom's gang. Jim knows how to how to tell the future, how to tell the weather forecast, and is a very good judge of character. As it turns out, Jim ran away because he overheard a conversation saying that he was to be sold to people in New Orleans. Huckleberry also realizes that he can learn a lot from Jim. Huckleberry soon became unhappy with his new life because he felt that no one cared about him or what he did. In the end Huckleberry proves to have found a friendship worthy of having. Huckleberry comes to the conclusion that in order for him to stay alive, he must run away from his father and make his father and everyone else believe that there is no way of finding him. These two elderly women try to make Huckleberry become a perfect gentleman by forcing him to attend school and church. Huckleberry and Jim are immediately inseparable as they decide to float down the Mississippi River together. " Pap's comes in and demands that Huckleberry drops out of school, stops attending church, and that he stop reading and learning. Huckleberry finally found a living situation in which he feels comfortable in and likes to be in. After Huckleberry leaves he meets up with Jim, Miss Watson's slave. As opposed to Tom, Jim is very intelligent and truthful. Huckleberry sees Tom as the person that he used to be and was envious of Tom's life.
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