Huck Finn
Being alone gives each individual person a different sensation rather then when an individual is surrounded by people and society. Huckleberry Finn has the chance to experience the feeling of solitude and solace while voyaging down the Mississippi River. Being on the river also gives him a feeling of freedom; while being on the land makes him feel like a prisoner of society. While traveling down the Mississippi River Huck grows more mature in his judgment and perception of humans and the way things work. Huck begins to perceive humans in a different way then while he had been on the land. Huck begins to question things he had thought once to be right and has a hard time determining what is morally right and what is morally wrong. Being on the river allows Huck time to think on his own without the influence of others. It is in this time that Huck becomes more mature and begins to do things the way he believes them to be done. Huck's journey on the river is the turning point in his life; he now sees that there is no difference between a black and a white human and realizes that society has pushed him to believe. With the absence of others bossing Huck around he can now be the one to learn about who he really is and be in control of
He has new ideas about the world and people. His society would utterly look down upon him for that, but with all that he has learned during his voyage he could care less what society thinks. During Huck's life on the land society pushes him to be someone he was not. This friendship between a black and a white person could only have happened while on the Mississippi River, where no one was there to look down upon the two for being friends. Huck sees that life has more to offer than material things and doesn't want to spend his time stressing over them. While on the river Huck learns that even a slave is a human being and is filled with the same emotions of a white man. Huck is the one taking control and leading the whole journey down the river, "I read considerable to Jim about kings, and dukes. Huck has learned to trust his own judgment in situations. Most people would feel sympathy for a dog being killed, but they are filled with no emotion if a black person is killed. Even though Huck knows he is doing what his society believes to be wrong, he chooses what his conscience tells him to do, "It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense" (223). Huck is leading Jim through the journey and that shows when Huck reads to him. Without the influence of society Huck would be an entirely different person.
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