Twain
Drifting toward Freedom In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain, through the character Huck, tells the story of a young boy's coming of age amidst the conflicts and constraints of mid-1800s society. A recurring theme throughout the novel is the conflict between society and the individual. As Twain developed the plot he was able to to weave in his criticism of society. The idyllic life on the raft contrasts sharply with the deceit, greed, and prejudice found on the shores of the Mississippi. For Huck and Jim, the River serves as a refuge from the crippling values of the "dry land of civilization". The river embodies the freedom for which Huck and Jim were searching. These two runaways - one a slave, the other an uneducated, and defiant boy - attempt to build a sanctuary from civilization upon their raft. It is here on the river that they can experience what it is like to be truly free from the expectations of society. Huck longs for nothing more than an escape from the harsh cruelties of "sivilization" so he "lit out...and was free and satisfied"(Twain). The river offers Huck refuge from a society so corrupt, that it would place a young boy in the hands of a drunken and abusive father. On the rive
I studied a minute sort of holding my breath, and then I says to myself: 'All right, then, I'll go to hell'. Two feuding families, the Grangerfords and the Sheperdsons, are a satirized look at the lives of Southerners and of organized religion. Because of this, it is understandable that he would prefer the freedom of the river to the hypocrisy of the shore. The Duke and Dauphin provide an insight into the lives and values of the shore, and show a deep contrast between Jim and Huck, and the rest of society. Twain gave freedom to Huck and Jim and showed that all races of humans share like feelings and should all be treated as equals. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain throws the curious yet innocent mind of Huck Finn out into a very hypocritical, judgmental, and hostile world, yet Huck has one escape--the Mississippi River constantly flowing nearby. Throughout Jim and Huck's travels on the river, kindness, honest an equality prevails. At a certain point in the story Huck considers turning Jim in.
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