One's Own Will, Huckleberry Finn's journey for freedom
Throughout the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Huck Finn), Huck Finn is constantly in search of freedom from society's unjust expectations of boys and whites as a whole. As shown throughout the book, society has expected all whites to think of black slaves as property, people without freedom or the ability to make decisions. Huck Finn faces a constant moral battle that takes place over the course of the book. One voice is siding with the common views of society, saying that Huck should treat Jim as a common slave as shown in this statement by Huck, " . . . he was most free . . . I could get that out of my conscience, no how nor way." The secondary voice is reminding Huck that there is a moral conflict in treating his friend as property. In the beginning, Huck plays with the slaves without really thinking about the issue of equality or the social status of slaves. His ideology of slaves at the beginning of the book is more in line with the primary voice that he has been predisposed to thinking. Huck's first recorded interaction with Jim was when Jim used his fortune-telling hairball to find out whether or not Huck's father was b
Instead of looking down upon the each other, they began looking upon the other on the same level, without worrying about society's predetermined ideology. When Huck began to realize that Jim's advice was valid and for his own sake, he began to take into regard Jim's friendship more than before. The trust he imposed on Jim, evident in Huck's mind after saying, " . Mark Twain uses Huck Finn as a means of proving that all individuals need to be protected from society's undue influences. I wouldn't ever take a-holt of a snakeskin again with my hands . While the request from help by Huck to Jim starts the move toward secondary ideology, Huck moves even further toward the ideology of the secondary voice in chapter ten, when he places a dead rattlesnake near Jim's sleeping place. As the novel progresses, the relationship between Huck and Jim becomes one that is gradually reaching a certain type of equality not seen common between slaves and whites. His transition from the initial, predisposed ideology of society to the secondary ideology has been reached, because he is sacrificing the ultimate possession, which is his supposed admittance into heaven. Huck's willingness to voluntarily ask for assistance from a slave's help was an obvious sign of Huck entering into the transitional stage in his mind about the issue. Huck is faced with the challenging moral dilemma of whether or not to turn Huck back into Miss Watson or to rescue him. Even though the rattlesnake ends up injuring Jim for four days, the fact that Huck was playing a joke on Jim symbolized that he thought of Jim as his new companion. This sort of diction gives the reader a greater sense of unity between Huck Finn and Jim that wasn't seen before.
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