Adventure of Huckleberry Finn: Exstensive Analysis

Authors use writing as a way of expressing themselves. While some authors use it to express their creative imaginations, others use it to share their ideas and beliefs, such as Mark Twain’s use to portray the evils of prejudice in his novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel that critiques the lifestyle of southerners in the late 1800’s. It begins in Illinois when Huck is journeying away from the struggles of home. Along the way he meets up with a runaway slave named Jim, who travels with him down the Mississippi river. Throughout the novel, Huck is battling his heart, and what he thinks is right, versus his conscious and the constraints of a white supremacist society.

There are many characters in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, all of which represent different roles in society. Huck Finn, the main character is a thirteen year old boy who is for the most part, homeless because his father, Pap Finn is an abusive drunk that will leave for months on end without notice. However, the widow Douglas, an older women in his community tries to take him in and ‘sivilize’ him through kindness and religion. Huck does not want to be civilized so he runs away. The idea of not being civilized is brought on by Tom Sawyer, Huck’s civilized friend who enjoys extravagant stories and schemes. Tom is a gaming prankster in which Huck looks up too because of his carefree lifestyle and imagination. One of Tom’s games occur when they ransacked a church picnic. Unfortunately, Huck has a skewed sense of right and wrong because of the way he views Tom as more knowledgeable. In a way, Tom represents the civilized society that Huck and Jim leave behind on their flight down the river.

Jim, the other main character in the novel, is looked at as simple and trusting. Jim’s nature is of common sense and of him repeatedly choosing the right path for himself and Huck to go down. For example, an important moment in the novel is when Jim...