This represents the way the two characters are feeling at the time, free from society's grip and able to quickly change their views and attitudes about each other. However, images of society are given along side the sides of this river, even though Huck and Jim are trying to escape them. ... It brings them floods and criminals, among other things. ... So, the river is not always on the characters" side. ... Again, showing that the river can go against the characters and not take their sides. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A part of himself desires to be bad and to do things even though he knows they are wrong, while the other parts of him desire to do good and do what is right. The river symbolizes this aspect of Huck's personality through the different changes of the river's appearance. ... This illustrates the side of Huck's personality that desires to do good, to be polite and calm, and to do the right thing. ... "(77) it demonstrates Huck's bad side that wants to steal, get into trouble, and cause mischief. ... The ideas of loneliness and feeling unloved, good and evil sides of Huck...

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• Grade Level: High School

Although Huck enjoyed his time with the Grangerfords, he did see the negative side of the, so called, "high society". ... The other was when Huck witnessed the brutality of the feud firsthand. ... He stole away to the river with Jim. ... Jim tries to shield Huck from some of the more gruesome experiences on the river. ... After awhile on the river Huck starts to like Jim. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

They mindlessly kill the Shepherdsons, all because of some old feud they have between each other. ... Huck asks Buck what a feud is, and this was bucks reply "'Well, says Buck, 'a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kills HIM; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the COUSINS chip in-and by and by everybody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud. ... Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. ... After Buck dies, Huck is eager to return to th...

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• Grade Level: High School

Huck & Jim A journey sailing down the Mississippi River, escaping your past to find freedom, that brings two people from different worlds, come together. ... This change was from learning to live with each other and dealing with each other's problems. ... Jim starts out as Huck's family slave and basically had no relationship with each other at all, until they actually spend time with each other. ... Now they become more as equals to each other. ... Jim is very loyal and sticks by their side even if he's free. ...

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The novel narrates the story of Huck, a white teenage boy, and Jim, an escapee slave, during their journey down the Mississippi River. ... Huck questions the values society has taught him as he goes down the river with Jim. ... You go en git in de river agin whah you b'longs" (156). ... Whenever Jim is left on the raft by himself, as Huck and other characters play out their schemes, his main concern is Huck's safety. ... He could easily escape, but he stays by Tom Sawyer's side when the doctor arrives. ...

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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is to pause and reflect". ... It describes how individuals in a group can be influenced by others to act a certain way. ... I heard about it away down the river, too. ... They commit fraud several times along the river, scamming money from innocent people. ... Twain also displays another type of greed in the novel- one that involves having influence over others rather than gaining money. ...

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Realism, however, consists of two other components: regionalism and naturalism. ... Naturalism was the other movement that evolved from realism. ... Jim, on the other hand, speaks using the typical slang of a slave, which is much less formal. ... Huck also found out that Jim had an intelligent and a compassionate side, which the white society had said couldn't be possible. ... Huck, on the other hand, grew and matured to a certain extent throughout the novel as he learned more about society. ...

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Huck and Jim's journey down the Mississippi River allows the reader to examine the attitudes, actions and beliefs of a southern community during the mid to late nineteenth century. ... Twain's underlying message for humanity is to be brave enough to break from what others assume is correct and just, and make decisions for yourselves and the ability to stand on your own and do something about it. ... Jim allows the readers to see the human side of slaves and acknowledge the love, friendship, and goodness that they are capable of when given the chance. ... Twain uses Jim as a ...

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Prejudice can be observed throughout the novel by the way the other characters treat Huck. ... In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, there's a clear example of the classes we put each other into is when Huck, the main character, and Jim were heading south. Jim and Huck are sitting on the banks of the Mississippi River, and Jim says "I owns myself en I's wuth eight hund"d dollars". ... As the Joad family encounters various families in the same situation, Steinbeck shows that some people are selfish while others care about helping their world. The people with money trusted the dregs o...

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• Grade Level: High School

Tom wants to be deemed acceptable, yet start a gang on the side. ... ""I saw a wild pig I shot this fellow and took him into camp I fetched the pig in and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with an axe, and laid him down on the ground to bleed Well, next I took an old sack and put a lot of big rocks in it I started it from the pig and dragged it toward the door and through the woods down to the river and dumpt it in, and down it sunk Last I pulled out some of my hair, and bloodied the axe and stuck it on the backside." (37) Here makes an independent decision that he ...

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Watson thinks that slaves are the same people who are just being exploited by other people. ... Watson] meant - I must help other people, and do everything I could for other people, and look out for them all the time, and never think about myself. " (pg. 8). ... Watson was the one that told him to help out others and never think about others, but in reality never actually helped Jim while she was alive (she freed Jim only in her will), felt or even thought about feeling sympathetic for him. ... Jim could not risk his only true friend who helped him get lost and possibly drown somewhere in the...

• Word Count: 2477
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• Grade Level: High School