This dilemma launches Huck into a journey through many other dilemmas he is forced to deal with when he decides to try and find his own lifestyle down river. ... Huck is presented with long days of leisure, and frightening nights of abuse from his father. "[The leisurely days are] kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing, and no books nor study" (24). This lifestyle fits Huck perfectly, but there is a price to pay when Huck returns home each night. ... After trying multiple times to escape the Duke and the King, Huck and Jim are forced to shove off into the r...

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