The average 14-year-old boy would try to keep the money and lie about it, but not Huck. ... He is trying to think of something to make him not help Jim, but all he can think of are good things about him... This is a big accomplishment for anyone, and especially a 14-year-old boy. Huck Finn, a 14-year-old- boy from the South, shows maturity beyond his years. ... Huck Finn is definitely not your average 14-year-old boy. ...

• Word Count: 638
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Twain uses Huck's transformation in order to create a novel about the growth of a teenage boy. ... Smiley and Marx fail to recognize how Huck is a thirteen-year-old boy who is realistically falling into the trap of peer pressure. ... Even though this regression may disappoint the readers, this transformation makes Huck a realistic teenage boy who falls victim to peer pressure and the influences of Tom Sawyer. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain shows the growth of a young boy through his realistic protagonist, Huck. ...

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Usually creepy crawly arachnids would fascinate a young boy, but Huck was fearful due to a mere superstition. Also, Huck tells us about Jim's good-luck charm. ... Throughout Huck's life, he is surrounded by role models that often have a negative influence on a very influential young boy. ... For being such a young boy, Huck has been very well educated in life. ... Not only did Huck learn about superstitions, he discovered religion and had to figure out how he felt about slavery verses friendship. ...

• Word Count: 748
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the story of a young boy's adventures on the Mississippi River escaping the society and being "sivilized" by Widow Douglas and Miss Watson. ... Huck begins to views Jim as a real human being after he sees Jim talk so passionately about his family. ... Their friendship begins to show after Huck lies about having smallpox to avoid Jim being caught. ... When Huck says, "All right then, I"ll go to Hell," and risks his soul to save Jim, it shows Huck's natural heart and the growth from an immature boy to a young man (Twain, The Adventures of Huckle...

• Word Count: 432
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The novel narrates the story of Huck, a white teenage boy, and Jim, an escapee slave, during their journey down the Mississippi River. ... From the beginning, Twain portrays Huck as a teenage boy who belongs to the lowest level of the white community. ... The boy is dirty and often homeless. Even though Widow Douglas makes attempts to reform Huck, the boy resists her efforts and retains his own independent ways. ... He learns about life in real world situations, developing his identity and a good conscience. ...

• Word Count: 1003
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

He is a young boy with blond hair. ... I liked this person because despite he looks like a bad boy, he has a good heart. ... This book is about the adventures of a young boy called by Huck Finn. ... So, Finn planned escape by making a hole in the wall, and for his father does not know about this, as a smart boy, Huck killed one animal, put it in a bag and pulled it to the river. ... She believed in him because her real nephew was a known friend of Huck, so he knew all the things about his friend's life. ...

• Word Count: 896
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Essentially, Huckleberry Finn is the story of one boy's journey through growing up and maturing through his experiences on the river. Although, while making this passage into manhood, Twain shows that Huck is a divided boy in his way to free Jim. ... Such pertinent and blatin evidence of this fight against conforming to what society says is seen when Huck constantly hears about rewards for a runaway slave. ...

• Word Count: 374
• Approx Pages: 1

Mark Twain created a realistic view of the troubles of a young boy and his African-American slave companion. ... The young boy Huckleberry Finn is quite a character. He's what people would call a "real boy." ... When in reality he only ran away upon finding out about Huck's departure. ...

• Word Count: 624
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Huck cannot understand why "a boy that was respectable and well brung up had a character to lose folks at home that had characters bright and not leather-headed and knowing and not ignorant; and not mean but kind to stoop to this business and make himself a shame, and his family a shame." ... It lacks the risk and danger that he has read about in his adventure stories. ... He decides that they should dig Jim out which could take about a week. ... He highlights the differences between the two boy's approach to freeing Jim and by doing so exemplifies to us that while Tom is obsessed with...

• Word Count: 518
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Huck, the main character, is considered an uneducated boy who is constantly under pressure to conform to the civilized aspects of society. ... This satire is no more apparent then when Huck's guardian, the Widow Douglas, preaches to him about Moses. Huck didn't think very much of her lecture; Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see...(3) Twain uses Huck to exhibit his objection to the blind faith that civilized society places towards religion. ... Twain uses a boy and a runaway slave in, The Adventures of Huckleberry F...

• Word Count: 601
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Words Hurts What would you do if you where a little boy who was taught about racism when you where a child and you had to pick the right thing to do or the wrong thing? ... It was a great novel and you can learn a lot about it and it was also funny and times. ... This is a little boy that had to choose slavery or a friend. ... Now what does that tell you about what Twain wrote? ... When Twain put his novel together, he want to show how people where treated and how a white boy could care for an African American and make the right decision even though that was not what he was taught. ...

• Word Count: 1050
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The central relationship of the story is that of a runaway slave, Jim, and a young and adventurous boy, Huck. ... In these pages one hears almost exclusively about Jim's various superstitions. ... In addition to reprimanding Huck, Jim teaches him a moral lesson about telling lies. ... This is significant because Jim, a black slave, is teaching Huck, a white boy, an important moral lesson. ... Jim takes Huck's night watch so that the boy can sleep. ...

• Word Count: 1224
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Through Huck (the protagonist) and Jim, Twain unveils the human connection between a white boy and a black man and shows that their friendship is stronger than the obstacles put in front of them by the culture they live in. What is unique about this book is that Twain's own boyhood experience was when slavery was an accepted practice in the South. ... As Huck is being told about this, his own sentences become questions and quicker. Huck is worrying about his friend, and that is why the sentences speed up. ... Huckleberry Finn is a tale of a boy who fights his society for someone else....

• Word Count: 887
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by Mark Twain, Twain writes about a young boy, named Huckleberry Finn, who's conflicted between being civilized by everyone he met and being himself; to do so Twain uses symbolism to show the struggle between civilization and freedom. ... I'll learn people to bring up a boy to put no airs over his own father and let on to be better'n he is...None of the family couldn't (read) before they died. ... Watson are giving him spelling lessons, sending him off to school, and teaching him about the Bible. ... After so long that people tried t...

• Word Count: 783
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the dramatic adventure Huckleberry Fin has shared with Jim, even though he is still a young adolescent boy, Huck gains respect from his readers as he matures and undergoes many ethical changes. ... From reading about Huck, we can assume his age is approximately 12-14 years old. He is still just a boy, taking on a challenge that is far greater than any one of the imaginative adventures thought up by his friend Tom Sawyer. ... At his young age, he hasn't yet questioned or pondered about why these things are the way they are. ... Someone who cares about him, and for that matter...

• Word Count: 622
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• Grade Level: High School

Petersburg during the mid to late 1800's, a boy named Tom Sawyer lived. He was a clever and mischievous boy with not many friends. ... Tom Sawyer is about 10 years old and is clever, mischievous, and is very tricky. ... On the way to school, Tom stops and talks to Huckleberry Finn, the boy with a drinking, non-caring, father. ... Tom accidentally starts to talk about Amy Lawrence, a girl he liked before Becky came, and Becky started to cry. ...

• Word Count: 1222
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Twain's use of structural irony allows the reader to see the vulnerability of this 13-year-old boy, and then grow with him as he makes profound choices in his actions. ... For example, he played malicious tricks on Jim without regard to how he would feel about it. ... Huck's journey allows readers to experience the racism through a young boy's eyes, and make the transformation to accepting all people as equals. ... That is what is so American about Huckleberry Finn. ...

• Word Count: 759
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the book Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twin, Miss Watson is an individual who is seen as being irritating and strict because she was never married. She also takes religion very seriously and believes in slavery. Miss Watson represents the values of society. She is seen as this because she yells at ...

• Word Count: 294
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

One of the people who treats Huck unfairly is his father, so the young boy finds a way to escape the abuse. ... Huck meets a boy that is the same age as him, Buck. Huck asks him what the whole cause about the feud between his family and the Shepherdsons. ... Huck gets uneasy about this whole fight so he goes back to the river. ... These two deceitful human beings are so ignorant, selfish people, and only care about money. ...

• Word Count: 1088
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Huckleberry Finn still stands as a powerful representation of experience through the brand new eyes of an innocent boy. ... If the author wished-for the story to be racist, he would not write about the way Huck felt towards Jim. ... Twain uses his main character, Huckleberry Finn, to convey his literary style and therefore makes it important to think about this character. ... Twains novel Huckleberry Finn should be portrayed as a novel that represents a young boy that grew up in that era and not one that represents racial bigotry. The ridicule of the slave race in the end permitted by Huck is ...

• Word Count: 918
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Another good example of verbal irony is when Levi Bell the lawyer says "Set down, my boy; I wouldn't strain myself if I was you. ... Another example of verbal irony that Twain uses in chapter 20 is when the duke and the king are interrogating Huck about their raft and Jim. ... It's quite interesting that Twain uses the fact that when someone tells you not to do something or warns you about something, it makes you even more curious. An important example of verbal irony that helps complement the main theme is in Chapter 26, when Twain shows that Huck was the only one who noticed that t...

• Word Count: 939
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Julius Lester speculates on the competency of Huck Finn as a young boy making assessments of others. He says, "Even allowing for the fact that the novel is written from the limited perspective of a fourteen-year-old boy (and at fourteen it is not possible to take anything seriously but oneself), the author must be held responsible for choosing to write from that point of view." ... Huck goes to Jim and asks him about his father, and whether he will stay. Jim consults his "hairball " and the reader may begin to expect that because magic hairballs are nonsensical, that Jim was about to also prov...

• Word Count: 1132
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Huck just knew instinctively what life was all about and wanted to live it as it came. ... Tom is a boy with a wild imagination who likes to pretend and play games of adventure like in his romantic novels. ... Tom is utterly interested in the adventure of the scheme, where as Huck is solely concerned about freeing Jim. ... When I start to steal a nigger...what I want is my nigger...and I don't give a dead rat what the authorities thinks about it nuther" (186). ... Tom, a refined boy of an upright culture acts as he's been taught from books and society. ...

• Word Count: 1134
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Huckleberry is a young boy who thoroughly enjoys adventure, freedom and excitement but yet seems to be longing for something else. ... Jim has run away from Miss Watson after hearing her talk about selling him to a plantation down the river, where he will be separated from his wife and children. ... Huck and Jim do not like the idea of the King and Duke invading their home, but are unable to do anything about it, since Huck is just a boy and Jim is a slave. ... At first, Huck was not sure about what to do with Jim. ...

• Word Count: 1146
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Jim, however got very angry at Huck that Huck tried to lie him about such a serious thing. ... Since Pap was not a caring father to Huck at all, Huck sees Jim as a person who actually cares about his family more than Pap. ... Grown up as a typical white boy, Huck never doubts the fact that Blacks should be slaves, serving for whites. ... Twain uses Huck as a tool to show the readers how a young white boy could not shed his racial prejudices easily due to the influence of society. ... (Twain 123) Huck feels guilty about not turning Jim in since Miss Watson was the one who tried to "sivilize" h...

• Word Count: 1186
• Approx Pages: 5