The narrator is a thirteen year old boy. ... He opens by saying "You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter."" ... In a society where whites still believed that they were superior to blacks, Huck's speech was seen to be offensive. ... Twain writes of a beautiful relationship that occurred between a white boy and a black escaped slave. ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is not about racism at all, but the different elements of human relationships and interactions with one another. ...

• Word Count: 1318
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This is the idea that Mark Twain, famous American author, expresses in his novel through the voice of a young boy named Huckleberry Finn. ... "I hain't heard nothing but about you bein' rich. I heard about it away down the river, too. ... However, while trying to become a hero, Tom forgot about Jim and didn't pay much attention to the fact that he was risking Jim's life. ... Huck, a low class white boy who has been told to be cruel to blacks since he was little and someone constantly surrounded by people who are greedy for money of power, learning how cruel society can...

• Word Count: 1299
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This book is a great literary masterpiece the book is mainly about huck an his new friend Jim a run-away slave owned by the widow Douglas who took in huck to civilize him. ... Huck is a thirteen-year-old boy whose father is the town dunk of ST, Petersburg, Missouri. He is also a clever a street smarts boy even though he has not been in school he can take care of himself and others. ... By doing this huck refuses to pay any attention to anything that he was taught about slaves. ... Huck sacrifices himself for a black friend he has come to love as an Equal. ...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, a young troubled boy goes on an adventure with a runaway slave. The name of this boy is Huckleberry, who is usually just referred to as Huck, and the runaway slave whose name is Jim. ... She says that she will not tell anyone about Huck's visit. ... Back in Huck's time most religious people would have thought that black people were made as a lesser race. ... They went along with slavery so easily because they would have thought that God made blacks like that so it is alright to go with it. ...

• Word Count: 1750
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

As Huck and Jim float down the river in their journey for freedom, each of their adventures shows us a little more about how Mark Twain felt about the South, and it's views on slavery, brotherhood, and society as a whole. ... We are shown that every male in the family is shouldering a rifle, including the youngest boy, around the age of thirteen. ... Kuhne goes on to say, "He wrote essays about atrocities committed against black, attacked plantation- and slave-owners, in Life on the Mississippi, and made slavery Pudd"nhead Wilson's "constant theme", picturing the hopelessness of so...

• Word Count: 1495
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The women do all they can to bring Huck up to be a decent boy with manners, etiquette; they also send him to school and to church. ... He gains custody of the boy but luckily Huck gave away his money so his father can't steal it. ... She also hears about how Jim was faithful to Tom that she decides to fix him up real well and let him go free. ... *Being Loyal to Friends A good lesson everyone can learn about from Jim. ... Any other black american would have chose to run and get far away from the plantation but Jim chose to stay. ...

• Word Count: 1644
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Locked in a cabin in the woods, Huck has plenty of time to think about the direction in which his life is going. ... Huck's journey of "outside discovery" continues in the episode with the Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords, an event which opens the young boy's eyes to the problems of blindly following tradition, and holding grudges. ... The realization that Buck never even had a chance at independent thought makes Huck cry, and he cannot even look at the boy, who was not given the opportunity to break away from the artificial control, which held him back. ... The paradox created b...

• Word Count: 1593
• Approx Pages: 6

Watson about Jim's whereabouts and assist him to remain a free man. ... Jim was hurt by Huck and calls him trash, the exact turning point of Huck's morality; he even had the decency to apologize, showing acceptance to a black man. ... Is your man white or black?" ... "Keep away, boy "keep to looard. ... And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming. ...

• Word Count: 1388
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Of course, most critics will agree, his most controversial novel would unanimously be Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; a story about a run away boy and his run away slave and their journey down the Mississippi River to freedom. ... In the story, Huck is considered an uneducated "backwards" boy, who is always pressured to conform to the society around him. ... He is trying to show that the blacks, even in their freedom, are still suffering. ... But how can one write a book about a horrifying event, and leave out the main part? ... Twain had his own ides about the times he lived in. ...

• Word Count: 2082
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Taking the theme of society's unfairness and analyzing it, it can be seen that through The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain shows the cruelty and injustice of society by the way of a young boy, Huck Finn. ... Since Jim was just considered a piece of property , Miss Watson could do as she pleased, and if that was selling him so be it, because a society where white and black men alike are treated equally would be barbaric and uncivilized. ... The next time Jim is about to be sold, it's by the previously mentioned dynamic duo of the Duke and Dauphin. ...

• Word Count: 1348
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Huck lives with the widow Douglas and expresses his feelings about primary experiences with her. ... Understandably so (given the time period on the novel), Jim also feels inferior to Huck, given that he is a white boy and Jim is a black man. ... Because Nick is so honest and morally correct, it creates a beautiful mood for the novel, keeping the reader informed about every situation going on from a different perspective than of those primarily involved. ... Because of his honesty, many things are uncovered about each affair, creating a more eccentric mood for the reader. ... Mitty constantl...

• Word Count: 2204
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography