The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 did not fundamentally solve the majority of Northerners deeply, they refused to be responsible for catching escaped slaves, and even helped them to escape or provided shelter for them, By that time The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published, Mark Twain showed his opinion about slavery in children's eyes. ... Huck at first believes that the blacks are much lower than whites and regards them as inferior animals, the conversation between him and Aunt Sally after the explosion in the river is a good example. ... At first, he can not see J...

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It's a story of a young outcast named Huck, seeking adventure, and a runaway slave named Jim, seeking freedom, both on a raft, floating down the Mississippi river. ... But when Huck and Jim's raft gets hit by a steam boat and separated at the place where the river forks, splitting off into the Ohio river, the story goes a different direction. Mark Twain himself was a river boat captain on the Mississippi river, but never traveled past that fork in the Mississippi, which could possibly be the reason the book took it's fateful turn. ... One theme in the novel is that the...

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Pap eventually kidnaps Huck and takes him to his cabin across the river. ... 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 find a raft, and start heading down the Mississippi river. At this point, The raft and the river are Huck's home, and Jim is his family. ... Throughout the novel, Huck's true family and home is Jim and the river. ...

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Huck realizes that Jim is just as human as he is, a loving father who misses his children, a warm, sensitive, generous, compassionate individual. ... When Huck and Tom are playing down at the river, it reminded me of my childhood, in the sense that I always wanted to be someone I wasn't, in their case, wanting to be robbers. ...

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Drunks shouldn't be forgiven and allowed to take care of children. ... It wasn't until Huck had a chance to listen to Jim's struggle of missing his wife and children that he understood black people also feel loss and loneliness. ... The lies flowed from his mouth like the Mississippi River they were following towards freedom. ...

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A Look on American Classics As Huck Finn travels down the Mississippi River, he stumbles upon some people that are new to him. ... Arthur Radley saved the children but "I walked him home like a gentleman" (270) and the outer shell of a human's appearance is almost always deceiving, you must sincerely know the person's true intentions. ... Ewell can, "spend his relief check on green whiskey, [while] his children have a way of crying of hunger pains." (31) How a man can spend money starving his children is beyond me. ... Cunningham, "pay with potatoes." (18) The whole c...

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While traveling down the Mississippi River, Huck believes he is committing a sin by going against society and protecting Jim. ... This shows that Tom and the others are under such an influence from society that they would take a band of children and try to turn it into a gang of robbers and murderers. ...

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Huck tells the reader this when he realizes that Jim misses his own family and children, "I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their"n" (150). ... "I come to being lost and going to hell and got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him how good he always was I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he's got now I [will] steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that...

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