Laws of the River There are many people who influence our lives and what we believe. ... Huck struggles with the concept of right and wrong through out the story because of his friendship with Jim and what he learns on the river. ... Huck is slowly casting away of the laws of society for those of the river. ... Darkness sets in and he "never went near the house, but stuck through the woods and made for the swamp" (138). ... The pivotal point in Huck and Jim's relationship unfolds as Huck struggles over whether or not to write a letter to Ms. ...

• Word Count: 1375
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Huck is forced to live with his father in a shack in the woods. ... While Huck is hiding in the woods during the day, he finds a camp out and thinks it's a bunch of robbers. ... The duke and dauphin plan to steel Peter Wilk's gold and all his money and just take off with it, when Huck over hears their plans. ... Through Tom's crazy tactics the night they planned to escape with Jim a bunch of town's men came with their guns. ... Jim is put back in captivity while Tom's aunt goes crazy over Tom's gunshot wound. ...

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

Huck has an innate ability to mold his own perception of reality, and the perceptions of the people around him through lies and deceit. ... They must obediently follow the flow of the river of reality, as they have no control over the stimuli around them. Jim, Huck's black companion on the Mississippi River, is of this category. ... He states in his Why I Went to the Woods that he went into the woods to avoid the over complicated manner of life in society, "to front only the essential facts of life.... While others allow themselves to be washed over with stimuli, Thoreau actively esc...

• Word Count: 1075
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

When Jim wakes up in the woods, he is convinced that witches enchanted him and "rode him all over the State;" however, as Jim continues to tell the story to more people, he exaggerates it to build it up in impressiveness and thus build his own importance (Twain 19). ... In Huck's case, life on the river forced him to lie for survival. ... Huck goes through elaborate plans, including "pulling out some of his hair" and "bloodied the axe good" (Twain 45). ... His first identity change is to Sarah Mary Williams were Huck attempts to discover information about life on the Mississippi River,...

• Word Count: 1838
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

By highlighting a few different scenes, the many facets of Huck's personality will begin to shine through. This, in turn, will help to explain to readers the adolescent's struggle with the transition from boyhood to manhood, including the process by which he matures, learning through his own experience, and not being influenced by his elders. ... Locked in a cabin in the woods, Huck has plenty of time to think about the direction in which his life is going. ... By staging his own murder, in the cabin, Huck becomes, figuratively, dead to society and its reign over him. ... For example...

• Word Count: 1593
• Approx Pages: 6