The Adventures of Huck Finn is a novel based on the adventures of a boy named Huck Finn, who along with a slave, Jim, make their way along the Mississippi River during the Nineteenth Century. ... An example of this is in The Wizard of Oz, when the movie goes from black and white to color, showing a visual symbolic death. ... The novel shows his dilemma through the glass motif, the reoccurring presence of glass, glass being the symbol through which one stops watching through and experiences. ... Children have an innocent perception of the world around them, but as adults we realize t...

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• Grade Level: High School

Huck and Jim have a friendship, which is transformed through time and trust, but always has the reminder that one is white and the other is black. ... Huck is a strong-willed, free-spirited individual who attempts to portray himself as a bad boy, but he often finds himself doing just the opposite. ... The raft that they travel on becomes a symbol of brotherhood and equality. ... As a result, Huck feels bad and apologizes to Jim, which shows that Huck now has respect for him, even though he is black. ... Though he doesn't make it clear this truth to himself, he essentially trades his f...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... During this incident, readers are introduced to Buck, a symbol of an adolescent mind destroyed by adult "wisdom." ... 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 ...

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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. ... His over exaggerated fantasies serve as a symbol of him not conforming to society. ...

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