Usually in novels, there are symbol that represents something. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is the story about Huckleberry who runs away and travels around with Jim. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, there is the river represents to me such as freedom, mature of Huckleberry Finn, and a connection with Jim and Huckleberry, .
First, the river represents freedom. Huck does not like follow any rules and he does not like he is interfere from someone. He likes uncivilized way better. When Huck's father kidnaps Huck to the woods, Huck wants to escape from his father. He decides to run away from his father one day, so he makes a plan to escape. He set up all that people think he kills by someone. He uses a canoe for escape. He finally runs away form his father, go into the river. He wants to be free. When he gets out the woods, and he floats downstream to Jackson's Island. Now he actually be free. Jim who is Miss Watson's slave, he wants to escape after he overhearing that she wants to sell him to traders from down south. Jim also escapes to the river as Huck. Both Huck and Jim use the river as their a place of refuge. In this novel, every time when they have to escape from something they uses the river. When King and Duke makes a comedy, and they are trying to trick with town people so they can easily earn money. The town people are angry to them, Duke, King, Huck, and Jim run away form the town. They run to the river and float again. Also, Tom and Huck make plan that make Jim to be free. They do a lot of stuff, such as write massages in blood, get spiders, snakes, and flowers, and they send a warning letters. When they make a plan, the plan was very complicates. But when they escape, they only use the river, nothing else. The river represents as freedom.
Second , the river represents mature of Huckleberry. Before his travels, he is a very young boy and he is just an immature boy with a superficial view of everything.
Huck is unable to grasp Miss Watson's religion. ... Huck tests the theory and is let down. ... Huck is morally against the King and Dukes" plan. ... As Huck continues on his journey, Jim has become a companion in Huck's eyes. ... After Jim is captured and taken away from Huck, Huck will face the greatest challenge he has ever faced. ...
He makes sure that Huck does not progress in his schooling by locking him up in their cabin, making him the only one for Huck to depend on. Huck and his father's relationship shows the opposite of what most father-son relationships are, most fathers want the best life possible for their sons, not Huck's father. ... While at the Widow's Huck learned not to curse and to enjoy school but once his father got a hold of him, Huck once again cursed and did not go to school. Huck then realized he did not want to be like his father and decided to leave. ... With his preparations, Huck...
Miss Watson and Widow Douglass try to "sivilize" Huck, but Huck feels constrained by civilization. ... Huck eventually locates the raft and wakes Jim up. Jim is extremely happy to see that Huck is safe. ... Something seems to be bothering Huck. ... Huck has to choose between right and wrong. ...
Huck's strength demonstrates that he is a moral model. ... Both Huck and Jim weather the adversarial conditions. ... Throughout Huck's journey, there are many characters who cross Huck's path. ... Their presence in Huck's journey helps Huck to see what he doesn't want to become. ... In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck overcomes his past and becomes a moral model, in essence, a transformed Huck. ...
Importantly the journey worked to develop Huck morally. ... Jim and Huck are trapped in the same predicament. ... Both Huck and Jim were treated as property. ... Both Huck and Jim are on a quest for freedom. ... It is important for Huck to have this example. ...
Huck is on the run from his abusive father and later into the story, we learn Huck is in search of a more "natural" freedom from the mainstream rules of society-he is forever questioning. Opinion: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a coming of age story for Huck. ... Huck questions Miss Watson of manners and prayer 2.) ... Miss Watson tells Huck that if he does not behave, he will go to "the bad place". ... Huck's thinking is that he has someone's property and therefore, is stealing, and by not turning Jim in, Huck is being a bad person and might go to the "bad place" ...
Fortunately, Huck is later assisted by the guidance of Jim, a runaway slave who joins him on his journey and helps Huck gain his own sense of morality. ... At this moment, Huck is at the peak of his immorality. ... When Jim and Huck take the skiff for themselves, leaving the three robbers stranded, Huck realizes that he has left them to die. ... Huck's decision on this matter marks another major step in Huck's moral progression, because he decides not to turn in Jim on his own. ... To encapsulate Huck's total moral progression through his decision to help Jim, Huck states, "I"ll...
To show that Huck has a moral conscience Mark Twain has Huck Finn admit that he is lying. ... Jim tells Huck the truth about what happened and Huck blatantly lies to Jim. ... After Jim complies with Huck's explanation of the fog, Huck starts to feel remorse for lying to Jim. ... After Huck and Jim stole the boat, Huck pondered what he had just done. ... Once again Mark Twain shows the morality of Huck. ...
Jim quite naturally perceives Huck to be a ghost. ... In fact, as Huck says, "I was ever so glad to see Jim. ... And he shows himself to be not only human but humane in his compassion for and protection of Huck; for example, when Jim spots a dead body he recognizes as Huck's father, he quickly covers the corpse so Huck will not see. ... And the second is that Jim considers Huck a friend. ... Clearly Jim feels that he is Huck's equal here. ...
