Is Huck Finn A Success Or Failure

The novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, covers the situations and people Huckleberry Finn encounters after he runs away. Huck prevents his alcoholic father from getting his fortune and is able to run away after his father, Pap, kidnaps him and leaves town. It has many colorful characters that exhibit several facets of society at that time in history. It is anti-racist although it uses the word "nigger" frequently. Huck seems to struggle throughout the book with what he has been taught and what is morally right. His main and most consistent interaction is with Jim, a runaway slave. Although he had been taught differently throughout his entire life, he eventually makes the choice to go against what society deems to be right and be Jim's

Eventually, his father decides that he wants all of Huckleberry’s money so he kidnapped Huckleberry and sued the judge who was keeping the money safe for him. Fed up that his father kidnapped him Huckleberry cuts a hole in the cabin while his father is out getting supplies and escapes after setting up an elaborate murder scene. Later, he finds Jim, Miss Watson’s slave and they set out for the Ohio river. During this trip they find a houseboat with a dead person inside Jim refuses to show

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins with the boy, Huckleberry (Huck for short), telling a story in a very conversational tone. The story is a recap of Twain’s previous novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, in which Huck and Tom find a robber’s treasure of 12 thousand dollars, and invest it in the bank. Tom had apparently reached out to Huck again, asking him to join Tom’s very own band of robbers. Huck, of course, agreed, and moved back in with Widow Douglas, who cares for him, and makes sure he remains clean. Huck, however, is selfish, and dislikes being “civilized.” He accepts religious and social views the widow enforces upon him, yet decides for himself if he wants to follow them, and doesn’t tell her so as to not cause any unnecessary

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has to do with a boy that leaves his abusive father and ends up running from the law with a slave. A lot of problems show up but they are always there to help each other out. Huck goes into the King’s room to take his gold before the thieves take it. He then hides the money in a coffin. When he leaves Huck finds Mary Jane Wilks, the eldest of the girls, and sees that she is crying. He confesses the entire story to her. She is infuriated, but agrees to leave the house for a few days so Huck can escape. Later on in the story the gold is found and Huck gets in trouble. Huck runs straight back to the raft and he and Jim push off into the river. Their relationship grows more and more as the story goes on. They

Pap Finn, Huck's father, gives him a horrendous idea of what a family truly is. Huck grew up without truly understanding what a family should do for one another or how it feels to be a part of one. When Huck goes to the Widow Douglas's house and starts to live with her and Miss Watson, they treat Huck as if he were their own, and slowly, Huck starts to understand what a family really is and how it feels when you are a member of one. Huck also finds family with Jim, when they both are on Jackson's Island after running away. A father/son dynamic emerges between the two as they travel towards Cairo so Jim can be free. The dynamic becomes evident along the way during the many adventures the pair endures together. Jim begins to care for Huck in a paternal way. These feelings being extremely evident when the pair finds the floating house in the river and Jim covers the face of the murdered man with clothing. The murdered man is actually Pap Finn; Jim wanted to protect Huck from having to face the reality of his father's death (Twain 304). The satire comes from the way Huck feels about all of these people. Huck likes the Widow Douglas enough, but does not like how Miss Watson always lectures him. When it comes to Jim, Huck felt as if he was not supposed to like him, or rather had to make his life harder because of his skin color and his status as a slave. With Pap it was different, as Huck knew that his father

Then, Twain figuratively sinks these ideas as Huck and Jim escape the shipwreck. Also, in the ending section of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain satirizes romantic literature by using Tom Sawyer as a representation of romantic ideals. Jim is stored in a shed after being sold by the King while Huck and Tom decide to rescue him. Tom insists on rescuing Jim “the right way”, or by reenacting what he has read in romantic novels such as the Count of Monte Cristo. While Huck and Jim disagree with the ridiculousness of each of Tom’s demands, they follow them no matter what robbery, cruelty or lying they must do to achieve each of Tom’s tasks.

In Huckleberry Finn, Huck comes from the lower levels of white society, having a father who is a drunk who disappears constantly. Widow Douglas adopts him and attempts to reform him, although she has difficulties. Huck does not accept the ways of society, and often tells Widow that he would rather go live in hell for a change of scenery. The Widow tries to teach him how to read and tries to make him religious. Although the Widow’s efforts do finally teach

He used to lay drunk with the hogs in the tanyard, but he hain’t been seen in these parts for a year or more.” But the widow still cared about him, “the widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb..” He faked his own death and took off, Huck could have just went back to the widow but he doesn’t like it there either because he didn’t like the rules like you can’t eat unless you said a prayer and you had to be on time. “The widow rung a bell, and you had to come to time. When you got to the table you couldn’t go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble” He wants to be free of rules and the so he ran away to the Jacksons Island and he was there on his own for a while until Jim showed up. Huck wants to be free from the civilized world and rules, he wants to be on his own. And honestly with Jim and him together they could make it, they made it this far by using their wits and lying a little. And in the end they formed a strong

If Huck was at home, he would be subject to his father’s abuse, but the raft creates freedom for Huck to do as he pleases while protecting him from the society he lives in. Furthermore, on the raft, Huck and Jim have to talk and develop a friendship. Huck learns to love Jim and exclaims, “poor Jim” when he the king sold Jim into slavery (Twain 196). While on the raft, Huck and Jim develop a friendship learn to love each other. The raft provides a way to create a safe place for Jim and Huck to do become friends and protects them from the American society and standards of a white male and a black male being friends. Huck and Jim are free to become friends without critics all because of the raft. When off the raft, Huck faces difficulties. The first incident of Huck getting off the raft is to look at a wrecked steamship. Huck gets off the raft, goes on the boat, and looks around. When realizing the boat has a gang threatening murder, he tries to leave, but he gets “shut up on a wreck with such a gang” (Twain 66). He is stuck on the boat with thieves threatening murder and has no way to transportation. After searching, Huck finds the raft and escapes the boat. When Huck is off the raft, Huck sees the

Although not a slave owner, he was not opposed to the institution of slavery. Huck gets thrown on Jackson Island with Jim, an escaped slave. As they travel down the Mississippi River together, they develop a deep friendship and Jim becomes the closest thing Huck has to family. He begins to see Jim, not just as a dumb black slave, but as a complex individual with feelings and aspirations, similar to him, as a white boy. But despite his growing relationship, Huck believes he has an obligation to return Jim to his owner, Miss Watson. Based on society’s standards Jim is missing property that must be returned. Huck believes he will be damned to Hell for breaking the law of the land. To do what he deems to be the morally correct thing, Huck writes a letter to Miss Watson informing her of Jim’s

The five essential parts of a plot are the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. In this story the exposition consisted of the narrator telling us a little info about his previous book and how Huck had accumulated 6,000 dollars. Also it told us about how the Widow Douglas was trying to civilize Huckleberry. As well, it enlightened us on the fact that Tom Sawyer had a gang and that Huckleberry was a part of it. This gang contained Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Ben Rodgers, Jo Harper, and 2 or 3 other boys. The rising action in this story had many interesting and exhilarative events take place. First, Pap, Huck’s father, had heard that Huck had inherited 6,000 dollars, and he decided that since he was his father he was entitled to that money. So when he arrived there, the Judge said that he could not obtain the substantial amount of money. With this abrasive information, Pap decided that he would abduct Huck, and hide him in a cabin from the rest of the town. The second event is when Huck faked his death and

Huck lands a few miles down at Jackson's Island, and there he stumbles across Miss Watson's slave, Jim. Huck and Jim soon learn that men are coming to search Jackson's Island, so they go on a raft and go down the river. Jim's plans on going to Illinois so he can reach the Ohio River and become free .Despite Huck's reluctance Huck continues the journey. Huck's struggle with the concept of slavery and Jim's freedom continues throughout the novel. During their travels they get into many fights not being able to feel truly free. The only time that Huck and Jim feel that they are truly free is when they are aboard the raft until a duke and king who control the raft and force Huck and Jim to stop at various river towns in order to performs cams on the people who dwell there. The scams are harmless until the duke and the king pose as English brothers and plot to steal a family's entire inheritance. Before the duke and the king can complete their plan, the real brothers arrive, causing Jim Huck and the duke and king to

The story is narrated by Huckleberry Finn, who quickly states that we may know him from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He explains that in this book he and Tom found $12,000 dollars, that has been split up for both of them. He states that they handed it off to Judge Thatcher, where they earn interest from. Widow Douglas has adopted Huckleberry, and allowed him to live in her house, where she tries to make him a more mannered boy. He gets bored and tired of this, so he runs away with his rags and belongings. But he gets told off by Tom, who convinces Huckleberry to go back and be respectful to Widow. Widow is delighted that he is back, she then

Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua accurately asserts that in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses chapters one through sixteen to establish Huck and Jim as characters and to develop their relationship. To begin, Twain portrays youthful Huck as a remarkably developed, multifaceted character. Huck Finn is very independent, and likes to have control of his own life. Taking matters into his own hands, “I judged I’d hide her good, and then, ‘stead of taking to the woods when I run off, I’d go down the river” (27). Huck is also delineated to be very inteligent, taking into account his age and situation. His first plan to help save Jim was, “If the men went to the island I just expect they found the camp fire I built, and watched it all

No one makes him to go to school, and his is happy with that. Constant freedom at everything – most important for Finn. “He never had to wash, nor put on clean clothes; he could swear wonderfully. In a word, everything that goes to make life precious that boy had.” – concludes author. Huck loves the games that Tom makes up, unless they are affect his freedom. . In gratitude for saving from the Injun Joe Widow Douglas adopts Huck. However, after getting rich and living in good, he loses his beloved feeling of freedom. He had to eat using knife and fork, to go to the church. Obviously, he could not endure this for long and few weeks later he run away. After few weeks, Huck ran away from widow’s house. Only with the help of Tom, widow finds Huck, however Huckleberry rans away again, and even mystifies his own death. He sits down in the canoe and drifts the Mississippi river. During this journey Huck also experiences a lot of adventures, shows resourcefulness and ingenuity, but not out of boredom and desire to have fun, as before, but because of the vital need, first and foremost for the sake of runaway nigger