Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

Huck has a grim attitude toward people he disagrees with or doesn't get along with. Huck tends to alienate himself from those people. He doesn't let it bother him. Unlike most people Huck doesn't try to make his point. When Huck has a certain outlook on things he keep his view. He will not change it for anyone. For instance in Chapter Three when Miss Watson tells Huck that if he prayed he would get everything he wished for. “Huck just shook his head yes and walked away telling Tom that it doesn't work because he has tried it before with fishing line and fishing hooks.” This tells us that Huck is an independent person who doesn't need to rely on

Huck's father's appearance shows that he has no job and is obviously a drunk. He doesn't seem to be taking care of himself very well and is just a complete mess. His face and his clothes are both a complete disaster. He is basically a loser and useless.

We also have a lot more differences. First I am going to compare my parents and Huck’s parents. I have two parents whereas Huck only has one parent, his dad. My parents care a lot about me.

Huck and Tom have one of the same qualities about them, they both are mischievous. Although they have one of the same traits they are so different from each other. Huck is reasonable where Tom is very imaginative. Tom always has his nose in a book but Huck runs away to the river or woods when he needs to escape. Huck wishes he could have a life as good as Toms because from his prospective his life looks like it is all together.

That led to locking him up in the forest and Huck eventually escaped. This negative influence put the wrong ideas into Huck’s life that he thought were

Huck is a free spirit who finds socially acceptable actions to be restrictive and unbearable. This is demonstrated after Huck and his best friend Tom Sawyer find a large amount of money. The Widow Douglas adopts Huck. With Widow Douglas, Huck feels as though society's values and norms

The book teaches us that huck is just a kid influenced by racism trying to get his slave friend out of the south

As a result, Huck is straightforwardly allowed to be “uncivilized” and independent. Despite being adopted by the kind Widow Douglas and received schooling and religious training that Huck had missed, he still thinks that they do not work with him. He would rather discover the world outside rather than be tied in one place, which is an aspect of self-reliance – the ability to search for himself. Even when he is taken away and hit by his Pap, he does not shout for help but wisely find the gun to shield him from his father’s stick.

This is the turning point in Huck’s character. He outrightly goes against the ingrained racial standards and bases his decision on his own beliefs. This shows significant maturation in Huck from the

Throughout all these situations that Huck goes through, Jim has supported him, even when Jim was not with Huck at every time. Jim first met up with Huck on the island. Jim escaped Widow Douglas’s home because he was to be sold down south, which would separate Jim from his family forever. Jim is hands down the most important person to Huck throughout the novel, putting himself in a category as one of Huck’s new family members. Jim has been associated as Huck’s father figure. During their time together, Jim and Huck make up a sort of alternative family in an alternative place, apart from society. Huck escaped from society for adventure and a new life, while Jim has escaped from society so that he wouldn’t be separated from his family by being sold down south. Jim is based off of his love, whether it’s for his family or his growing love for Huck. Jim was thought of by Huck as a stupid, ignorant slave in the beginning of the novel, but as Huck spends more time with Jim, Huck realizes that Jim has a different kind of knowledge based off of his years as well as his experiences with love. In the incidents of the floating house and Jim’s snakebite, Jim uses his knowledge to benefit both of them but also seeks to protect Huck. Jim is less imprisoned by conventional wisdom than Huck,

Huck is introduced by Twain as “idle and lawless and vulgar—and bad,” (Twain 42), which mothers around the town hate and have banned children from talking to him. As the story develops, Huck is not the idle and lawless child St. Petersburg has made him out to be, but he turns to be a daring and mature boy who accompanies Tom in his mischief and “I didn’t thinks.” Twain then further tells about Huck’s lifestyle by stating that, “Huckleberry came and went, at his free will. He slept on doorsteps in fine weather and in empty hogsheads in wet; he did

Huck was taught by the world that slavery was right. It was the way of life and the way it was supposed to be. "All right, then, I'll go to hell." (206) Even though he thought this way he still knew the kind of man Jim was and disregarded what he knew to be right and wrong to save Jim

realizes the affection Jim has for Huck. Jim had numerous opportunities to leave Huck behind in

a big part in the story is abuse. Huck’s father continuously harassed Huck when they were around each other. Huck’s father also abandoned Huck.

In the book after awhile they meet and they become friends, once the reader finds out more about Huck we find that he isn't a bad person at all. Both