The Adventures of Huck FinnEssay title: The Adventures of Huck FinnWhat would you do if you knew one of your friends was in trouble? Would you save them or would you try to avoid the situation and let someone else deal with it? That is the exact problem that Huck Finn is faced with in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. It is a novel about the friendship between a young boy, named Huck and a black slave, named Jim. Throughout the plot Huck and Jim form a bond which proves that color should not stand as a barrier between the friendship of two people by completing endless adventures and always sticking together. The author, Mark Twain, grew up in one of the fifteen slave states and this clearly influenced his writing in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Growing up of the banks of the Mississippi River he experienced much racism and witnessed how cruel society could truly be (Merriman) and this affected him deeply. The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, supports the theme that friendship in found in unexpected places.
Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida . At age four, his family of nine moved to the banks of the Mississippi River in Hannibal , Missouri . His family was happy there but not all of his memories of the river were particularly pleasant. Because Missouri was one of the fifteen slave states it was subject to racism and Twain grew up witnessing lynchings, mobs, racism and general inhumane treatment of African Americans. One of Twain’s most horrible memories was “the murder of a defenseless slave by a ruthless slave master and of course, the grim sight of shackled slaves was itself a near-constant along the docks of the river” (Howard). The sightings at the river were not Twain’s only experience around African American slaves though as his own father and uncle both owned slaves. “When Twain visited his uncle’s farm, he enjoyed playing in the slave quarters and listening to their tall tales and spirituals, which he kept with him throughout his life” (
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written in the year 1885 (Merriman) when slavery was still acceptable in many states. The novel takes place on the Mississippi River where Mark Twain grew up, so the novel contains many influences from his childhood and the late 1800�s. The people and landmarks in Hannibal , Missouri served as the setting and characters in many of his stories, particularly The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The river was one good thing about Twains early years that never failed to uplift him and he based his most of his novels on his experiences in the South. The Civil War was in full force during the late 1800�s when the novel was written. Many Southern states were strong supporters of slavery and it was not looked down upon in the South. Many white families lived on plantations and owned African American slaves who helped them with their crops and housework. The slaves were often treated very cruelly. They were beaten by their owners and often tried to escape to the North, which often ended in death or a severe punishment. It was very uncommon though for a white person to be friendly with a black person. Blacks were looked at as workers and nothing more. They were not allowed to be educated in many places and they had little to no rights. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck befriends a black man named Jim who lives with him at Widow Douglas’s house. At first Huck is hesitant to help Jim in any way because he knows he can get in trouble for it but in the end their friendship proves to go much deeper than the color of their skin.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a story about an adventurous young boy named Huckleberry Finn. He lives on the Mississippi with a kind woman named Widow Douglas who decides to take care of him after he is abandoned by his alcoholic father. The Widow is convinced that she can civilize Huck but he is very resistant and often sneaks out during the night to have adventures with his friend Tom Sawyer. One night, while escaping the Widows house he sees her black slave, named Jim, sleeping under a large tree. Huck, being the crazy prankster he is, decides to play a joke on Jim by hiding his hat up in a tree. Little does he know that this will be the beginning of a great friendship between the two. Huck’s father suddenly returns to town and kidnaps Huck to have him come live with him in his desolate cabin on the other side of the river. Huck soon becomes tired of his
s. He learns of the witch’s plan of using the man she had met in the woods to lure him across the Mississippi and to make his mother, his mother’s younger sister, pay for the trip. Huck is a devoted and cheerful boy, but when his mother turns her on, Huck realizes he is too young to live with the witch and is forced to kill her. Huck soon learns that that his older brothers are still alive and to keep them safe, he leaves their place of origin at home, saving them from being sold as slaves to one of the witch’s servants. Huck, knowing the Witch’s intentions, is then able to break down one of the window panels that he finds at the old house and steal the hat to scare away her.
The only difference in this story at the end of the first season is Huck is given the power of the Spirit, so he has access to the powers they use to escape the war!
In the season finale Huck, along with several other family members try to be good people, but after an intense struggle, he is finally saved by his mother to tell her about the history of love and to explain why he feels the need to spend some of his time in his place of origin at all.
Huck discovers there are people among his family who are willing to learn about the origins of love. In an attempt to convince his new family that there is a world beyond the Mississippi, Huck has the family members of them decide to go for camping and hike.
However, in the end Huck decides to stay on the far side of the country because the people there are too afraid of the people on the far side to listen to him like one of the other people are in favor of him joining their cause. In any case, he manages to keep himself happy and does not let the people on the far side think he should leave the country and do anything he wants. It goes without saying, in the midst of his quest for love, Huck has his sister, his other sister, and Huck’s favorite band, The Ghostly Birds.
Huck soon finds himself doing various chores on his ranch. He can also get along with the other family members at home and in the living room. This is due to the fact that he’s a small boy, and in order to actually bring in more food and water to the farmhouse, he needs to find an extra place for his family to meet and he can start living there.
Huck finds that the farmhouse on the right side of his ranch has an open sewer and to avoid the sewer, he decides to use this for himself. Huck then goes into the sewer and finds the fish he had washed up on the river. He then eats the fish because that is what keeps it safe. Huck then spends a bunch of time cleaning up the fish to make sure that it keeps its place in the household like any other fish. This makes it easier on both of all Huck’s parents to help them out.
The next day Huck learns from his sister he’s in a situation where there are three guys looking for his friend who took Huck to the swamp town where he found a house that was all but empty. This has the effect of having something strange happen to Huck; Huckleberry tries to kill him by shooting him with her sword but it is futile to find the culprit and finds