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HUCK FINN

Tim Lively Critical Analysis: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Setting: Late
1800뭩 along the Mississippi River Plot: When the book begins, the main character,
Huck Finn possesses a large sum of money. This causes his delinquent lifestyle to change
drastically. Huck gets an education, and a home to live in with a caring elderly woman
(the widow). One would think that Huck would be satisfied. Well, he wasn뭪. He
wanted his own lifestyle back. Huck뭩 drunkard father (pap), who had previously
left him, was also not pleased with Huck뭩 lifestyle. He didn뭪 feel that his
son should have it better than he. Pap tries to get a hold of the money for his own uses,
but he fails. He proceeds to lock Huck up in his cabin on the outskirts of town. Huck
then stages his kidnapping and subsequent killing, and takes a canoe across to
Jackson뭩 Island in the Mississippi River. There he comes across a runaway slave,
Jim, and the two decide to leave the area. Huck leaves to avoid his father, and Jim
leaves to escape a false charge of murder. The rest of the story follows all of their
exciting and action packed adventures down the Mississippi River. Themes Slavery is a big
theme in this story. Mark Twain was obviously against slavery because it is hypocritical.
Throughout the book we see Huck interacting with Jim as human to human, while everyone
else treats him like a piece of property. He was especially against the Christians who
promoted slavery, since it is obviously wrong and against Christian ideals. Twain also
shows the hypocrisy in another theme, religion. In one scene, the Shepardsons and the
Gangerfords are listening to a sermon about brotherly love, and in the next scene they
are shooting and killing each other. This is exactly the kind of behavior that twain
didn뭪 like. However, the main theme in this book is breaking free. He urges his
readers to do the right thing, not necessarily what everyone else is doing. He
illustrates this ideal with Huck. Most everyone else thought of Jim, along with blacks in
general, as something less than human. Huck knew this was wrong, and his actions followed
this when he rescued Jim. Main characters Huckleberry Finn Huck is the narrator of the
story and for the most part is honest to us, the readers. He dreads the rules and
conformities of society such as religion, school, and everything else that will
eventually make him civilized. A big debate surrounds Huck on whether he changes or not
throughout the story. Huck, in the beginning, seems very set in the south뭩
anti-black ways, however, Huck states that he will go to hell to keep Jim out of slavery.
At this point it seems like he does change, but at the end of the book, Huck plays yet
another joke on Jim and seems as though any change was temporary. Huck has little sense
of humor, which is ironical, considering the book is satirical. Twain has also been
criticized about Huck뭩 character, in that it seems as though Huck knows too much
for his age. In one of the movies Huck was about seventeen, in another he was about
eight. I figure from the book that Huck is probably around the age of twelve or thirteen.
Other traits of Huck show that he is sensible, trustworthy, tricky, deceiving, realist,
yet imaginative. Jim Jim starts off the book as the Widow Watson뭩 slave, however,
because she is going to sell Jim off he decides to run away. In an ironic twist, Jim
meets Huck Finn, who Jim is charged with murdering. Twain has been criticized for making
Jim too stereotypical in the sense that he is easily tricked by Tom and Huck. Jim is
extremely superstitious, dependable, very trusting of Huck, strong and hopeful. My
Analysis In my opinion this is probably one of the best books ever written. The way that
Mark Twain uses almost all of the literary elements in this novel make it one of the most
fun to read. His use of satire makes this a very comical look of the south. His use of
surprise contributes to the action of the story. Used along with suspense, it makes the
book read very fast. The way Twain writes most of his novels is very fun and
lighthearted, however some of them are very serious. This novel is written with certain
flair and attitude that, I think, make it stick out as an incredible book. Some other
people feel that the book is not well written at all and needs to be rewritten by someone
else. They also think that Twain doesn뭪 use very many literary techniques when he
writes. These people need to realize that when they read a novel, that overwhelming
sensation to keep reading to see what happens next is suspense. When something happens
that you thought wouldn뭪, that is surprise. All in all, this novel has been one of
the best I have ever read, and I know I will end up reading it again because it is so
good. -
Bibliography
The End Works Cited page 밚iterary techniques of Mark Twain?15 pars. 21 Jan. 1998
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