Importance of Creativity in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
What would you do if you were a young teenager traveling down the
Mississippi River, not knowing where to sleep that night or find food for
your next meal? That is the dilemma faced by Huckleberry Finn, and Huck
always found a lot of trouble. When most people are in trouble they either
take the easy way out and lie, or they use their creativity and wit. The
protagonist of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, uses more
wit than most fourteen year old kids use in their lifetime. Whenever life
hits Huck with a problem, he always conquers it by using awareness,
cleverness, and insight.
Before Huck starts his adventure down the river, he must fake his
death to "escape" from pap. The first thing Huck did was to make sure that
pap was far away before starting his getaway. At this point, many children
of Huck's age would merely get in a canoe and head down stream, most likely
getting caught the next day. Huckleberry Finn is smarter than that. Huck
wanted to make sure that no one would come down the river looking for him,
except to make his corpse rise. First, he collected all the supplies that
he could find and loaded them into a canoe. After that, he went into the
woods and caught a wild hog. He brought the hog in the Cabin, and
slaughtered it, making sure that it left behind a pool of blood on the hard
packed dirt ground. He disposed of the dead hog by throwing it in the
river to float downstream. Huck also opened a sack of corn and left a
trail leading to a shallow lake nearby. Before leaving the cabin, he
filled another sack with rocks, and made a path toward the river. This was
done to simulate the trail of the robbers dragging their bounty to the
river bank. Huckleberry hoped that pap would think he was killed by a
group of robbers that stole all his possessions. After using these tactics
to avert any search parties, he floated down the river to Jackson Island.
Huck made every attempt to make sure that he could sail down the river in
Huck’s situation is so extreme (the mental and physical abuse from Pap) that he cannot take it anymore. He does what he thinks is best; Huck listens to heart rather than his conscience. In order to get away from Pap, Huck organizes an elaborate plan to arrange his own death and run away – both denounced by society - from the prison cell (cabin) and Pap. Huck, for the first time in his life, had felt what it is like to be free: “The sky looks ever so deep when you lay down on your back in the moonshine; I never knowed it before” (Twain 46).
Huckleberry Finn: A Father Figure &nb Mark Twain, the author of Huckleberry Finn, has written a story that all will enjoy. Huck is a young boy with not much love in his life, his mother died when he was very young, and he had drunk for a father. Huck lives with the widow and she tried to raise him right. While at the widow's, Huck went to school and learned to read and write. The widow also tried to civilize him.
He leaves his strict and hostile home and ventures into society to choose what he wants to believe and what rules he wants to follow. In this process, he goes from being very childish and blithe to maturing into a wise and caring young man. Huck starts thinking before acting and putting others feelings before his own. He learns who he truly is, as people in the today’s society often do. When we are born, our parents instill their personal beliefs into our minds, and we do not learn to think for ourselves until we leave home. This is exactly how Huck Finn finds himself in the novel. His journey of finding himself as he travels down the river represents our journey of finding ourselves throughout
Huck embarks on his journey within the novel due to innocently feeling a need to be liberated from his situation. At the beginning of the novel, Huck has the naive view of not wanting to be “sivilize[d]” (1). As Huck is raised by Widow Douglass and Miss Watson, he eventually is told “why
Throughout his journey, Huck finds different ways of separating himself from society while being a part of it. He sees how quickly life changes and how lifestyles can affect a person. Further set apart by his views, Huck forsakes traditional beliefs for superstition and the balance of luck. Through his journey along the Mississippi River, Huck also understands how much intelligence changes. Feeling no affinity for any aspect of mainstream society he experiences, Huck willingly spurns what he knows as humanity for the society that suits him. At the close of his journey when Aunt Sally makes plans to “adopt [Huck] and sivilize [Huck],” Huck informs the reader that he has no desire to join high society—“[he] been there before” (220).
As for their journey to freedom, it may be a while until Huck literally becomes free of his family and his town, but mentally he is extremely independent and is able to take care of himself without relying on the people around him for help. However, that doesn’t mean he won’t help a good friend in need. “Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.”
To escape his father's clutches ,Huck put on a sham only to fake his own death and embark on an incredible adventure with his slave friend Jim.
Coffee, one of the world’s most known beverages. Seen being drinking at work places, colleges, or in the convenience of your own home. There are a variety of companies that provide us the people with coffee. It can be your local market, bakeries, or even fast food places. 3 places that stand out and our known very well for supplying Americans with coffee is Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, and McDonald’s. From their strategic advertising, deals, and even straight down to the design of their cups, they meet the definition of marketing. We will be examining these 3 companies using the marketing mix which consist of product, price, place, promotion and also cover value based marketing and see how these companies meet these definitions and how they satisfy their customers as well.
...he width of the river and its magnitude. Huckleberry holds nature in its own realm and regards it when he needs to. He is a nature-man and does things that other people wouldn’t understand. “We was always naked, day and night… and besides I didn’t go much on clothes nohow.” (Twain 118). Huck decides to live his life like a true homeless man and enjoys it because he is living amongst the natural world. Huck values the wilderness so much that he would go out of his way make the experience “right.”
The little fact that Huck forgot is that snakes mates go find their dead mate. “I struck a light, the snake’s mate was there, and bit him,” (Twain 53). Although this is a slight mess up, even heroes have to learn from their mistakes. But to be an archetypal hero you can’t just be good at one thing. Not only is Huck an archetypal hero, he is a crafty hero. Huck knows his way around nature, and when he wants to know what is going on, he figures out a way to do it. Huck and Jim both wonder what is going on, but neither of them can go into town without being recognized. Huck and Jim however, with their crafty selves, look around at what they have and wonder if they couldn’t get Huck dressed up like a girl. “I said I reckoned I would slip over the river and find out what was going on…. Couldn’t I put on some of them old things and dress up like a girl?,” (Twain 54). So Huck goes back into town, and gets taken in by Judith Loftus and gets caught up on what he and Jim have missed. Ironically, the lady talks to Huck about Huck’s death, and how people believe it was Huck’s father that did it. Now Huck’s father, Pap, has a bounty on him, and so does Jim. However, it is not much longer after Huck is
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