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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

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