Huckleberry Finn Analysis

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by, Mark Twain, is a book about Huckleberry Finn, but he prefers, Huck. Huck is a child who did not have someone to call his own mother, and he could barely even call his drunken and abusive father his own dad. He cannot handle the stress and hardships he must deal with at home on a day to day basis, and he later decides it would be a good decision to pack up the little belongings that he had, and run off from home. In result to his running away, Huck Finn will encounter many different people and opportunities on the way, hence the name Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. One of the many people who he will encounter is another person who he considers is running away, but this person isn’t running away from an

“Miss Watson would say, “Don’t put your feet up there, Huckleberry-set up straight”; and pretty soon she would say, “Don 't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry; why don 't you try to behave?” (Twain 2). Miss Watson was constantly pecking and nagging towards Huck to do something, and eventually Huck would grow irritated and tiresome from having to hear it all the time. Huck 's whole life seems like it 's one big book of rules, he is always being told what to do, and how to do it, but not all the rules and orders are as easy as “sit up straight” Ranging from the rules that Huck had to deal with in the feud between the two families of

For instance, “Huck’s friendship with Jim is entirely possible because of one thing, and that 's the malleability of Huck’s cheerful youth. He is too young to be fully consumed by what people in the South during the Pre-Antebellum Era think is morally right or wrong” (Reinventing the Self in Huck Finn). Due to his young age he can approach certain scenarios and events with a sense of innocence that cannot be created by someone else if they were older. “Huck has a playful tone especially with the mix of many different conflicts going on in the novel, such as morality, racism, and slavery as a whole. His innocence and youthfulness provide an interesting balance throughout the novel, since those conflicts are so weighted during this time” (Reinventing the Self in Huck Finn). The major influence that this theme of youth has on Huckleberry Finn is that he is able to make decisions based on the contentment he holds for the simple life he is living, rather than being biased on his decisions and opinions if he were