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Huck Finn Character Development

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This is an analysis of the main character, Huck in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He is a boy. He is adopted widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. He has a father who is a very drunk and often attaches his body every time that his father encounters him. He is a bright, cheerful Kid, intelligent, a good astuteness, humourist, trickster and what is important is he love the adventure. He likes to live an ordinary life, but this reason who his adventures and journeys, he becomes a child with a problem. Whenever he encounters problems, he will use his clever ideas to solve the problem. By the way, he shot a wild pig and take a pig to the hovel. Then he spread the pig 's blood on the ground and also put his hair on the axe to convince people …show more content…

He is a child who created many stories, disguises and plans everything such as when he planned to escape from his drunken father because he cannot tolerate his father’s actions. At that time, he was locked up the hovel by his father. Then he decided to escape his father. He planned to escape by making the story seem to have been murdered to and left evidence and traces. The hoax makes everyone believe that he is dead. And he gained his freedom from his hoax. From this incident, it is shown his intelligent trickster and a good planning. By the way, he shot a wild pig and take a pig to the hovel. Then he spread the pig 's blood on the ground and also put his hair on the axe to convince people to believe that he was …show more content…

Besides, he uses the trickster to save himself, and he uses the trickster to help other people from the bad ones. For example, He helped three young girls from a Wilk family from deceive by the dauphin and duke. They always used tricks to do bad things in the story. They were very greedy because they fooled everybody when they had a chance. On the other hand, an example of good tricksters is Huck because he always employed the trickster strategies not to harm people. And another of his most important events is to help Jim from dangers. Jim is a negro slave who escapes like him and seeing him as a friend, not a Negro slave, he learns from the past events that he loves and cares for others and tries to help

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