Huck Finn Life On The River Analysis

In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , throughout the story Mark Twain shows the readers how the life on the river and the life on the shore are different. The readers see the contrast between them because Huck feels safer in his life he has on river than his life on the shore.

Huck feels unsafe in his life on the shore because a lot of conflicts happens on the shore. “All of a sudden, bang! bang! bang! goes through four guns--the men had slipped around the woods and come in from behind without their horse!”(Twain). This demonstrates one of the many complications that Huck has witness on the shore. This event takes place when two families are physically fighting each other because both of their children were running away and were eloping. The two families have have hated each other for a very long time and unfortunately, Huck is in the middle of their issues. He feels unprotected because once Huck is out of the river, reality comes to play and he can no longer

The river is Huck's comfort zone because this is where the can process his internal thoughts and think for what he believes is right. “Then we set out the lines. Next we slid into the river and had a swim, so as to freshen up and cool off; then we set down on the sandy bottom where the water was about knee-deep, and watched and daylight come. Not a sound anywheres--perfectly still--just like the whole world was asleep”(Twain). The passage from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn demonstrates that Huck’s life was on the river was his utopia and nothing bad could ever go wrong. To Huck, the river is peaceful because he can truly be himself. Unlike the shore where Huck is stuck in life-threatening situations, Huck doesn't have deal with the chaos from his life on the shore when he is on river. Instead, Huck is calmer because in the quote the readers see how Huck describes the river. He uses imagery to show his passion for the