Theme Of Freedom In Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain will often add slavery elements into his writing and hint at how wrong slavery really is. Since Twain’s writings are made in the late 1800’s early 1900’s, no one realized what he is really getting at with certain writings, such Mark Twain’s brilliant novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, featuring the two boys escaping society; Huckleberry Finn and Jim. In the novel, a country boy raised by Widow Douglas, Huckleberry Finn, is brought back to his abusive and drunk father, who left him when he was younger. Huckleberry then proceeds to escape his father by taking his canoe to the isolated Jaxson’s island, where he meets an African-American slave that had also runaway; Jim. Huck and Jim then leave Jaxson’s Island on a raft and start their long trek towards freedom from society and slavery. One major element to the Novel is the concept of being free whereas Jim and Huckleberry are the main characters experiencing what freedom really is. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the key theme of the writing is freedom because of the people, the objects, and the places that deal with or represent freedom.
First off, specific items in the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, are symbols of freedom. To start off, Huck and Jim’s raft is an example of an object symbolizing freedom. In this event, Huck has just left his hiding spot in the tree, while his friend Buck and his brother were both shoot. Huck decides that he is safe enough to leave his hiding