Throughout the course of the novel, Huck transforms from a product of society into someone that chooses to rebel against all everything he has been taught by helping Jim. Huck is clearly racist when he first meets Jim. He still follows the ideas of society. However, as he gets to know Jim, he is able to see Jim differently. He starts to form a connection with him.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain showcases a story where society upholds racial discriminations that clearly set a line between slaves and those who own them. In the novel whites are superior while black people are below them and are practically just objects that can be sold and replaced. The way that society functioned and the abuse that Huck received is what made him decide to leave and find his freedom. Jim, a slave who was gonna be sold also decides to leave in order to obtain his freedom. Both Huck and Jim leave their homes and families to go on a journey to find their freedom.
I made up my mind I would fix up some way to leave there” (Twain 22). Once Huck sets his mind to something he does not give up, so the reader understands that no matter what might happen Huck will find a way to get out of this place that is supposed to be a home. Since Huck is used to being held captive and taken advantage of by his own father after his journey is over he would rather be alone than expect to live under someone 's roof and by their mannerisms. “Aunt Sally she’s
They are both looking for a better life than what they had before, and found their haven on the river. As the story progresses, Jim helps Huck grow into a man by forcing him to be independent from society, changing his morals, and being a true father figure to him. In the beginning of the novel, Huck did not have an independent opinion about social issues. He grew up uncivilized and has just recently began to conform to society’s norms. These norms include the idea that slavery is a good thing, and that African Americans should not be treated as equals.
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain embellishes the bond formed between Huck and Jim and how Huck views Jim as a slave, friend, and father-figure. At the beginning of the novel, Huck’s attitude towards Jim was considered racist. To him, Jim was less than a man and just property, nothing else. “Well, then, what makes
All relationships have bumps in the road and hard times to overcome but in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the two main characters, Huck and Jim’s, relationship was special. They had a relationship that would change the outcome of millions of lives of slaves and people who were looked down upon. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can be seen as the emergence of racial tolerance shown through the relationship of Huck and Jim. The way that Huck treats Jim on occasions such as when Jim told Huck about his family and Huck saw Jim as a normal human being with a family. Another occasion was when Huck was thinking about Jim and realized he was also white inside meaning he felt Jim was an equal.
Huck’s thoughts represent his conscience overruling society and his emotions are more influential. Huck begins to see a glimpse of how he is working against
In the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn is Tom’s companion in virtually all of his adventures. Huckleberry Finn is described as “lawless and vulgar and bad” by the adults of the village. Contrary to what the adults believe, Huckleberry Finn is loyal, fair, and unable to control his circumstances. Firstly, “bad” should not be synonym to Huckleberry Finn’s name because Huck is loyal to those who are kind to him. Huck has displayed loyalty several times throughout the novel.
It would be hard to argue that Huckleberry Finn is not a mischievous novel. However, in classifying the novel that way, the temptation is to create an overly simplistic binary relationship between Huck and society. However, though Huck is in many ways an outsider, he does not resist establishing himself within various people. Huck is a loner at times, but he needs people too, and he is open to spending a little time until something happens. This realization is important in studying Huck's moral decisions since his awareness of contingencies is bound up in his sense of his surroundings.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view..until you climb into his skin and walk around in it"(Lee 30).In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, his environment and the hardships he faced forced the narrator and main character, Huck Finn, to mature quickly. Such. The decision he made to runaway has found himself in a relationship with Jim, a runaway slave. His relationship with Jim facilitated Huck’s growth morally and through that moral growth he begins to cognitively question the morals of society. Huck’s moral growth is started because Huck has a strong moral compass that tells him right from wrong.