The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences On Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel about a
young boy's coming of age in the Missouri of the mid-1800's. The main character,
Huckleberry Finn, spends much time in the novel floating down the Mississippi
River on a raft with a runaway slave named Jim. Before he does so, however, Huck
spends some time in the fictional town of St. Petersburg where a number of
people attempt to influence him.
Before the novel begins, Huck Finn has led a life of absolute
freedom. His drunken and often missing father has never paid much attention to
him; his mother is dead and so, when the novel begins, Huck is not used to
following any rules. The book's opening finds Huck ...

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many rules in his life, finds the demands the women place
upon him constraining and the life with them lonely. As a result, soon after he
first moves in with them, he runs away. He soon comes back, but, even though he
becomes somewhat comfortable with his new life as the months go by, Huck never
really enjoys the life of manners, religion, and education that the Widow and
her sister impose upon him.
Huck believes he will find some freedom with Tom Sawyer. Tom is a
boy of Huck's age who promises Huck and other boys of the town a life of
adventure. Huck is eager to join Tom Sawyer's Gang because he feels that doing
so will allow him to escape the somewhat boring life he leads with the Widow
Douglas. Unfortunately, such an escape does not occur. Tom Sawyer promises
much--robbing stages, murdering and ransoming people, kidnaping beautiful women-
-but none of this comes to pass. Huck finds out too late that Tom's adventures
are imaginary: that raiding a caravan of ...

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Added: 10/2/2008 01:18:52 AM
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