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Huckleberry Finn - College Essay

Huckleberry Finn

In the novel by Mark Twain, Huck goes through
many adventures on the Mississippi River. He escapes from Pap and
sails down the Mississippi with an escaped slave named Jim. Huck goes
through the moral conflict of how wrong it is to be helping Jim escape
to freedom. Eventually Huck decides he will help Jim and actually
steals him from a farmer with the help of Tom Sawyer, a friend.
Eventhough Huck and Jim are trying to sail to the Ohio River which
leads to freedom, they pass it in the dark.
Over the course of the novel Huck's opinion of Jim changes. In the
beginning of their voyage, Huck feels he shouldn't be helping Jim to
freedom and almost turns him in to slave catchers ...

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farm
(eventhough he was already set free by Miss Watson's will). Huck Finn
changes as we go through the story because Jim is really almost his
slave and he grows to like having Jim wait on him.
In Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain depicts Southern life and society
in the 1870's. The main point that Twain makes is that Southern life
is not as glorious as it's made out to be. We can tell this be several
ironies between the way Southern life was depicted and the way Twain
describes them. One of the ironies is that plantation owners were
supposed to be like kings, but Twain takes one of these "kings",
Colonel Sherburn and has him kill Boggs, the town drunk. If these
plantation owners were kings they'd have no reason to be killing
drunks. Another irony is that Southern society is supposed to be based
on European aristocracy, but in reality the characters in this book
are nothing but loafers and idiots. They are quick to pass judgment
like when Huck ...

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Added: 4/4/2006 09:45:42 AM
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