Rollin Down The River: The Uniting Of Theme And Plot In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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river provides us with that chance.

Throughout the book we see the hypocrisy of society. The first character
we come across with that trait is Miss Watson. Miss Watson constantly
corrects Huck for his unacceptable behavior, but Huck doesn't understand
why, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when
they don't know nothing about it" (2). Later when Miss Watson tries to
teach Huck about Heaven, he decides against trying to go there, "...she
was going to live so as to go the good place. Well, I couldn't see no
advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn't try
for it." (3) The comments made by Huck clearly show Miss Watson as a
hypocrite, scolding Huck for wanting to smoke and then using snuff herself
and firmly believing that she would be in heaven.

When Huck encounters the Grangerfords and Shepardsons, Huck describes
Colonel Grangerford as, "...a gentleman, you see. He was a gentleman all
over; and so was his family. He ...

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running to freedom of the river. The
river never cares how saintly you are, how rich you are, or what society
thinks you are. The river allows Huck the one thing that Huck wants to be,
and that is Huck. The river is freedom than the land is oppression, and
that oppression is no more evident than it is to Jim.

It is somewhat surprising that Huck's traveling companion is Jim. As anti-
society that Huck is, you would think that he would have no qualms about
helping Jim. But Huck has to have feelings that slavery is correct so we
can see the ignorance of racial bigotry. Huck and Jim's journey begins as
Huck fights within himself about turning Jim over to the authorities.
Finally he ...

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