Huck Finn Essay, Research Paper

Huck Finn

Huck has a grim attitude toward people he disagrees with or doesnt get

along with. Huck tends to alienate himself from those people. He doesnt let it

bother him. Unlike most people Huck doesnt try to make his point. When Huck

has a certain outlook on things he keep his view. He will not change it for

anyone. For instance in Chapter Three when Miss Watson tells Huck that if he

prayed he would get everything he wished for. Huck just shook his head yes and

walked away telling Tom that it doesnt work because he has tried it before with

fishing line and fishing hooks. this tell us that Huck is an independent person

who doesnt need to rely on other people.

This is a book of social criticism. Twain has his ways of criticizing

people of their actions and the things they do. Twain does a good job

expressing the characters social behaivors. Instead of upfront making fun of

Hulks actions he hints towards them or tries to glorify them when he does

something that is socially wrong or unintelligent. Huck stages his death. This

is not a real bright thing to do even though Huck’s father is real mean and is a

threat to his life and Huck’s life. Huck wants to get away from him so bad that

the first thing that comes into his mind is to stage his death so Pap will think

he’s dead and won’t be looking for him ever again. Twain feels that by making

Huck do this Twain is poking fun a Huck’s intelligence. Not his nature

intelligence but his book intelligence. In other words Twain is making fun of

Huck. Twain also portrays Huck and Jim as stupid when Huck dresses up like a

girl. Everyone knows Huck will not pass as a girl

Jim is very much like a father to Huck. He looks out for Huck and he is

respected and looked upon by Huck. This is also more significant because

Huckleberry Finn never had a father and he never really had a role model. Jim

serves this purpose perfectly. On one occasion Huck and Jim were exploring an

old house that had floated down stream. While they were looking in it Jim

discovered a dead body. Jim then covered up the corpse so Huck wouldn’t see it.

Jim felt that seeing a dead body at such a young age could corrupt a boy for

life. Huck then wanted to talk about the dead body but Jim suggested that they

dont talk about it because it might bring bad luck. Huck then tried to play a

practical joke on Jim by putting a dead snake near him. Jim was scared. Later

the snakes mate came back and bit Huck. Jim was not at the site and didn’t know

about it.