Huckleberry Fin Character Analysis

One such work of the time is The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin. In this work by Mark Twain, a young boy from St. Petersburg, Missouri got some money from a previous adventure but the bank is withholding it from him until he becomes of age. He is adopted by an old lady and her sister but he does not enjoy the life of cleanliness, manners, church, and school but stays to take part in his friend’s gang of adventures. All is well and good until Huck’s brutish, drunken father, Pap, reappears in town and demands Huck’s money. The local judge, Judge Thatcher, and the Widow try to get legal custody of Huck, but another well-intentioned new judge in town believes in the rights of Huck’s natural father and even takes the old drunk into his own home in an attempt to reform him. This
In these families, there was a lot of disorder and nothing was perfect. One can see that there was a drinking problem with Huck’s father and that Huck had no mother. It was something that could be seen in many families of the time. By having Huck with a drunken father, most of the readers can empathize and relate to Huck more than they would if he was a kid from the upper class with some dream of becoming a great general. Huck just wanted a better life for himself and to get away from his careless father. That is why Huck ran away and faked his own death. Faking one’s own death may be extreme and not something that happened everyday but running away happened every day in the homes of ordinary families. Not all runaways were kids but a good majority was and they simply became frustrated with their family life and wanted to make something more of it so they would run off. Huck was not the only runaway in the novel. He encounters Jim, a runaway slave, and together they go on the run for a better life. The two are a representation of the common people of this time as they go in search for the classic “American