Huckleberry Finn Response
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Theme: To me the reader, or the audience, best interprets the theme of this story, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. To some they simply may see this as a fiction novel written for fun rather than having a main focus point, or underwritten message. Others may see this whole novel as a depiction of something quite the opposite, suggesting that Mark Twain wrote a parable meaning that the simple things of a young boys life may be complicated by his over indulgent imagination. To me the novel is saying to follow your heart and not always do what is necessarily condemned as “right” or “just” by law, but to rather do what makes you happy.
Setting: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes place around the …show more content…
Huck Finn is a simple southern boy that has an elusive imagination that helps him surmount many obstacles by using his unusual wit and a little luck. Another major character in this novel is Jim the slave. Jim, with the help of Huck Finn, escapes from slavery in order to reunite with his family. To me Jim is written to be perceived as an undermined person, but in actuality Jim is the reason for Huck taking the chances he did. A minor character that was quite fond of Huck Finn was Tom Sawyer. Tom is key to Huck having the passion and intuition that he does. There are many other characters in the novel such as Miss Watson, Huck’s father, miscellaneous river men, the King and Duke, and families of different locations from Huck’s journey, that have created many adventures for Huck and …show more content…
Jim is united with Huck after he escapes from slavery and is trying to reunite with his family. From there Jim and are forced to go down the Mississippi River with ultimate goal of getting to Louisiana. Almost immediately a tight friendship is born between Huck and Jim. The two are faced with many hurdles at first due to their amateur experience of navigating the waters. As hop from town to town by their nocturnal habit of sailing at night and hiding at day. At a farm in Arkansas Huck has his first test by being separated from Jim and having to rely on his wit to help fool a family he meets in order to have a safe place to stay and regroup pin order to continue his adventure. Proving to be harder that he expects Huck soon finds himself in a bind, he the reunites with Jim and heads down river
Theme: To me the reader, or the audience, best interprets the theme of this story, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. To some they simply may see this as a fiction novel written for fun rather than having a main focus point, or underwritten message. Others may see this whole novel as a depiction of something quite the opposite, suggesting that Mark Twain wrote a parable meaning that the simple things of a young boys life may be complicated by his over indulgent imagination. To me the novel is saying to follow your heart and not always do what is necessarily condemned as “right” or “just” by law, but to rather do what makes you happy.
Setting: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes place around the …show more content…
Huck Finn is a simple southern boy that has an elusive imagination that helps him surmount many obstacles by using his unusual wit and a little luck. Another major character in this novel is Jim the slave. Jim, with the help of Huck Finn, escapes from slavery in order to reunite with his family. To me Jim is written to be perceived as an undermined person, but in actuality Jim is the reason for Huck taking the chances he did. A minor character that was quite fond of Huck Finn was Tom Sawyer. Tom is key to Huck having the passion and intuition that he does. There are many other characters in the novel such as Miss Watson, Huck’s father, miscellaneous river men, the King and Duke, and families of different locations from Huck’s journey, that have created many adventures for Huck and …show more content…
Jim is united with Huck after he escapes from slavery and is trying to reunite with his family. From there Jim and are forced to go down the Mississippi River with ultimate goal of getting to Louisiana. Almost immediately a tight friendship is born between Huck and Jim. The two are faced with many hurdles at first due to their amateur experience of navigating the waters. As hop from town to town by their nocturnal habit of sailing at night and hiding at day. At a farm in Arkansas Huck has his first test by being separated from Jim and having to rely on his wit to help fool a family he meets in order to have a safe place to stay and regroup pin order to continue his adventure. Proving to be harder that he expects Huck soon finds himself in a bind, he the reunites with Jim and heads down river