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    changes were about by how Jim and Huck treated each other. Huck is none too thrilled with his new life of cleanliness‚ manners‚ church and school. Huck is trying to be respectable so he can escape. As you read‚ you find out that the way Huck was raised has really affected him but he has Jim there to help him. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Mark Twain portrays how Southern society accepts‚ unquestioningly the principle of slavery. Through the character of Huck and his internal debates‚ we see

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    exhume the body and check for the tattoo themselves. The mob carries the four Wilks claimants and Huck with them. The mob is in an uproar when the $6‚000 in gold is discovered in the coffin. In the excitement‚ Huck escapes. Passing the Wilks house‚ he notices a light in the upstairs window and thinks of Mary Jane. Huck steals a canoe and makes his way to the raft‚ and he and Jim shove off once again. Huck dances for joy on the raft. His heart sinks‚ however‚ when the duke and the dauphin approach in

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    seem so cramped up and smothery‚ but a raft don’t.(Twain 18.6)” To Huck‚ the river portrays life without rules. However they didn’t realize that freedom comes with many challenges. On their journey‚ both Huck and Jim encounter many obstacles including: Burglars‚ losing their raft‚ missing the mouth of the Ohio River‚ getting caught up in the Grangerford-Shepherdson bloodbath‚ meeting the Duke and King‚ and losing Jim to slavery. Huck realizes that the real freedom is on the river when he says‚ ”So

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    the greed evil men. In the case of Huck‚ the mental toll of lying took a lot out of him‚ and would shape the course of the adventures that lied ahead. In “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”‚ Huck uses multiple bad lies throughout the story. One bad lie regards Huck dumping a rattlesnake into the bed of Jim‚ the practical joke would eventually lead to Jim being bitten. This bad lie caused physical pain for Jim and emotional pain for Huck. A lie not used by Huck was that of the Duke and Dauphin‚

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    both Huck and Jim‚ nature represents freedom while also representing an escape from society. As individuals‚ Jim and Huck are both escaping society for their own reasons. The best way for Huck and Jim to escape is nature‚ thus nature provides the basis for the freedom both individuals gain. Huck has always enjoyed nature‚ but only when he is taken by his pap does Huck realize just how much freedom he had lost. When Huck’s pap takes him from Miss Wilson’s to the cabin in the woods‚ Huck realizes

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    witnessed and felt first hand. One can literally feel for the characters and perhaps even relate at some points. Berty’s stubborn and quick tempered personality make it difficult for him to succeed‚ until he meets Lionel‚ an elderly man who sees something in Berty‚ the potential for greatness. Lionel stands by Berty; helping and pushing him outside his comfort zone‚ trying to eliminate or at least control his speech impediment. The title of King George VI is Berty’s and with Lionel’s help‚ the two work to

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    putting good role models for huck such as: Judge Thatcher‚ Widow Douglas‚ And many more. On the other side he shows us also bad examples of role models‚ characters like Pap‚ the king‚ and the duke. Throughout the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Twain Shows us through Huck the importance of a role model in ones life. Throughout the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn we meet many characters Who influence the thinking and actions of the protagonist‚ huck. One of the characters

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    Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are best friends that have many things in common and many things that are not in common. Tom is better at using his imagination. In the beginning of the Adventures of Huck Finn Tom makes a robber band with the neighborhood boys. Huck soon decides that it is boring because they were not doing anything that Tom promised they would. Huck could not pretend that they were doing what Tom said they were doing. This is again illustrated in the end when Tom and Huck are trying to

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    In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain‚ the protagonist Huck Finn at the beginning of the novel is exposed to abuse and violence at the hands of his father‚ this damaging experience can destroy the innocence of childhood. But‚ Huck’s coming of age is more a rejection of the hypocrisy of the society around him. The single most important development in his psychological and moral coming of age is viewing Jim as a human being‚ rather than a lesser slave. This particular example of Huck’s

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    pre-civil war time. Young Huck Finn escapes the confinements of society when he runs away from first‚ Miss Watson and Widow Douglas and then his father‚ Pap. At the beginning of his journey‚ he meets up with Miss Watson’s runaway slave‚ Jim. They become travel companions and eventually‚ the best of friends. After many crazy adventures and a lot of adversity‚ the river brings them both to freedom. Throughout Huckleberry Finn’s journey in the book‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Huck becomes a good person

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