Freedom In Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain was a satirical author. Most would even call him a wise ass based on his sarcastic quotes and responses. Other than just his great humor, Mark twain had a simple view on freedom that few would now disagree with, but at the time challenged majority thinking. He believed all men and women should be treated equally. That we should all have freedom to live our lives the way we please, and therefor there should be no slavery or segregation. Although Mark Twain never directly said this, it is clear that he felt this way about freedom based on his novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” Mark Twain felt freedom is necessary among all humans. Freedom is not just a word one can say without meaning. It is a privilege, a privilege not everyone is granted. Twain gives a clear example of this in his novel. Twain shows how appreciative Huck is when he is on his own. He also does the same thing with Jim, who is thankful to finally be free
Huck, a thirteen year old boy, lives with Widow Douglas and her sister miss Watson. He lives with them because before this he had no home, only a drunken father who he would hardly see. While he lived with the women, they both tried their best to civilize him and keep him away from his old ways. They tried sending h8m to school and teaching him to use his best manners. “Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow if she would let me, she said it was a mean practice and wasn’t clean, and that I must try to not do it anymore.” In this part of the story you can see that Huck enjoyed doing what he wanted. “I liked the old ways best, but I was getting so I liked the new ones too, a little bit.” That quote is from chapter 4 and was spoken by Huck. In that quote you can see that Huck misses his old ways and not being civilized. After reading those parts of the novel you can see that Mark Twain shows appreciation for