Huck Finn's Search For Freedom

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is about a young boy, named Huckleberry, fakes his death to get away from his drunk of a father, the town is left wondering who murdered him. Meanwhile Jim, a slave, happens to run away from his owner on the same night. When Jim is found missing the towns people pin the homicide on him. A little way up the river, on an island, Jim and Huck bump into each other and decide to work together to escape their old lives. While on this journey they bond over their search for freedom and because of Jim, Huck takes a new perspective on the value of black lives.
Huck and Jim find themselves both trying to escape to freedom. When Huck is kidnapped by pap he learns to enjoy his time because he no longer has any responsibilities. Huck thinks to himself that, “It was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing,
With the lack of responsibility Huck feels alive with his new freedom from society. Further down the river as Jim, a runaway slave, explains to Huck why he has run away and his plan to buy back his family from slavery. Throughout this he expresses his gratitude to Huck for helping him escape. Jim says that he will be a free man because of Huck (67). Without Huck, Jim would have no hope for freedom. After spending time on the shore and experiencing the tragedy of the family feud, they find comfort and safety on the raft. “there warnt no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. you feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft (88). The raft is a way for them to get away from the struggles of society that waits for them on the shore. So together they make their way down the river in search of freedom.
Racism is a big part of the book and the development of Huck’s view of the world. At the start of the book, Huck has not yet expressed how he feels about racism, other than the brief interaction with Mrs. Watsons