Huckleberry Finn Journey Analysis

The Journey

Reading has always been an important part of my life. It was something I could turn to for an escape to my reality, but I could have never imagined the impact one book would have. I remember in being assigned a literary analysis essay of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn in tenth grade. I began by thinking the assignment would be easy because I had already read the book a couple of years earlier. I was completely wrong. This book wound up changing my entire life; It appealed to my empathy and I realized a horrible mistake I had made every day without even knowing it.

While re-reading the book and working on the assignment, my teacher challenged me to identify the themes and other literary elements. Through this I began to really understand the author’s purpose. I learned about the injustices people suffered through simply because they were different, and that hate was and still is so easy to teach. I remember
I know that I am not able to change the world overnight, but I can try to change it one person at a time. Currently our president incites hate on national level, and even worse, he is not the first. Now more than ever, we need to get people talking to each other openly, and without blame; like Mark Twain with Huck and Jim. Once united as a country of Americans, not whites, blacks, Mexicans, or Asians living on the same soil, we can all help create a better country. As Huck says, “People will call me a low down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum—but that don’t make no difference. I ain’t agoing to tell, and I ain’t agoing back there anyways.” I am incredibly thankful for one assignment that feels like an age ago, and I am also thankful to the teacher who challenged me to find the deeper meaning of books and ultimately opened my eyes to the larger issue of racism in the