The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set along the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. It begins in St. Petersburg, Missouri where Huck lives with Widow Douglas because his father has disappeared. His father then returns, kidnapping Huck and living with him in a riverfront cabin. Huck becomes tired of the abuse by his father and fakes his own death so that he can run away. Huck meets up with Jim, a runaway slave, and they move along down the Mississippi. The pair then meets two con men, which go on scamming people along the trip. They then sell Jim to a farmer saying that he will receive a large reward for the slave’s capture. Huck finds out Jim was sold to the Phelps, Tom Sawyer’s relatives. He pretends to be Tom, until Tom arrives and helps to plan Jim’s escape. In the process of freeing Jim, Tom is shot in the leg and Jim sacrifices his freedom to save him. Jim discovers he is truly free when Tom’s aunt Polly arrives. Jim tells Huck he had seen his father dead, and Huck decides to head for the West.
Huck Finn is a thirteen-year-old boy whose father has basically abandoned him with nothing to live on. Huck is very skeptical of the world around him and is always trying to get away from it. As he learns more about the world, he realizes that telling a lie now and then is sometimes better than telling the truth because it will aid the situation instead of harming it. Huck needs to struggle between what he has learned from society and what he is learning on his own. He represents the ideal that not everyone is a cog in the machine of society, but rather their own unique being.
There are three themes that run throughout the story, the first is that of racism and slavery. This is exposed by Huck’s decision to help to free Jim because he does not feel slavery is something that should exist. He also learns of the immense racism towards black people in the South during his trip. A second theme is Huck’s moral education that he gains as he travels. He learns what society really is, and how he can read and interpret the world around him. The third theme is that of civilized society, and how it is not truly just if it involves the owning of people as slaves. He also finds that terrible actions go unpunished while small crimes warrant execution.
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