2_Essays_Over_Huck_Finn

2 Essays Over Huck Finn 1) Throughout the novel Huckleberry Finn, Huck progresses physically, mentally, and morally. Although he will never (within the novel) have a full enough understanding of his surroundings to give us a fair perception, we can obviously see that his down-to-earth ideals spread unto his morals. As Huck continually rejects the values of society and it's twisted hierarchy, he matures morally. The internal conflict within Huck between his own sense of right and wrong and society's at first tears him apart, not knowing what to do and praying unto God to help him understand. However, as he and Jim embark upon their journey, they both make many observations on human nature and the South in general. Jim is a much deeper character (morally speaking) than Huck may ever be. As a young narrator, he cannot efficiently evaluate Jim as a person, merely as a "nigger" and so as the reader, one must suppose his qualities. As they go along their adventure, the allusion to the freedom of the river is further accentuated. It seems to the common reader, the longer Huck and Jim stay on shore, the more trouble that arises. Upon the river raft, they can be naked (obviously shunned by society), a white boy can be friends with an adult slave (never even thought of along the shore), and the slaves, huck, slave, jim, douglass, within, novel, master, young, twain, person, owners, out, one, morally, life, order, huckleberry, horrible, captain, although, along, white, while, using, upon, unto, tones, themselves, speaking, society, slaves', slave's, sight, shows, shore, sent, sense, self, seems, river, physical, own, over, often, must, much, mention, masters, make