Argumentative Essay On Huckleberry Finn

“For what you want, above all things on a raft, is for everyone to be satisfies, and feel and be kind towards the others,” (Twain 125). In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author, Mark Twain, has the main characters spend the majority of their time on the raft traveling down the Mississippi River. Huck was a fairly normal kid with adventurous friends, like Tom Sawyer, and an odd home life but, he was always trying to hide from his abusive father, Pap. When Huck decided he needed to escape Pap for good and Jim found out he may get sold at an auction in the south, they both decided to run away on their own. They did not expect to meet but, when they did it was a pleasant surprise. They took off together and met some interesting

He spent the whole story trying to escape Pap and not get discovered in the process. Freedom and the journey that comes with it is all Huck wanted and Twain shows that Huck will never cease to work for it. In the book, Huck says," But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before,” (Twain 279). This shows that Huck has worked so hard for freedom and he won’t let it slip through his fingers like the Widow and Mrs. Watson want him to. Also in the text, Huck says that Jim and he would get on to the raft to travel down the river, it would calm him and that he had a sense of the raft being his new home (Twain 117). This shows that Huck feels safer on a raft that he calls home, than where he was born and raised. He feels self-governing and that’s basically safety in his

Once, Huck explained that running away made Jim, “all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom,” (Twain 91) which clearly displays how desperately Jim needed to escape the life that he would have had if he had stayed home. Jim and Huck wanted to feel safe and freedom brought them together to be each other’s safety. In the novel, Jim says “My heart wuz mos’ broke bekase you wuz los’, en I didn’t k’yer no mo’ what become er me en de raf’. En when I wake up en fine you back agin’, all safe en soun’, de tears come en I could a got down on my knees en kiss’ yo’ foot I’s so thankful. En all you wuz thinkin ‘bout wuz how you could make a fool uv ole Jim wid a lie,” (Twain 89) and that made it obvious that the two had grown rather close and that their lives and desire for a free life was what brought them