Huck Finn Reflection

The Journey of huckleberry Finn takes place in the south in 1840. It begins in a town of st peters burg Missouri on the Mississippi river. Huck Finn is a boy around 13 or 14 years old. He is a son of the towns drunk. And he lived most of his life motherless and homeless. He is used to wearing ragged cast off cloth, never going to school and doing whatever he wants. He is very good at doing outdoor thing such as hunting, fishing and trapping.

In the beginning of the book, he lives in a house because he has been adopted by the widow Douglas who is trying to civilize him. Huck and the window live with the widow 's sister Mrs. Watson, who scolds Huck frequently. The widow and Mrs Watson owns a number of friends. Whenever Huck can he sneaks off with window to hang out with his friend tom sower and they pretend to be in a robbers gang. One night Huck climbs into his bedroom window after being out all night with tom but notices his vigilant father pap sitting there waiting for him in his bedroom. Pap tells Huck stop trying to be better than his father. Pap wants Huck to stop attending school because this is making Huck smarter than him and he feels violated by this. He makes Huck give him money so he can get wasted as he would frequently. Pap runs off with

After sometime on the island he comes across a bonfire that was put out and he now realizes somebody is here on the island with him as well. Huck runs into the other individual and it turns out to be a slave named Jim. Jim says he ran away because he overheard Mrs. Watson talking about selling him down the river for $800 and sent to new Orleans as a field worker in the deep south taking him away from his family. Huck promises right off to not tell anyone that Jim ran away. He knows there 's a risk keeping such a secret is a big deal. Jim is going to hunt and any white person who sees him will take him and prosecute