Geography Of Huckleberry Finn Research Paper

I have chosen the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, because it involves all of the five themes of geography, some more evident than others. The story takes place in 1840 and is about a young boy, Huckleberry Finn, who runs away from his abusive father and meets up with Jim, the runaway slave of the woman that took Huck in when his father abandoned him. Jim escaped because he was about to be sold and separated from his family. The two decide to escape together and take Jim to freedom so that he can get a job and earn enough money to free his family. Huck and Jim take a raft along the Mississippi River heading toward the Ohio River, but they miss the entrance to the Ohio River. They have many adventures along the Mississippi River and Huckleberry Finn learns a lot about people and society. Jim is eventually freed but only because it turns out that he had been freed by his owner's will. Location is the absolute or relative location of a place. Absolute location is exact location of place and can be the latitude and longitude of a location, the town, the address, or anything that gives a definite location of place. The

The reasons people or goods move from area to area are push and pull factors. The movement in the book concerned Huck and Jim trying to head north to a free state. Missouri was a slave state and Jim wanted to move to a free state along the Ohio River. The push from the south in this case was the laws concerning slavery. The pull to the north was the lack of slavery. Escaped slaves of that time would head to free states and hope they would not get sent back to their owners in slave states. Some freed slaves would head north because some northern states put less restrictions on freed slaves than other states. Being a slave state was common in their Region, Mississippi Delta and the