Is Huck Finn Really Free

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huckleberry Finn

Huck is a young boy growing up in the deep south of Mississippi during the 19th century. The book was written in the perspective of a boy who has been raised in an abusive environment and lacks parental influence. Huck plans a great escape in order to free himself of his abusive father. Once devising an intellectual plan in order to fake his own death and leave no traces he set off down the Mississippi river. Not long after inhabiting a small island close to his home, he learns a fugitive slave whom he had previously known is also on the run. Jim, the runaway slave, and Huck develop a plan to go to Cario, a place where Jim and Huck could both be free. The Mississippi river has a great

Huck asks Tom Sawyer to help him free Jim, and much to his surprise Tom agrees. Tom is an educated societal boy so for him to do such a thing as assist in freeing a slave is alarming. Little does Huck know, Jim has already been set free; however, Tom is aware of this. As the two boys set off to free him Tom devises a plan to dig him out of the slave cabin. Tom has a love for adventures and soon treats the plan to free Jim as a great adventure story. While devising their plan to free Jim, Tom compares it to an adventure book and ensures Huck that there is no other way to free Jim than dig him out with knives. When Huck questions the stupidity of the plan he says “He turns on me looking pitying enough to make a body cry, and says: Huck Finn did you ever hear of a prisoner having picks and shovels and all the modern convinces in his wardrobe to dig himself out with.” Tom’s character is using Huck to fulfill a need for adventure, as he compares their plan to the escape of other stories he has read about in adventure books. Tom’s character in a way represents the corrupt society that Huck has left behind. His extravagant escape plots get in the way of the actual escape, almost causing them not to be capable of freeing