One of my favorite parts in the book, Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, was Huck Finn. His mischievous ways throughout the story were one of the things that I constantly looked forward too. I could not help but thinking what he was going to do next. His humor was another one of my favorite parts about the book. I loved how he was rebellious to his father, Pap, and the Widow Douglas when they tried to change how he was acting and influence how he saw the world. At the beginning of the book he was just trying to escape from all of his troubles at home. Then once him and Jim met up, it turned into getting both of them freedom from their past.
Seeing Huck mature throughout the novel was an interesting thing to follow while reading. He went from a little kid who was forced to …show more content…
They both try to get away from their past the whole book and it takes them a while to realize that they cannot keep running from their problems and leave them behind. Some problems they have to face head on and only then can they really be free from their past. They keep getting pulled back towards their past.
“I begun to suspicion something. So did Jim. I says: “Maybe we went by Cairo in the fog that night.” He says: “Doan’ less’ talk about it, Huck. Po’ niggers can’t have no luck. I awluz ‘spected dat rattle-snake, Jim--I do wish I’d never laid eyes on it.” “It ain’t yo’ fault, Huck; you didn’ know. Don’t you blame yo’self ‘bout it,” (page 86).
This is a part in the book where they miss the Ohio River and Cairo where it would ultimately give Jim his freedom and give Huck a place to escape his past. This is a great example where they were not able to escape their past. They came so close to being able to run away from their problems but they just could not. This is a key point where Huck matured. Even though he could not get away, he did not stop, he kept going trying to get his