Huckleberry Finn Analysis Essay

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Analysis Essay
The base of all modern literature, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is often critiqued for its foul language, even for the setting. However, the book’s vulgarity and vernacular is what makes it a great piece of American Literature. The villainization of African American slaves and how they’re treated is a key part of the book. In the book, Huckleberry Finn escapes his father's house and goes to an island, where he finds someone named Jim who is revealed as an escaped slave, who eventually he decides to help attain freedom. Throughout their journeys together, Huck finds him as not only a slave, but a friend and a father figure. Huck thinks of Jim as an escaped slave and he’s conflicted on whether …show more content…
Jim cares for Huckleberry throughout all their journeys. “I see Jim before me, all the time, in the day, and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking, and singing, and laughing, But somehow I couldn’t seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I’d see him standing my watch on top of his’n, stead of calling me, so i could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when i come back out of the fog… and would always call me honey, and pet me.” He looks for Jim’s affection and guidance all throughout the book, and he receives that. Jim takes Hucks watch as to let him sleep a little longer. Huck feels that Jim is more of a father than his own ever was, albeit an escaped slave. All throughout the book, Huck finds Jim to be not just a slave, but a father figure and a friend. Huck is raised and taught that slavery is a godly thing, and that “nigger stealers” will go to hell. Huck however is willing to be branded as this and go right to hell if it means helping his friend and father figure attain the freedom he so longed for. Although a slave, Jim is more of a father than his own will ever be, and a better friend than anyone else has ever been to

Show More