Huckleberry Finn: An American Classic

Huckleberry Finn: An American Classic

Take yourself back to a time when slavery ran rampant through America, blacks were whipped and sold off the block, and it was a lifetime instead of just a short flight to ‘head out west’: such were the times in the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Through the adventures and mishaps of Huck Finn, Twain paints a picture of his idea of the perfect American. With each of Huck’s escapades, Twain illustrates an important value or lesson that Huck (and hopefully the reader) eventually figures out. His main point in the book, however, is to illustrate the faults almost permanently ingrained in society as a whole. These faults become evident in the differences he provides between the mainland and the raft. Twain makes a special point to illustrate the values of freedom, honesty with one’s self, and greed through these differences.
With every hour Huck spends on the Mississippi, he begins to value more and more the freedom ...