The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn portrays a young boy who runs away from his worthless father, and floats down the Mississippi on a raft, in company with Jim, a runaway Negro. It is a unique novel of its time which gives a vivid picture of Western life forty or fifty years ago. A classic book in American literature, Mark Twain writes this adventurous book in an autobiographical form. This creates a very valuable and unique narration which creates a certain unity with the reader so that every scene is given and not described. Throughout the novel, a young boy named Huck Finn is torn between the expectations of his society and what his heart tells him is right. A boy who starts as a loyal member of society, Huck becomes questionable of the world in which he lives in and struggles to distant himself from civilization’s rules.
Perhaps one of the most amusing issues that Huck struggles with throughout the novel is with his conscience in regard to slavery. Though Huck’...