Huckleberry Finn's Idea of a Paragon of a Family

What does every child need? They need someone who loves them. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain, the main character, Huck Finn, had just the opposite. He did not have a mother, and his father was an uneducated, abusing drunk who only cared about money and whiskey. Huck takes a journey down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave, Jim, and takes back much more than an adventure. While he was on the Mississippi River, Huck was unintentionally on a search for a family, which is illustrated by his relationship with Jim, the stories he concocts, the families that he meets on his journey, and his envy toward Tom Sawyer, Huck’s friend. Huck wants to be accepted into society, but the only way he will be accepted is by conforming to the rest of society’s beliefs on how things should be.
At first, Huck saw Jim as society saw him, emotionless mass that was here to serve. As Huck and Jim journeyed down the river, Huck was able to und...