Huck Finn Esay

tact with. From the very beginning of the novel, Huck terrorizes Ms. Waterson, his keeper with various tricks and antics. He plays his games on her because he is immature and only a child. Ms. Waterson tries desperately to conform Huck to the rules of her “game” by making him civilized and not allowing him to just be a child. Huck rebels against this and plays childish pranks on her, never meaning any harm and only for his own amusement. Another example of Huck’s childish tricks is when he and Tom play a trick on Ms. Waterson’s slave, Jim, while he is asleep. Although Jim could retaliate, the boys are only children and they are regarded as harmless. Another example of Huck’s child-like games is he and Tom’s “gang of robbers” whom they and the other boys form for fun. This gang plans to kill, kidnap, and rob anyone who they can find, although none of them really have any intention of doing these things. They have an elaborate fantasy in which they are all pirates and robbers, living adventurous lives of crime, but it is all just make-believe. Going as far as taking an oath, they swear into the pretend gang, taking on the disguise of feared criminals. We see their clildhood and innocence bleed through when none of them know what a “ransom” or a “stick-up” are. Although Huck is in favor of the pretending game, he becomes bored with this aimless pretending. The last point of the childhood section is Huck’s staging of his own death and his escape. Huck makes something as serious as his own murder into a game, planting clues for the others to find in his house, almost getting a sense of joy from the whole ordeal. It seems that this death fantasy reaches the point of the robber gang game, but Huck does not fully realize that this game has consequences because he is too young to understand. While escaping to Jackson Island, Huck finds a game-like enjoyment in hiding from his friends and neighbors after they discover his murder scene. When the town sends a boat down the river to find his corpse, he evades it, as if in a game of tag. All of these points together come to a conclusion that Huck is only a c

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