... really just about a boy and his friend running away from troubles or is there more than what meets the readers eye? Some say that Huckleberry Finn is strictly an adventure story, written by a man who needed a few extra dollars, and yet others argue that it is about more than that, that it was about problems in America then and problems that ... and later wrote about in a published essay One scholar explains, "shared character traits point conclusively to Jimmy as the model for Huck" (Fishkin 2), and then goes on to say such quotes as, in both the essay about Jimmy and in Huck Finn, the ...

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