... Twain and published in 1885. The story is narrated by the main character, Huck Finn, who is orphaned and being cared for by two ladies, Miss Watson and her sister, Widow Douglas. The heart of the story is about a journey Huck and a befriended slave, Jim, endure together down the Mississippi river ... "in search of freedom". Jim is in search of freedom from slavery and he is on the run from his owner who is Miss Watson. Huck is on the run from his abusive father and later into the story, we learn Huck is in search of a more "natural" freedom ... from the mainstream rules of society-he is...

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... Huckleberry Finn- Huck is the main character of the story. His mother is dead and father is a drunk and abuses him. Jim- Jim is the slave of Miss Watson. He is very superstitious and believes in witches. The King- The King is a bum that, after hearing the other bum say that he was a duke, said that ... bum. He pretends that he is the rightful Duke of Bilgewater. Huckleberry Finn is a child around the age of 14. He lives along the Mississippi River with Miss Watson. She is his guardian, because his mother is dead and his father is a drunk. His father abuses him. When Huck's father comes t...

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... any and everything others do to be wrong and out of perspective, but for some reason can't seem to come to terms with their own faults. In the novel, Miss Watson is a firm believer in God and Providence, and without a doubt is absolutely sure she"ll make it in the pearly white gates. NOT!!! Miss ... Watson is the biggest hypocrite alive. How can one preach, testify, or even convince others to love ye one another, and at the same time beat an innocent person to death? ... world coming to? But when it all boils down, God has a plan for all of that. He condemns people like Miss Watson an...

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... civilized than life in towns where slavery and religious prejudice are considered normal. They live in an ethically confused society in which 'good' whites like Sally Phelps and Miss Watson show no concern for the treatment of the black society. Jim's intelligence, compassion and loyalty show him to be a heroic figure in this novel and the only character that provides ... that Jim is being held captive on the Phelps farm, he has conflicting feelings about whether he should turn Jim in or help him escape. He writes a letter to Miss Watson letting her know that Mr. Phelps has Jim and...

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... . The story begins when Huckleberry finds the money stashed away from Mark Twain's previous book in the series. Huck is adopted by Widow Douglas who lives with her sister, Miss Watson. Huck is reluctant to live under Widow Douglas rules of being clean, going to church, and going to school but Tom tells Huck if he wanted to be in his ... worse beatings to come so he fakes his own death. Huck then ran away from the cabin to get away from his father. Huck soon finds Jim, a slave of Miss Watson, as he was escaping for his freedom as well, because Jim had heard that he was going to be sold to...

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... town until he could be returned to his rightful owner. Huck is terrified and wonders if he would just like to go home. He decides to write a letter to Miss Watson, Jim's owner, telling her where he is. However, when the letter is written, Huck contemplates his friendship and realizations about Jim. "I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two ... procedures. This in itself is representative of Tom's lack of maturity, but what makes it worse is that Tom holds the knowledge that Jim has already been set free. Miss Watson died weeks ago, setting Jim free in her will....

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... own judgment to make fundamental decisions that will affect the morals which Huck will carry with him for the rest of his life. Preceding the start of the novel, Miss Watson and the widow have been granted custody of Huck, an "unsivilized" boy who encompasses no set of morals as his own. That is to say, he conforms to that of ... , nobody could think of anything to do- everybody was stumped, and set still. I was most ready to cry; but all at once I thought of a way, and so I offered them Miss Watson-they could kill her."(Twain, 9) At this moment, Huck is at the peak of his immorality. On...

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... use his own judgement to make fundamental decisions that will effect the morals of which Huck will carry with him throughout his life. Preceding the start of the novel, Miss Watson and the widow have been granted custody of Huck, an uncivilized boy who possesses no morals. Huck looks up to a boy named Tom Sawyer who has decided he is going ... , nobody could think of anything to do- everybody was stumped, and set still. I was most ready to cry; but all at once I thought of a way, and so I offered them Miss Watson-they could kill her (17-18). At this moment, Huck is at the peak of his imm...

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... Finn: the main Character of the book, son of the town drunk. He is 12 yrs old. Clever and knows a lot about life. Jim: the run away slave of Miss Watson helps Huck gain freedom. Travels with him. Widow Douglas: Huck's guardian who adopts him and wants to civilize him. Takes care of two other kids. Pap: Huck's father when he ... ...

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... has received in school. He chooses to "go to hell" rather than go along with what he's been taught. "It was a close place. I took...up [the letter I'd written to Miss Watson], and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to ... ...

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... turn Jim in to them. He still believes that turning Jim in would be the "right" thing, because he, helping her nigger to escape, has been feeling bad for Miss Watson, who seems to be a "good" person. At the end, Huck decides to do what's "handiest" disregard morality. After the two men go away, wondering that he would have felt worse ... ...

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... Twain, follows a young southerner child, Huck, and his adventures with a black slave, Jim. They are both fighting for their freedom, Huck from his father and Jim from his owner, Miss Watson. Jim has a very skeptical image in the book, sometimes sly and intelligent, yet sometimes uneducated and ignorant. This changing portrait of Jim is called the Angel/Beast dichotomy, which is ... ...

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... into the river. He wants to be free. When he gets out the woods, and he floats downstream to Jackson's Island. Now he actually be free. Jim who is Miss Watson's slave, he wants to escape after he overhearing that she wants to sell him to traders from down south. Jim also escapes to the river as Huck. Both Huck and ... ...

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... Tom wakes up and tells the truth before Huck can quite him. After all that, Tom proceeds to tell everyone that Jim is a free man and was freed in Miss Watson's will when she passed on. That is when Tom's Aunt Polly shows up and spoils the boys" character charade. Finally, Huck gets to Tom and finds out the details of ... ...

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... feels guilty about what he has done and how society makes Huck feel like what he has done is wrong. Huck also feels accountable when he writes a letter to Miss Watson to return Jim, but instead he ends up ripping the letter. Just before Huck tears up the letter, he says to himself, "All right, then, I'll go to hell" (162 ... ...

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