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Huckleberry Finn


man and man vs. society. The man vs. man conflict is showed with Pap and his son Huck, Huck is constantly beat and is not taken care of at all, he does not know manners and is in trouble until he gets help. Man vs. society is shown with Jim vs. Racism, during this time African- Americans were used as slaves and Jim was a slave. He escaped to save his family because he was going to get sold. .
             Characters.
             4. Major Characters.
             -Huckleberry Finn: The protagonist and narrator of the novel. Huck is the thirteen-year-old son of the local drunk of St. Petersburg, Missouri, a town on the Mississippi River. Frequently forced to survive on his own mind and always a bit of an outsider, Huck is thoughtful, intelligent (though uneducated), and willing to come to his own conclusions about important matters, even if these conclusions disagree with society's norms. Nevertheless, Huck is still a boy, and is influenced by others, particularly by his imaginative friend, Tom and Jim. .
             -Tom Sawyer: Huck's friend he is imaginative, dominating, and is known for his wild plans. Tom is everything that Huck is not. Tom's stubborn confidence on the authorities leads him to acts of unbelievable foolishness and shocking cruelty. His stiff loyalty to society's conventions aligns Tom with the "sivilizing" forces that Huck learns to see through and gradually abandons.
             -Jim: One of Miss Watson's household slaves. Jim is superstitious, but he is also intelligent, useful, and more of an adult than anyone else in the novel. Jim's frequent acts of unselfishness, his longing for his family, and his friendship with both Huck and Tom demonstrate to Huck that humanity has nothing to do with race. Because Jim is a black man and a runaway slave, he is at the pity of almost all the other characters in the novel and is often forced into ridiculous and humiliating situations.
             -Pap: Huck's father, the town drunk. Pap is a wreck when he appears at the beginning of the novel, with disgusting, ghostlike white skin and tattered clothes.


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