Huck "Dragonberry" Finn

The novel "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain expresses many impressions of people through the eyes of a child. Huck is a kid around the age of 10 or 11. He has some education and has considerable background settled through Mark Twain's, " The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." The things that play a major role in the novel  are education, racism, and the river which represents the journey that Huck and Jim, who is the slave that is running from his rightful master to work in the North so that he may buy his family from slavery, take up the river.

The journey tests Huck's intellect as he learns new things and applies that which he knows. Throughout their travels we see Huck mature and grow up from his childish ways as he learns the morals of society. Huck makes decisions from his experiences, sense of logic, and his developing sense of morality. 

Another thing we notice is how Huck treats Jim and Jim's character in the novel. Huck treats Jim as he was raised too, which is pretty stereotypical and racist. However, as he continues to hurt Jim, Huck realizes the errors of his ways. As the novel progresses. Huck's treatment of Jim  shifts from stereotypical to full of moral sense when they meet the con artists on their journey. The action by the con artists, through Huck's eyes, make Huck feel ashamed of humans. This mainly refers to white people. As a contrast to this, Twain makes Jim, the black runaway slave, seem as if he with his knowledge and superstitions, is more caring and "human" than all the controversial and hypocritical white people. This is shown especially when Jim cries over beating his daughter for no reason when she had actually gone deaf of scarlet fever and he thought she was ignoring him. 

The reason that both Huck and Jim runaway is to get freedom. Huck wants to escape his abusive father, and Jim wanted to be free. However, they realize that even though they are on the path to freedom, the world around them is anything but safe. What with floods, robbers, murders, con artists, etc.. they learn that the world is anything but safe. In fact, they are ironically still surrounded by the dangers that they are attempting to escape. 

These are things that I have picked up while reading Huck Finn. Though, I believe that the kid is crazy, he has a great deal more intellect than most of the people. I can't say that I look forward to the rest of the book, but I do look forward to Huck's antics.