Huckleberry Finn Essay Research Paper Your Name

Huckleberry Finn Essay, Research Paper

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Huckleberry Finn

Characters

Huckleberry Finn – (narrator and protagonist) nickname is Huck. Huck is fourteen years old, his dad is a drunk. He lives in St. Petersburg, Missouri. Later kidnapped by father, Pap, and taken away. Huck then fakes his own death to escape. He later meets Jim on Jackson’s Island.

Jim – Jim was a slave who escaped from his owner Miss Watson, who was considering selling him. He meets up with Huck on Jackson’s Island. They then became friends and traveled around together, helping one another achieve their goals. Jim left his wife and two children. Huck learns a lot from Jim because he is very morally strong person, and Huck realizes that he is a very good person, even though he is black.

Tom Sawyer – Huck’s best friend. They are basically the same person, the have the same moral’s and basically the same personality. Tom also is the protagonist of a book, which is a story about him, Tom Sawyer.

Dauphin and The Duke – These two can basically be seen as one character, they basically share a brain. The Duke is supposed to be somewhere around 30 years old. Dauphin is also referred to as “The King.” The two got the reputation of being bad when they separated a slave family, and sold Jim.

Pap – (Huck’s father) Huck ran away from his father because he is the town drunk, and also kidnapped him and took him away. His father dresses like a scrub, he where’s dirty clothes, and doesn’t bother to change them. His father is also illiterate, which just adds to Huck’s huge embarrassing failure of a father. Huck fakes his death and runs away from his “Pap.”

Judge Thatcher – The Judge is in charge of the money that Tom and Huck won. (that happened at the end of Tom Sawyer) When Pap comes back to town, he signs all the money over to Judge and his daughter, Bessie.

Aunt Polly – She is Tom’s legal guardian and his Aunt. She becomes a important character at the end of the book when she has to identify Tom and Huck.

Widow Douglass and Miss Watson – Adopted Huck and attempted to sell Jim, they both ended up running away.

Author, Title, and Setting

The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, by Mark Twain, is a very interesting book about the adventures of Huck, Jim and his friend Tom. The adventures mainly take place along the Mississippi River, sometimes on a raft, other times along the bank. They want to reach Cairo, where they want to board a steamship up the Ohio and into the free states, where Jim can be a free slave. They come across many southerners who want to start trouble with them, and start many controversies. They also have many problems on the trip, like the weather, animals, and the water for instance. “we couldn’t take the raft upstream” (Jim, page 97).

Plot

The story basically starts from the ending of Tom Sawyer, they got the gold from the robbers, which gave them each around $6,000. They then put this money in the hands of Judge Thatcher. Huck and Tom later signed the money over to the judge, because Huck’s drunk of a father came back to town. In the beginning Huck lived with Widow Douglass and her sister, who were attempting to make Huck very nice and civilized. He then became tired of sitting in the house and being civilized, and put on his old ragged clothes and left. Later in the story Tom and Huck were walking around a house, where Jim was a slave, and one of them fell and made a noise. Jim talked with them and they told him to say it was witches. Jim later became a sort of celebrity for this, because he enjoyed telling the stories to everyone. Tom and Huck then meet up with a couple of their friends and set sail to the cave, where Tom wants to set up a band of robber’s that he wants to call “Tom Sawyer’s Gang.” The town gets word that someone’s body has been found in the river, and by the look of the person, who was wearing ragged clothes and very dirty, was said to be Huck’s father. Huck relieved at first starts to doubt everyone about his fathers death. Huck starts adjusting to his new life, in fact is starting to do better in school. Pap does come back, and in fact was not dead, and threatens Huck because he does not want him to be the first person in his family to be able to read. Huck’s father goes into yet another drinking binge and one day kidnaps Huck and takes him away. Huck then fakes his death to get away, which he did very well. “GIT up! What you ‘bout?” (Pap, page 38). Later Huck awaits for the moon to rise, at that time he plans to take off for his destination, Jackson’s Island, but accidentally he falls asleep. He later wakes up to see Pap row by. Huck carefully sees him and doesn’t make a noise, then he slowly sets off to Jackson’s Island carefully not to be seen. Later when Huck is at Jackson’s Island, he sees a boat pass by with Pap and many of his friends on board, all of whom are discussing the murder. They shoot cannon over to the Island sending mercury filled loaves of bread hoping Huck will eat it and they will find his dead corpse rinsed up on shore from being poisoned. Huck is careful not to be seen, and eats it. Huck is then found by a man, who thankfully called off the dogs. Huck lies to him and says his name is George Jackson. Then he takes Huck to a house, which he said was his, and gets hel

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