Huck Finn Reflection
In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain there are many components, like characters and theme that relate to my final project position statement. My position statement is a quote by Jack Kerouac and who said, “This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re suppose to do.” In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn both Jim and Huck show this statement by their actions and words. Also one of the many themes in the classic novel is society, which also relates to the position statement because you have to ignore society and do your own thing, not what the society wants you to do. Huck, Jim, and the society all relate to my position statement that everybody is doing what they think they are suppose to be doing.
Huck shows many characteristics that display the idea of the position statement of, “This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re suppose to do.” In the novel Huck doesn’t do what other people want him to do, he does what he thinks he is suppose to be doing in the world. Essentially he is doing his own thing with his life, he isn’t doing what everybody else does, he is doing his own thing. The biggest thing that Huck decided to do was run away. He decided that that’s what he was suppose to do. “ I toted up a load, and went back and set down on the bow of the skiff to rest. I thought it all over, and I reckoned I would walk off with the gun and some lines, and take to the woods when I run away. I guessed I wouldn't stay in one place, but just tramp right across the country, mostly night times, and hunt and fish to keep alive, and so get so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn't ever find me any more.” (26) This is a quote from Huck about what he was planning on doing after he ran away. In this quote he lays out what he hopes he would do for the rest of his life. Huck shows what he thinks he is suppose to do in life. He is making his own path in life, he isn’t following in anyone else's footsteps, he’s doing what he wants to do and what he thinks he is suppose to do.
Another character in The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn that displays characteristics of my final position statement of, “This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re suppose to do,” is Jim. Jim is a runaway slave that unexpectedly meets up with Huck and they travel the river together throughout the book. Like Huck Jim also creates his own path in life, doing what he wants to do in his life and not what other people want him to do. Jim ran away from his owner to go find freedom. He didn’t want to live as a slave, working in bad conditions for little pay, he wanted to be a free man. On the river Jim and Huck became very good friends, and often shared their feelings to each other. One day Jim told Huck what he wished to do someday in his life when he became free. “He was saying how the first thing he would do when he got to a free State he would go to saving up money and never spend a single cent, and when he got enough he would buy his wife, which was owned on a farm close to near where Miss Watson lived; and then they would both work to buy the two children, and if their master wouldn’t sell them, they’d hire an Ab’litionist to go and steal them.” (82) Here Jim is saying what he would do once he got free. He would do what he thinks he is suppose to do which is runaway to a free state and then buy his family back.
Lastly one of the themes in The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn is society. The society is constantly trying to shape people, although my position statement says that everyone should be doing what they think they are suppose to be doing not what everyone else thinks they are suppose to be doing. Huck and Jim live in a society where there are lots of rules and traditions and what people consider to be normal. The society is constantly trying to make them think a certain way and act a certain way. Although Huck and Jim don’t let the society influence them, and instead they do their own things disregarding what the society thinks. One person in particular who tries to change Huck is the widow Douglas. “The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out.” (5) This is when Huck is talking about how widow Douglas is trying to “sivilize” him and how he doesn’t like it. This is showing the society, which is widow douglas in this scenario trying to influence Huck, but it’s not working very well since Huck doesn’t like it. The society is constantly trying to shape the way people think and act although Huck and Jim ignore the society and do what they think they are suppose to do in life just like my position statement says.
In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Jim and Huck show characteristics that go along with my position statement of “This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re suppose to do,”. The theme of society is big in the novel, and how society tries to influence your life. Although Jim and Huck don’t let the society influence them.
In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain there are many components, like characters and theme that relate to my final project position statement. My position statement is a quote by Jack Kerouac and who said, “This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re suppose to do.” In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn both Jim and Huck show this statement by their actions and words. Also one of the many themes in the classic novel is society, which also relates to the position statement because you have to ignore society and do your own thing, not what the society wants you to do. Huck, Jim, and the society all relate to my position statement that everybody is doing what they think they are suppose to be doing.
Huck shows many characteristics that display the idea of the position statement of, “This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re suppose to do.” In the novel Huck doesn’t do what other people want him to do, he does what he thinks he is suppose to be doing in the world. Essentially he is doing his own thing with his life, he isn’t doing what everybody else does, he is doing his own thing. The biggest thing that Huck decided to do was run away. He decided that that’s what he was suppose to do. “ I toted up a load, and went back and set down on the bow of the skiff to rest. I thought it all over, and I reckoned I would walk off with the gun and some lines, and take to the woods when I run away. I guessed I wouldn't stay in one place, but just tramp right across the country, mostly night times, and hunt and fish to keep alive, and so get so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn't ever find me any more.” (26) This is a quote from Huck about what he was planning on doing after he ran away. In this quote he lays out what he hopes he would do for the rest of his life. Huck shows what he thinks he is suppose to do in life. He is making his own path in life, he isn’t following in anyone else's footsteps, he’s doing what he wants to do and what he thinks he is suppose to do.
Another character in The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn that displays characteristics of my final position statement of, “This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re suppose to do,” is Jim. Jim is a runaway slave that unexpectedly meets up with Huck and they travel the river together throughout the book. Like Huck Jim also creates his own path in life, doing what he wants to do in his life and not what other people want him to do. Jim ran away from his owner to go find freedom. He didn’t want to live as a slave, working in bad conditions for little pay, he wanted to be a free man. On the river Jim and Huck became very good friends, and often shared their feelings to each other. One day Jim told Huck what he wished to do someday in his life when he became free. “He was saying how the first thing he would do when he got to a free State he would go to saving up money and never spend a single cent, and when he got enough he would buy his wife, which was owned on a farm close to near where Miss Watson lived; and then they would both work to buy the two children, and if their master wouldn’t sell them, they’d hire an Ab’litionist to go and steal them.” (82) Here Jim is saying what he would do once he got free. He would do what he thinks he is suppose to do which is runaway to a free state and then buy his family back.
Lastly one of the themes in The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn is society. The society is constantly trying to shape people, although my position statement says that everyone should be doing what they think they are suppose to be doing not what everyone else thinks they are suppose to be doing. Huck and Jim live in a society where there are lots of rules and traditions and what people consider to be normal. The society is constantly trying to make them think a certain way and act a certain way. Although Huck and Jim don’t let the society influence them, and instead they do their own things disregarding what the society thinks. One person in particular who tries to change Huck is the widow Douglas. “The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out.” (5) This is when Huck is talking about how widow Douglas is trying to “sivilize” him and how he doesn’t like it. This is showing the society, which is widow douglas in this scenario trying to influence Huck, but it’s not working very well since Huck doesn’t like it. The society is constantly trying to shape the way people think and act although Huck and Jim ignore the society and do what they think they are suppose to do in life just like my position statement says.
In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Jim and Huck show characteristics that go along with my position statement of “This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re suppose to do,”. The theme of society is big in the novel, and how society tries to influence your life. Although Jim and Huck don’t let the society influence them.