By- Grace Beauchamp

Book By- Mark Twain

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Canoe

Characterization Thesis

Huckleberry Finn is savvy, powerful and determined. One way that Huck shows his savvy nature is by trying to sneak out: “I put out the light and scrambled out of the window on to the shed”(5.) Huck is sneaking out with Tom to create a band of robbers together. He had cleverly waited until the Widow and Ms.Watson have fallen asleep to leave. Huck is also seen as powerful in the novel because of the amount of money he has due to the money he found in a cave. Finally Huck comes across as determined to escape the world he is living in, to freedom and doing what he desires, as shown by leaving the widow and his father. I feel like the canoe represents Huck because he is strong willed like a canoe going down the river.

Clock

Authors style

Mark Twain uses realism and humor to write Huckleberry Finn. Twain uses racial slurs, which reveals how people used to treat black people.

Throughout Huckleberry Finn, Twain references how black people used to be treated. For instance, when Jim talks, Twain has made him sound uneducated. “What’s de use er makin’ up de camp fire to cook strawberries en sich truck? But you got a gun, hain’t you? Den we kin git sumfn better den strawberries” (49). This emphasizes that Jim is slave and not able to get the right education he needs. The way Jim talks comes across as uneducated. Tom and Huck togther create trouble, Twain uses humor as describing the trouble they get into. “It warn’t anything but a Sunday-school picnic, and only a primer-class at that.” Huck and Tom have accidently crashed a Sunday School pic-nic as they confused it for Arabs with gold and cattle. I compared his style of writing to a clock because it is timeless.

Dollar Bill

Conflict

The central conflict of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is person vs person, as Huck is sought after for his money.“You git me that money tomorrow- I want it” (24.) Huck's dad, the town drunk, kidnaps Huck, taking him away from the Widow to sit in a shed and do things for him until he gets the money.

This conflict builds a base for Huck's reason to run away and for his adventure to begin. I choose a dollar bill to show the conflict beacuse the money is the main problem.

Fishing Rod

Characterization Thesis

In the begging of the book Huck was told what to do and got drug around. As the book continued Huck ran away and was then on his own.

I choose a fishing rod for Huck in the second part of the book to express his survival skills. After running away Huck floated down the Mississippi River to the Illinois island. He then lived on his own and survived for a couple of days until meeting Jim, and creating a stable life for them both.“This place was a tolerable long, steep hill or ridge about forty foot high. We had a rough time getting to the top, the sides was so steep and the bushes so thick. We tramped and clumb around all over it, and by-and-by a good big cavern in the rock, most up to the top on the side towards Illinois. The cavern was as big as two or three rooms bunched together, and Jim could stand up straight in it. It was cool in there” (56.) This quote relates to a fishing rod because it shows how they found shelter to survive. They also used a fishing rod to fish for food that also keeps them alive.

American Flag

Thematic Statement

Many types of people long to be free. Freedom can be found in maturity and adventure.

Twain expresses different types of freedom throughout the novel. He makes it clear that people can long to be free, can be free together, but have nothing in common in the since of how or why they got there. “Well, one night I creeps to de do’ pooty late, en de do’ warn’t quite shet, en I hear old missus tell de widder she gwyne to sell me down to Orleans, but she didn’ want to, but she could git eight hundred dollars for me, en it ‘uz sich a big stack o’ money she couldn't’ resis" (51.) Jim has come to the same place as Huck because he didn't want to get shipped off to New Orleans and this was his only other chance of freedom. I used an American flag because America is a free country.

Book Review

I love the idea of orderly civilization vs freedom in the first part of Huckleberry Finn.“Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn’t. She said it was a mean practice and wasn’t clean, and I must try to not do it any more" (2-3.) This is an Example of the widow trying to civilize Huck. I would recommend this book.

Adventures

Life lessons

Funny