Huckleberry Finn Character Analysis Essay

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At the start of the book the main protagonist of the story, Huckleberry Finn, is shown to act his age. He is a child who doesn’t fully understand the way things work and the things that go on around him, but he does know somethings that a kid his age wouldn’t normally know. An example in the book would be how, when he hears about his dad being found dead in a river. However, Huck knows that it wasn’t his father. According to him, “I knowed mighty well that a drownded man don’t float on his back, but on his face”. (pg. 12) Though at the same time, he runs around the town with Tom Sawyer’s gang, looting and stealing from Arabs and Spaniards, when really he is just taking food from a class of Sunday school kids. He is very knowledgable, but at the same time he is very superstitious and not very mature. Though he is very superstitious, he is not very religious. Several times he talks about how he doesn’t listen to what the widow, Huck’s caretaker, tells him about religion and prayer. He even says early in the story, after trying to summon a genie, “So then I judged that all the stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer’s lies. I reckoned he believed in the Arabs and the elephants, but as for me I think different. It had …show more content…
When Huck and Jim first set off on the raft, Huck is expecting it to be a simple trip down the river, but they both soon encounter obstacles that test their strength and resolve. Their first encounter with trouble is when they go to look around a wrecked steamboat. They go in and find two criminal about to kill a man. Huck then gets people to come to the steamboat and capture the criminals, but the criminals and the innocent man both end up drowning, due to the steamboat sinking into the river. As Huck and Jim watch the steamboat go down, Huck talks about how he felt bad for all of the men on that boat, even the

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