The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a continuation of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It's plot is near the Mississippi River in the Missouri, exactly where the adventures of Tom Sawyer happened, only probably few months later. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, all his adventures happen near the Mississippi River, on a raft, however not necessarily near the Missouri itself. Huck has his biggest adventure with his friend Jim.


Unlike Tom Sawyer, Huck is poor, but sweet in my opinion, even though he is not that well brought up, nor educated. At the end of the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, he is finally given a home with a widow, whose life he saved in his previous adventure. But because he is so much used to running in the wild, being brought in a rich family is too much for him. And because he got away, he ended up locked up in a shed by his own drunk father. Huck was all the time trying to run away from his father, but in fact he was doing the totally opposite. His dad was so drunk once that he almost killed Huck in his sleep. Huck had enough of this, and who saw no chance of improvement for his dad decided to run away. He ran away, and made it look like he was murdered with only a few things to help him:

• a piece of saw without a handle. Huck's dad would keep all the sharp things hidden so Huck wouldn't be getting ideas to run away. Once again Huck outsmarted him.
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• A pig which he hunted down and killed so it would look like he was murdered himself.
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• A piece of log and canoe which would help him get away by the Mississippi River. Also he had dust that helped him cover his tracks where he had sawn the floor.
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• His intelligence and skills.

What I find amazing is that with only few of those instruments I just mentioned, Huck had managed to go far. Nowadays we are more likely to take a train than a canoe, and a table to smash the door. But Huck didn't have these things in the hut, nor at his time, so it was more complicated. Life was more complicated in general at that time, such as poverty, racism etc.
In the middle of his journey Huck met his friend Jim, who at that time people called niggers, meaning black boy. His mother thought that she could become rich if she sold him for slavery, and he ran away. Now Huck was his only friend. They had only few things with them for survival:

• a raft
• some food
• their intelligence
• each other

However Jim's adventures ended when he got caught. He was finally found. Huck was very moved when Jim told him he was the only friend he had left. He of course wanted to find as he called it 'his nigger'. He met Tom Sawyer on the way, but what surprises me is that Tom Sawyer knew all the time Jim was a free nigger, meaning he couldn't be put into slavery. This means Huck and Tom went through all kind of dangers for nothing. And all because Tom searched for an adventure!


Like I said in my previous blog, I find it interesting how Mark Twain wrote his stories using his experience as a young boy. Mark Twain wrote many other books such as: A Tramp Aboard, Life on the Mississippi and many others. Mark Twain will be a famous writer of all times.

"Oh Huck, you the only friend Jim has got!"
Jim

Oh Ain't lovely to be free? 

Huckleberry Finn in legos!