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A 3 page essay that discusses Huck's search for identity in Samuel Clemens' (Mark Twain's) novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Throughout the narrative, Huck tries on different persona. He attempts to be "sivilized" under the care of the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson. Journeying down the Mississippi in the company of a Jim, a runaway slave, Huck attempts to be the glamorous "robber" of Tom Sawyer's fantasy, but finds he that he cannot bring himself to con people in the manner demonstrated by the nefarious "aristocrats" who call themselves the "duke and the dauphin." In the course of his adventures, Huck tries to make sense of cultural mores and norms and finds that this is an impossible task. Ultimately, he rejects all "sivilizing" efforts in order to pursue a life where he can grow and develop according to his own ideas of right and wrong. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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world. Throughout the narrative, Huck tries on different persona. He attempts to be "sivilized" under the care of the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson. Journeying down the Mississippi
in the company of a Jim, a runaway slave, Huck attempts to be the glamorous "robber" of Tom Sawyers fantasy, but finds he that he cannot bring himself to con
people in the manner demonstrated by the nefarious "aristocrats" who call themselves the "duke and the dauphin." In the course of his adventures, Huck tries to make sense of
cultural mores and norms and finds that this is an impossible task. Ultimately, he rejects all "sivilizing" efforts in order to pursue a life where he can grow and
develop according to his own ideas of right and wrong. Throughout this work, Clemens contrasts situations in which Huck is forced to face the contradictory logic of what civilization
considers normal to the freedom that he enjoys on the raft with Jim. Time and again, Huck is confronted with supposedly "good" people who condone holding fellow human beings as
property. Southern culture portrays slaves as nothing more than chattel. Therefore, by helping Jim to escape slavery, Huck is presumably "stealing" from his rightful "owners," Miss Watson. In a pivotal
scene that demonstrates the main thematic thrust of the story, Huck writes to Miss Watson telling her of Jims whereabouts. After writing the letter, Huck records that he felt "good
and all washed clean of sin" (Clemens, 1995, p. 1339). But as Huck continues thinking, he remembers the times when Jim stood his watch, that is, the multiple times
when Jim was more like father to Huck than anyone else in his life. At this point, Huck definitively rejects social norms and says "All right, then, Ill go to
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