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A 5 page paper that addresses the theme of escape and how it is used, defined and counterbalanced among the characters in Mark Twain's novel. Particular attention is paid to the characters of Huck Finn and Jim, who represent various themes of escape in regards to slavery. This is contrasted (counterbalanced) to representatives of the white and slave societies in the novel, with Huck and Jim both representing both of those cultures and the political voices within them. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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File: D0_Huckfinn.doc
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voice has multiple ethnic definitions (Lindsey, et al. 36(8)). His escape and the escape he orchestrates for Jim are a personal escape from the stifling confines of the
"sivilized" world that caused/causes inhumanity (Clemens, Chapter I, etext). Twain accomplishes this through a combined black and white voice, and uses Hucks references to escaping go beyond that voice
to reflect injustice. Hucks feelings are so deep because he feels and is enslaved throughout the story, and his response to being locked up is both physical and emotional.
This is in direct contrast to the comfortable characters in the story. This duality and counterbalancing of feeling and purpose affect Huck and other characters throughout the novel,
and the dual desires of being penned up and free are its continually contrasting themes. Shelley Fisher Fishkin wrote Was Huck Black? to outline her arguments in support of her
theory based on Twains use of the black voice in Huckleberry Finn. In many ways, Huck Finn was black, at least insofar as being black embodies all of the
voices of those who are not content to sit back, dream about making changes, but not act upon them--like the character of Tom Sawyer. Clemens writes: "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 couldnt stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and
was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go
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