Huck Finn
...r his mother died. He has a father but it’s as though he didn’t because he is never around, being away for months at a time and is always drunk. He is only interested in his son for his six thousand dollar fortune. Huck has been left with Widow Douglas who imposes manners upon him like table manners, being clean, going to school, and to church. Huck does not want to be civilized by Widow Douglas, or be deprived from his freedom by living with his drunken father in a cabin. This is the reason why Huck seeks his freedom and takes off on a long journey down the Mississippi River with Jim. Jim on the other hand is a slave. He runs off because he is being accused of a murder and unites with Huck on the long journey to both of their freedoms. Jim wants to be a free man, raise money, and then buy his family so they can all be free. The central theme of freedom is represented upon both Huck and Jim. There are themes in the novel that represent freedom. The theme is obvious as it is, being that they both run away together because they share a common goal of being free of whatever it may be. However, there are symbols throughout the story that represent and enforce the theme of freedom. The raft for one represents freedom and independence. That is what Huck and Jim are relying on to get to their destination and be free. They float along on the river, by themselves which is already beginning to represent freedom. The Mississippi river represents life and freedom. It represents the ability to live free from any worries and to live the way they want to live without being owned by anybody in the case of Jim, or not being under the direct supervision of an anal guardian or a ruthless father in Huck’s case. Along the way on the Mississippi they encounter some dense fog. The fog represents the multifaceted problems that sometimes make it difficult to achieve life’s goals that one has in mind. It represents the many obstacles that Huck and Jim are going to face on their voyage to freedom. Huck and Jim both face obstacles that are difficult. Oftentimes, they were so difficult that it seemed like Huck and Jim would never reach freedom however they stayed strong and overcame all obstacles in their way to finally be free in the end. One obvious obstacle is the fact that Jim is a runaway slave. Many times throughout the book Huck has to lie, as he does so often, and say that it is his slave so that Jim will not be arrested and taken back to its rightful owner. Probably the biggest obstacle they face is the King and the Duke. Two men fakers, who claim to be a king and a duke. They join Huck and Jim on the voyage and make stops in villages to make cheap presentation and steal the people out of their money. They go to the extent of stopping at a nearby village and claiming that he is the brother of a deceased person who is rich of course. He claims to have come from England and is the brother of the deceased. H...