Huckleberry Finn

... rules. Faking his own death, Huck ran away. He knew he could not accept living under the conditions that he was for a long time. He ran away to Jackson’s Island and found Miss Watson’s runaway slave, Jim, there. He reject’s society’s values and does his own thing. After coming back from the Jackson’s Island, he meets Tom’s Aunt Sally. That is when he pretended to be Tom Sawyer. When Tom Sawyer came to visit Aunt Sally, he pretended to be Sid Sawyer. Huck, Tom, and Jim were all living with Aunt Sally. Huck went to school, once again accepting society. “At first I hated the school, but by and by I got so I could stand it. Whenever I got uncommon tired I played hooky, and the hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up. So the longer I went to school the easier it got to be. I was getting sort of used to the widow’s ways, too, and they warn’t so raspy on me”(24). Since Huck knew that he was going to be staying with Miss Watson and Widow Douglas, he made the best of it and did what he was needed to. At the end of the novel, Huck Finn rejects society and helps Jim escape from being a slave. Surprisingly, Tom helps Huck. At the beginning of the novel, Tom agreed with slavery. He saw slaves as property, not people. At the end of the novel, Tom rejects slavery and sees Jim as a person. He is completely against slavery and wants to abandon i...

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