Literary Analysis: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1. The plot of this book is about a boy named Huck and a slave named Jim who are trying to make it to the free states in America. At first, Huck is living with his dad who sadly beast him every night, so Huck sets up a plan and runs away. When he runs away to an island, it is there where he meets Jim. From there they try to make it to the free states, but they have many conflicts along the way. From cops and con-men, to a family vendetta that Huck is accidently in the middle of. One conflict, even gets Jim imprisoned. So Huck must save him from a family's house, who happens to be Tom Sawyer's aunt and uncle who mistake Huck for Tom. Coincidentally, Tom happens to show up also, but he goes along with Huck's lie. With Tom in the picture, he consieves this elaborate plan to freeing Jim. It's successful, but in the process Tom gets his leg shot, so they have to go back and save them. In the end, Huck and Jim find out that Jim has been freed for two months, because his owner died and in the will sated he was free. This lady also wants to adopt Huck, but he says no, because he tired of being "civilized".



2. "technically" Twain stated that in fact there is no moral, theme or anything to the story. It is in fact, just a story for entertainment. To me though, I think the theme of the story is to know the real truth in the face of adversity. Huck was presented with many occasions where he could of easily turned Jim in because it was the "right thing" yo turn a slave in. He knew though, that in fact Jim was a real person and that even though was going to go to "hell". The right thing to do was to help set Jim free. People have to realize that there is the "society's truths and right and wrongs" and the "real truths and right and wrongs".


3. The tone of this book is free spirited and lively, with a undertone of seriousness.

• But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before.
• Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
• I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: All right, then, I'll GO to hell."

4. Five literary terms that helped me were;

1. Mood: Throughout the whole story, you had really mixed emotions, because you can go from laughing your head off because the vendetta of the two families was completly pointless, to sadness because you realize innocent children in the family are dying just because they think it's a "duty" to fight for their family. When really, the whole reason is pointless. It helped me learn, that Twain wanted to show very serious matters in a form of comedy so it wouldn't be taken too seriously. Hence, a great satire.
2.  Characterization: When reading the book and analyzing Huck's character, It's obvious that he is the "Gandolf" of the whole book. He questions ideas and situations in a way that nobody could ever imagined, and at such a young age too. "What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?"
3. Stereotypes: The book's big steroetype is the slavery, and the fact that everybody thinks that since you're a slave you're automatically not really a human being, and in fact a piece of property. Huck of course, sees it differently and slowly realizes that Jim is just like him and just because he's black doesn't mean he's not a person. "Good gracious! anybody hurt?"
   
   "No'm. Killed a nigger."
   
   "Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt. "
4. Falling Action: After Tom shows up in the book, the whole meaning and them of the book slowly dies down. With Tom in the picture, he starts to act childish and makes Huck revert back to being a follower instead of a leader. I feel like Twain did this just to make his statement about not having a meaning concrete. because in the end, Huck really learned not that much, because he reverted back to his old ways. 
5. Allusion: During the book, one of the character's quote Hamlet, but says it in the face that relates to him and how he looks at the world. "To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin,
   That makes calamity of so long life."