by Elizabeth Lord

Created on: July 15, 2008

Imagine writing a story that captures people of all ages, and it still taught in the school system today. What would it be like to actually be alive during that time, and to endure the hardship? Would you consider back then more difficult than it is now? In fact what similarities are there that you can come up with on short notice? Well, I am sure you could come up with something, but I also know that there will be more differences than similarities that will come to your mind because that is how us humans think. We think pesimistically rather than optimistically. Huckleberry Finn went through a lot growing up, but he somehow was a content person because of it.

Huckelberry Finn lives with the Widow Douglas who has strived to do everything she can to get him civlized into society. However, he is not open to that at all, which is where all these adventures take place.

You see, Huckelberry Finn's father is a criminal and a town drunk. He finds out about the money that Huck and Tom found in their first set of adventures and he comes looking to retrieve it, and is willing to destroy anyone who comes his way, but does not succeed. Somewho in the midst of this process, he gains custody of his son, since he is the legal guardian, but treats him horrendously. He decides plan out his fake death, so that his dad thinks he is dead, and will leave him alone. Once that is accomplished, which his dad falls for it, he is free to travel anywhere he wants to, whether it is Missippi or Alabama withouth any rules to follow because when he lived with Douglas, he had to go to school, so he could get a good job, but he didn't see the point of it, so he ran away.

He runs into Jim at the beginning of his journey. You see Jim was a slave under Douglas who ran away that Huck becomes great friends with, so they can make a better life for themselves. They travel day and night up and down the Mississippi River together sightseeing and more than anything going as north as possible, so Jim is free from slavery in the south.

Since Jim is a slave, and it is illegal to runaway, Huck has to maintain a strong bond with him as friends. They encounter all sorts of people from all walks of life, but somehow they survive through the circumstances.

The most interesting characters that Jim and Huckleberry Finn meet are The Duke and the Dauphin. They are a colorful set of indivdiduals that come across as an act of their own. These two people who travel from town to town lying to others to earn money, which

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