Huck Finn Post #2

   Huckleberry Finn and Jim have a very close relationship, like a father son relationship. Someone would describe a father being protective of his son. Father would like to protect his son from the ugly things in the world. To protect the innocence and keep a child light on their feet a father would sheil their son. Jim does this to Huck a lot. "I didn't look at him. Jim throwed some old rags over him, but he needn't done it (Twain 57);" Jim puts the rags over the dead mans face so cover up the severity of the gruesomness. Since Huck is just a young boy he should'nt have to wittness death and things as awful death. What Jim does is something a father would do for their son.
     There is no doubt in anyones mind that Huck is the definition of immature. In every relationship theres always a mature one and an immature one. Huck is immature, Jim is mature. Like a father Jim looks out for Huck and like a son Huck doesn't pay much attention to Jim. Huck doesn't listen to him much, he ignores him and does what he wants. When Huck wants to go on the wreck that gets them both in loads of trouble. "But Jim was dead against it at first. He says:I doan want to go fool'n 'long er no wrack (71)." Jim was trying to keep Huck from doing something stupid from doing something immature. Like a mature father looks out for his son.

Huck Finn post 1

    In the novel Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain Huck's personality is immediatly determined. Huckleberry Finn is a child with no family except for the widow he lives with. Being short a mother and a father it would be expected that Huckleberry Finn would be a messed up kid. However he is actually decent, he makes mistakes like every other person. The fact that he accepts the widow as a mother figure is sign that he is accepting and compassionate. "The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of another names, too, but she never meant no harm by it" (6 Twain). Huckleberry Finn didn't mind that she treated him like a son. The fact that he didn't mind shows that he is a compassionate person.
     Huckleberry Finn is not only a compassionate person but very superstisious. All of the little gimicks and things that cause good and or bad luck Huck highly believes in. "There was a cross in the left boot-heel made with big nails, to keep off the devil" (25). In just that one sentence there are three superstisions. Huckleberry Finn is also a very stubborn person but he doesnt neccesarily push things. "After breakfast I wanted to talk about the dead man and guess out how he come to be killed, but Jim didn't want to" (75). He wanted to talk about how the man died but he didn't push it with Jim. Huck wants to and keeps thinking and thinking. Overall Huckleberry Finn is an extrodinary charecter in the American literature world.