The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain - 1419 Words

â€Å"HUCKLEBERRY FINN† by MARK TWAIN The protagonist of Huckleberry Finn is the most remarkable character Mark Twain created in all his writings. Huck is both a symbol of the freedom of the natural man and an individual creature with a conscience and a basic sense of decency that are supposed to be the products of civilization. He is also a wild teenager who is at odds with society, religion, work, and even his own father, yet the reader never questions that Huck is a sensitive, loving human being who is in many respects superior to the figures of adult authority that try to surround him. For these reasons, Huck finds his closest friendships with boys his own age like Tom Sawyer or with outcasts from the society of his elders like the†¦show more content†¦Yet there is ample evidence of Huck’s basic sense of decency, or rather shame, at his resemblance to his non-account father. Huck even accepts the Widow’s forging religious Providence in spite of his low self-esteem: I judged I could see that there was two Providences, and a poor chap would stand considerable show with the widow’s Providence, but if Miss Watson’s got him there warn’t no help for him any more. I thought it all out, and reckoned I would belong to the Widow’s if he wanted me, though I couldn’t make out how he was a-going to be any better off then than what he was before, seeing I was so ignorant, and so kind of low-down and ornery. Huck is ignorant in the sense of lacking a formal education, but â€Å"low-down and ornery† is the characterization of his father that Huck sees reflected in himself whenever he fidgets in front of a mirror. In fact, Huck’s greatest virtue is his absolute honesty in his self-examination, which overlooks his fundamental decency and compassion. Huck is actually very different from his father, who is bigoted and ill-tempered, as becomes apparent when Pap shows up to reclaim Huck and the money. Huck probably would be happier in the wild state in which he lives with his father after the latter abducts him, however. We sense this is the scenes of his self-sufficient existence on the island after he