Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn is a fictional character by Samuel Clements who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer set around 1845 and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn set around 1835-1845, although taking place after The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Huck is 12-13 years old and during the Chapter 17 he’s a year older. Huck also narrates Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective, two shorter sequels to the first two book.

Huckleberry ‘’Huck’’ Finn is the son of the town’s vagrant drunkard. ‘’Pap’’ Finn.

Jim who is a slave in the book ran away from the Widow Douglas because he happened to overheard Miss Watson  is planning to sell him for 800$, while he was running away he happened to met Huck who is suppose to be dead in an island.

Huck lives the life of a destitute vagabond. The author metaphorically names him ‘’The juvenile pariah of the village’’ and describe Huck as ‘’Idle’’, and lawless and vulgar, and bad, ‘’Qualities for which he was admired by all the children in the village, although their mothers ‘’Cordially hated and dreaded’’ him.

His appearance is described in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

He wears the clothes of full grown men which he probably received as charity, and as Twain describes him, ‘’He was fluttering with rags.’’ He has a torn broken hat and his trousers and supported with only one suspender.

Tom’s Aunt Polly calls Huck a poor motherless thing in a book.

One day Huck confesses to Tom that he remembers his family relentless fighting that only abated with her death.

Huck has a carefree life free from societal norms or rules, stealing foods and barrowing boats and cigars. Due to his unconventional childhood, Huck has received almost no education.

Huck is adopted by the Widow Douglas and sent him to school in return for saving her life.

Huck Finn dad show up at the beginning of the book of Huckleberry Finn and forcibly takes his son to live with him.

Huck is Tom Sawyer’s closest friend.

The character of Huck Finn is based on Tom Blankenship, the real-life son of a sawmill laborer and sometime drunkard named Woodson Blankenship, who live in a ramshackle house near the Mississippi River behind the house where the author grew up in Hannibal Missouri.

Twain mentions his childhood friend Tom Blankenship as the inspiration for creating Huckleberry Finn in his autobiography.

Huck’s adventure is in part based on an incident that happened to Tom Blankenship’s eldest sibling, his brother Benson, a teenage fisherman who had his own skiff.

Twain ‘’Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’’. The ultimate truth seems to have passed in to unknowable realm, leaving us only with Twain’s fiction.

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