It is now the end of Huck Finn,
where many of the problems are not solved and character development in many
characters is never fully reached. What I mean by this is that, for example, Tom
doesn’t mature at all. He remains immature, constantly looking for a game. He
uses Jim as a toy in his “game” to set Jim “free,” who we soon realize has
technically been free for two months. As for the adults, they too never truly
become responsible. After all, Aunt Sally isn’t even responsible enough to
recognize her own nephew. In addition to this, the adults actually want to hang
Jim at the end of the novel until they realize that he helped in the nursing of
helping Tom heal from the bullet wound. These adults want to kill an innocent
man until they learn he has more value in life then just a slave. They are
truly ignorant and are not socially responsible, at least not enough to decide
the fate of a man. Now finally the last character to talk about, Huck. At the
end of the novel, Huck ultimately gives up on his society. He does not care
what the people of his society think, he will set Jim free. Even after this,
after Jim is a free man, the aunt wishes to attempt to civilize Huck once again.
Huck refuses to become “sivilized” and does not care what the people think, it
is like he sees being civilized as his society’s opinion, an opinion he definitely
does not care about.
1 comment:
I feel like your blog post is like the opposite of Gertie's kind of!!! I do agree with everything you said though even though I didn't necessarily think of it in such a cynical way while I was actually reading it. Tom doesn't truly care about Jim all that much, it really is just another adventure. The adults don't care about Jim either, they're basically just going with the flow. Huck actually grew throughout the whole book and learned that the rest of the world didn't grow while he was gone, and now he has the tools to continue on without them. ~yay~
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