Huck Finn by Mark Twain :: Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

In the story huckabackleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the river symbolizes freedom. huckaback goes on the river to tucker free from becoming polish and to tie remote from his titmouse and Jim wonts the river to get freed from slavery. Also the king and the duke use it to escape from angry towns. Any time they are in nark when they get on the river they are no longer in trouble.Huck gets a raft to go down the river to get away from his pap and so he is no longer living in civilization. He didnt like sleeping in a bed and reading books, Huck says, I didnt see how Id ever got to like it so well at the widows, where you had to wash, and eat on a plate, and comb up, and go to bed and get up regular, and forever bothering over a book and have senior Miss Watson pecking at you all the time (1368).Then when Huck intellection his dad was going to kill him he knew he had to leave thither too. So he got a canoe and raft and went down the river. When he was on the river he was saf e and getting free from his pap and no longer apprehensioned getting hurt by him.Jim is afraid of being sell by Widow Douglas so he runs away and is trying to get freed from slavery. He also goes down the river with Huck and uses it as his path to freedom. Whenever he is on the river he is safe. When Jim is being chased he can continuously get away on the river. He is also not hardened like a slave on the raft and doesnt have to fear being sold. The King and the Duke get in trouble many propagation by scamming different towns to get money by lying and belie to be people they really arent. Every time they get away by going on the river and are free on it. When they last get caught they are on land, away from the freedom of the river.