Create your own topic that builds on one of the episodes in the book that most caught your imagination. You might like to say how it parallels something in your own life and experience.
One of the most captivating moments through-out my reading of Twain’s ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ is during Huck’s encounter with Jim on Jackson Island. For me this is one of the most significant moments within the book as it is the initial scene where Huck appreciates Jim’s presence as an equal. I would like to discuss just how potent the ramifications of this meeting is and the parallels it has within our own society today. Firstly I would like to note that the beginning of Huck and Jim’s relationship allows for the conventional ideologies of the novels context to be challenged. This challenging of ideologies creates a basis for the entire novel to explore notions of morality and the pursuit of justice. In addition I believe that Huck and Jim’s friendship is a motif for the greater sense of societal equality and stands as models for what both our society and their own should strive to achieve. Branching off this image of Huck and Jim being models for our own society, one of the most prevalent thoughts I have while reading Twain’s seminal novel is that if as a society we treat each other in the same respect Huck treats Jim, as a whole we would experience a much greater sense of unity and take the first step in moving towards a brighter future.
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