Tuesday, December 18, 2007
hucks life in the raft is more comfortable
I think that life on the raft for Huck appealed to him more in a lot of ways. It could have appealed to him more because it could have reminded him of his life before he began to live with the widow/his dad. His life before town life was a life without rules, and a life of doing whatever he felt like doing. Which is kind of like what he is doing now, he’s going down south with Jim, and he doesn’t really have any good reason in his head to go back. His life on the raft isn’t very private at times, but it is more private then his life in the town. People are always interrupting his life in the town; he always has to worry about getting trouble. He always has to sneak around town, trying not to get caught, like when he was sneaking off to go meet Sawyer to discuss the sawyer gang. He had to worry about one of the widows “niggers” catching him, him and tom. He had to worry about coming back to. On the river he can be wherever he wants, whenever he wants, at least now that he is far away enough from the town he was living in.
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I definatley agree with you. Huck does enjoy the river life, and he seems to be alot less cramped on the river. Also I think that Huck did like the land a little to. He was very open to being on land, the things on land didn't rub off on him to well though. He did like on the other hand the book like Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.
I agree with you. Back home, Huck's life was very stressful and sorrounded by rules he had to follow. The widow, Ms.Watson and his dad both made Huck's not live a life of a young boy but a life of an adult. He had to take care of himself all the time especially since his dad was never home.
But life on the raft was very care-free and comfotable for him. He has no worries and could feel right at home with Jim. He could express anything he wanted and did not have to follow any rules he didnt want to follow.
I agree with this thesis, which says that Huck's life on the raft is more comfortable. In the book, Huck says that "there warn't no home like a raft" and he describes it as "cramped up and smothery." However, when he says "cramped up and smothery," he means this figureatively and is an escape from the rigorous discipline of everyday life that he experienced with Mrs. Watson and the Widow. He doesn't have to obey by the rules and he can relax the way he wanted to all of his life. His life away from his home can be analoguous to reality. For example, if someone lives in a mansion, he would be startled and very interested if he were inside a poor person's home. This is also true for vice-versa, where a poor person would probably be amazed by the grand stature of a rich person's home. For Huck, this meant escaping from the mansion and strictness of a mansion and living in a "cramped" home, which was probably very relieving for him.
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