River provides freedom for Huck
You can certainly say that the river provides freedom for Huck. Without it Huck would not have a good way to escape from his father. The fact that he lived just beside the shore, makes it a good route to runaway for. He must have known the river from earlier experiences and known how he could maneuver down the river.
If the river hadn’t been there, going by land would be his only option to escape. The river then gives him a feeling of freedom. Not only would walking by land take more time, his father could also more easily catch him. When you consider his dad was drunk most of the time, I would not believe the chances of being caught by him to be so big, but it had been a larger chance anyway.
The river is the clear option for an runaway, and it gives Huck the freedom he wants. It gives him a new home, but a home for him is not freedom. Freedom for Huck is being free to go where ever he want, when ever he wants. The river gave him the option to get freedom and he used it.
Short Answers:
1. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1884.
2. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn can best be described as one of America’s most famous novels, and one of Mark Twain’s best work.
3. Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer each received 6000 dollars ( $ ) when they found money that the robbers had hidden in the cave.
4. Huckleberry Finn’s father returns because he want the 6000 $ that Huckleberry Finn got in a reward.
5. When Jim first sees Huck Finn on the island, he thinks Huck is one of the white men that search for him to get a reward.
6. Jim runs away from Miss Watson because she wants to sell him to a slave trader from New Orleans, and there slaves got threaten very bad.
7. Huck escapes to Jackson Island and discovers that he is not alone there, Jim has escaped to, and they plan to build a raft and go down the river to the Ohio River, and from there take a steamboat to the northern states where slavery is illegal.
8. Mark Twain’s approach to the issue of racism in Huckleberry Finn is that racism is a bad thing, that should not be allowed. Everyone should be treated as equals, and that the slaves tried to escape was not so bad, even if they broke the law.