Huck is trying to achieve the freedom from guilt in this story by using the term ‘borrow’ when he ‘steals’ something. Since nobody likes to feel guilty, a guilty person will come out with reasons to justify their act and decrease their self-generated suffering. A person will feel guilt when they realize what they have done was wrong. When a person keeps questioning their misbehavior, playing and replaying what they did inn their mind, it will increase the feeling of guilt. Feeling guilt is always a terrible feeling. Freedom from guilt is finding release from burden that someone has because of his or her sinful act. There are several freedoms that have been portrayed in this novel but these three are the most obvious ones, which are freedom from guilt, freedom of faith and freedom from loneliness.Īccording to Oxford Dictionary, guilt is “the fact of having committed a specified or implied offense or crime or a feeling of having done wrong or failed in an obligation”. The setting plays a role to help in revealing the theme and freedom is one of the dominant themes that stood out throughout this novel.
The river and the raft are the only place where they can talk freely because the society teaches them not to talk with the slave because they are not equals because slaves are at the bottom level of society. Other than being America’s premier river, The Mississippi River is the route used by Huck and Jim towards freedom. It gives life and death to human and living things and also a much-traveled highway through United States. During this era, a river is not just a river. The Mississippi River in this story is the ultimate symbol of freedom where Huck and Jim can escape from their melancholic lives. The setting of Mark Twain story “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” is crucial to enhance reader’s understanding on the theme of the novel. However, I choose this story for my theme paper. I find it very difficult to understand the English used by the author.
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