| As it happens in the many outstanding | | | | he tries to get Huck's reward money. Pap |
| works of literature, Adventures of | | | | lies to the judge that he is a "new and |
| Huckleberry Finn comprises of several | | | | changed man" with different life and his |
| themes developed around a central plot. | | | | eyes are turned to God now. The next |
| In the case of Mark Twain's novel, it is | | | | morning, however, judge sees him lying |
| a story of a young boy, Huck, and an | | | | dead drunk on his porch with a broken |
| escaped slave, Jim with the description | | | | arm back to his old ways. This episode |
| of their moral, ethical, and human | | | | certainly doesn't depict any fatherly |
| development during thrilling adventures | | | | love except Pap's love for spirits and |
| down the Mississippi River that brings | | | | easy money earned by so much hated |
| them into many conflicts with greater | | | | society. He would be an almost a comic |
| society. The | | | | figure in the novel, if his existence |
| big society however is not Huck's major | | | | didn't have such a tragic impact on |
| concern, it's his father who himself is | | | | Huck's poor heart. The irony of the |
| an outsider and a rebel. Pap is the one | | | | novel is multileveled and one of its |
| who makes Huck's life much more | | | | illustrations is depicted in Pap's |
| complicated than all the rest people in | | | | monologue, when he condemns a nation who |
| the world. Although being a father is an | | | | would allow a black person to vote. This |
| important role and a huge responsibility | | | | is an unthinkable nonsense to him and |
| in normal families, Pap shows no such | | | | yet he has no right to even say things |
| concern toward Huck. The only thing he | | | | like that. He treats his own son worth |
| cares about is getting drunk every day | | | | than a slave, a morally dead human |
| until he doesn't remember himself. Pap | | | | claims to know what other people should |
| is a contrasting figure to Jim who is | | | | or should not do. Often Pap gets "too |
| described in the book as the agent of | | | | handy with his hick'ry," and Huck |
| goodness and honesty. Huck's father is | | | | desires to live that way no more. He |
| the example of all worlds' immorality | | | | decides to escape with a slave Jim, who |
| and filthiness. Even his looks with | | | | will become a carrying father for Huck |
| "long and tangled and greasy hair and | | | | during their flee down the river. On |
| rags for clothes" he reminds Huck of his | | | | their way in the episode described in |
| poverty. Pap behaves in a very cruel way | | | | chapter 9, when they come upon the |
| with Huck, the boy is often beaten up | | | | floating frame-house, they discover a |
| and physically abused. Not only physical | | | | dead man among the various items. After |
| disturbance is an issue between father | | | | Jim looks over the body, he tells Huck |
| and son here, Pap is also against Huck's | | | | to come in the house, but "doan' look at |
| education. He resents Huck's ability to | | | | his face-because it's too gashly." Jim's |
| read and write, and be emerged in | | | | gesture here is similar to that of a |
| religious studies. The world of Widow | | | | protective parent. In Chapter the Last, |
| Douglas, who agreed to take care of | | | | Jim explains that the dead man aboard |
| Huck, in Pap's sick mind, is a dangerous | | | | the house was Pap, and Huck realizes |
| world. He forces Huck to stop his | | | | that Pap will not bother or abuse him |
| education thus to return to his roots as | | | | ever again. For a young boy to have such |
| Pap puts it. He wants his son to solely | | | | cruel, as it may seem, toward his dead |
| belong to himself as a thing not a human | | | | father is not a common thing. They are |
| being, to do only what he orders him. He | | | | totally justified, though, because of |
| even keeps him in the forest in the | | | | the way Pap treated Huck throughout his |
| cabin away from the outside world and | | | | childhood, because of the absence of |
| people who were willing to help, he is | | | | love and care which Pap never showed. |
| locked there like an animal. | | | | Pap was like a heavy weight which Huck |
| Under such abusive eye of Pap, Huck | | | | had to carry everywhere on his small |
| attempts to romanticize his life free | | | | feeble body, but now the weight was gone |
| from the intrusions of a judgmental | | | | forever and Huck could breathe without |
| society and outside civilization. Away | | | | fearing of being slapped for it. |
| from the enforced rules of school and | | | | Although Huck has a biological father |
| town, Huck is "free" to exist according | | | | during almost the whole novel, a reader |
| to Pap's rules, which are liquor and | | | | is convinced that Jim is the one who |
| theft. In reality of Huck's existence | | | | plays that role much better that Pap. |
| under Pap, is one where the presence of | | | | After he tells Huck about his father's |
| Pap's fist and racism saturate all of | | | | dead body, he helps Huck to come to a |
| Huck's life -where Huck is abused and | | | | right decision on freeing Jim. By doing |
| subject to the poison Pap spills onto | | | | such he as if inherits his newly found |
| the whole society. Pap is criticizing | | | | father's kindness and worthy qualities |
| society for trying to take away his son, | | | | that his real father never had. This |
| but at the same time does nothing to | | | | transformation in Huck's mind and life |
| protect Huck, he only makes him suffer | | | | as a whole declares his rebirth. He is a |
| and feel unwelcome in this life. Pap | | | | new person with new moral views and new |
| shows his inner darkness and inability | | | | family. |
| to love his only son in the passage when | | | | |