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