n’t always right.”Huck Finn: “All right, then, I’ll go to hell.”The king: “I am the king of France and just about anything else that suits my fancy.”The duke: “Lets swindle the first good town we come to.”Mary Jane: “If it’s reason enough for Huck, then it’s reason enough for me.” Widow Douglas: “Huck, you poor lost lamb.”IV.Form Structure and PlotThe plot of this story is simple, but the symbolism in it is complex. One really has to read into the metaphors to understand the symbolism in the story. V.Narrative PerspectiveThis story is written in first person, past tense. It is narrated by an objective narrator. It is autobiographical because it is a story told by the narrator about himself. VI.SymbolismTwain used Huck Finn to talk about the “damned human race” and to condemn the stereotypes of right and wrong in which the rulers of society justified their own selfish interests. In this novel the representative stereotype is slavery. Huck was constantly battling with his conscious because morals of church and society said he should report a run away slave. Another way to look at it is that Jim might represent slavery and Huck represents white America’s struggle with the morals of slavery. The work is allegorical. The River is the central symbol to which other symbolic elements are referred. In this story the River accorded with Huck’s loneliness; and whether it ravened the land or was at peace, it was clean and trustworthy reality for Jim, a fugitive from slavery, and Huck, fleeing from all the brutality of “civilization” epitomized in his father. VII.PlotThe book begins with Huck Finn living with the Widow Douglas and Mrs. Watson, that is until his father comes back into town and takes Huck into the woods to live with him. Huck does not like living with his pa very much so one day when his pa is gone...
