oth immerse themselves in the values of "civilization,"This is not just a boy running away from home. It is someone who has decided to turn his back on everything "home" stands for, even one of its most cherished beliefs. Huck’s adventure began because he was rebelling; he pushed aside all those values that everyone else wanted him to have. Huck's views are all completely naturalistic; free of any of the pretensions toward refinement that marks the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson. Huckleberry is rough, rustic--a truly "uncivilized" boy. He rebels against the restraints of "civilization" artificial, middle-class society and its delusions, represented by "cramped" clothing and religion, respectively. Huck’s complete sincerity, which leads to his dislike for hypocritical "civilization," is his defining quality. He was running away from what everyone else believed. He in a way refused not to conform and be bound by the limitations of American Civilization. He was running to freedom of the river. The river never cares how saintly you are, how rich you are, or what society thinks you are. The river allows Huck the one thing that Huck wants to be, and that is Huck. The river constitutes freedom from the land of oppression, and that oppression is no more evident than it is to Jim. It is somewhat surprising that Huck's traveling companion is Jim. In this irony both Jim and Huck have that in common, feeling oppressed. However there is the difference of being oppressed physically as Jim and mentally oppressed as Huck is. As anti-society that Huck is, you would think that he would have no qualms about helping Jim. Huck and Jim's journey begins as Huck fights within himself about turning Jim over to the authorities. Finally he decides not to turn Jim in. This is a monumental decision for Huck to make, even though he makes it on the spot. . In this way this allows Huck to leave his thoughts of bigotry behind and start to see Ji...
