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... In Mark Twain’s, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, irony is incorporated throughout the novel to bring out Twain’s important messages of freedom. ... Freedom, a message of hope and liberty, creates a format for the characters in, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and is continually shown throughout the story. ... When Huck says the raft makes “you feel mighty free and easy and comfortable” (113), he is describing the motion of independence. ... Huck and Jim feel open to live life without the restrictions set by society, “We said there warn’t no homes like a raft… other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t” (113). A home, in society, represents a comfort zone where people are able to relax with family, but to Huck and Jim this standard of living does not allow them to live openly. Through an abusive father and a life in slavery, Huck and Jim feel restrained to an
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unhappy life, but happiness on the simplicity of the raft. These examples of dramatic irony, clearly give Huck and Jim the chance to explore their home of America by escaping an abusive father or a life imposed upon one’s soul.
Approximate Word count = 942
Approximate Pages = 3.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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