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...es over Huck as he drifts into life. This solitude is not as impenetrable as Huck tries to make it. When the duke and king enter the scene, "the raft is no longer free"(TRACH 59). This means that, "Even the isolation from society which life on the raft might be thought to afford is violated" (LEARY 140) As stated before, the only way Huck is to be liberated from the abuse of Pap and society was to rid himself of the identity with which he is recognised. This leads to his first confrontation with the trying on of different identities, the death of himself. By faking his death he would escape his problems and allow for him to experience life from different angles. Lee Mitchell says about it, "His very lies assume that words mirror reality rather constitute the way things are... he fabricates tales for self-survival"(90). As Huck drifts down the river on his sanctuary, he begins to look for himself. In other words he attempts to slip into the identities of others to experience things in a different way than they normally would be. For Huck the only thing he knows about himself is the fact that he has to be free. So this means that, "Huck's freedom...requires that he achieve a conscious moral identity"(TRACH 59). This is the simple reason why Huck must find out who he really is on the inside. Alan Trachtenberg once wrote that, "the pervasive deplo...