Huckleberry Finn's search for independence.
...uck, “…scrambled out of the window onto the shed. Then [he] slipped down to the ground and crawled in among the trees…”(6) to sneak off and play with his friends. In order to be free Huck leaves, and though he comes back after a little while it still shows he wishes to be free of Miss Watson’s bonds. Huck has been controlled his whole life, first by his father, then by Miss Watson, with brief tastes of independence in between; tastes that he can not get enough of. After Huck’s father comes back “Pap” takes Huck to a cabin in a remote area of the wilderness. There Huck is somewhat happy because he is free from Miss Watson, and living the life he knows. But soon Huck realizes that he is not yet free from his father’s restraints. Though Huck is used to being beaten by his drunken father, he is not going to take it anymore. When Huck finds a saw he sees his chance to saw out of the cabin, and saw off his father’s chains. While sawing out of the cabin Huck thinks up a plan to fake his own death and to fix it so, “They won’t ever hunt the river for anything but [his] dead carcass”(34). Huck makes a move that day to finally be free and independent; on his own. Huck is an easygoing kind of person, and with his newfound freedom he just rests most days when he’s not on some adventure. Jim, Miss Watson’s runaway slave, also wants to be free. After both escaping the search parties looking for them and getting a good distance away, Huck and Jim, “… laid off all the afternoon in the woods talking, and [Huck] reading the books, and having a general good time”(74). Because Huck and Jim are fre...