Endding to Huckleberry Finn

In the story “The adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, I think the ending could have been a more exciting. There could have been many, many different ways the good book could have ended. The ending was to plain. There wasn’t any “cool” or something that we didn’t expected to see happen at the end. Through out the whole book I was on the edge of my seat reading every word because there were a lot of things I didn’t see coming in the book. When I was reading the book I was thinking about all the possibilities of how the book was going to end.
I was disappointed that the story ended the way it did. I was thinking that Jim was going to die or he would be sold as a slave for the rest of his life. I didn’t want him to die because he is a African American, I thought that is how Twain was going to end it. I didn’t think that there was going to be a line in the story saying the “Now, old Jim, you’re a free man again, and I bet you won’t ever be a slave no more”. (Twain 289) I think Mark Twain could have credited a cleverer ending. There’s nothing I can do to change the ended because the man is dead and he wrote a pretty good book.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .New York: Penguin Book, 1986, 1884. Print

Huckleberry Finn, duke and king foil

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Duke and the King are major rolls in the book. The king and duke are big, big foils. We thought that Huck and Jim were really bad characters in the book. The two boys stealing objects like dresses and money from houses and ferries. Another example is that Huck didn’t turn Jim in for running away from his house so he didn’t have to sold.
Well the true bad guys are the duke and king. The duke and king are con-men trying to make money to get alcohol. One part in the book Huck says “The duke and king begun to lay out a plan for working them towns” (169 Twain). They have many plains on what they will do to the next towns. They would do anything to get money. The duke and king make Huck and Jim look like good kids. That why they are foils. Foil is a character that makes the main character look better. That’s what the duke and king do.
The duke and king make Huck a better kid. He see that bad of stealing and that it wont get you anywhere in life. He realize that he if he kept up stealing things that him and Jim would turn out to be just like them. When he goes and steals Jim back from where he was sold to isn’t going in the right way but he is only doing it to save his friend.

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .New York: Penguin Book, 1986, 1884. Print

Huckleberry Finn, Jim helpin Huck

In this book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck would do anything to get out of his old life. Huck runs away from his dad and fakes his death. He runs away to Johnson Island. His friend Jim runs away to the same island. He ran away because he was going to be sold as a slave. Everyone in the town gets the idea that Jim ran away because he kill Huck. It is ironic that they both ran away in a couple of days a part. Everyone in the town figures that Jim killed Huck.


The only reason I think that they are doing that is because that Jim is a black person and he is a slave. Even thought that Jim has some white in his blood they don’t think that slaves should be equal as white people. Huck is surprised that Jim, of all people would run away. When Jim tells Huck that He ran away being all ashamed by saying, “I- I run off” and Huck replying in shock “Jim” (Twain 56). Huck has to choose to make either to not tell anyone about Jim or tell someone. Huck thinks that Jim shouldn’t have done that. I think that Huck shouldn’t tell anyone about Jim. If Huck didn’t have Jim, Huck would be lost and wouldn’t know what to do on the island. Jim is in the story because i think he is a foil to Huck. Making Huck look better than what he is.