Huckleberry Finn

I think the book Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was out down for several years because the author got stuck. I believe that he felt the book was going nowhere. They got lost, they were separated, their raft was gone; where could the story go? I thin Mark Twain did not just want to write solely about Huck’s adventures. He wanted there to be a purpose. In the first few chapters of the novel after Twain picked it back up and set out to finish it, you see Huck realizing the seriousness of the adventure for Jim. Jim was “all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom”, but Huck never understood. Now, he sort of saw that. When Huck and Jim approach the land, Huck lies that Jim is white and then the man gives him Money to get down the river more. I think at this point we start to really see that Jim is serious and it’s not just a fun adventure for him. In chapter eighteen, while Huck was livin’ it up with Buck Jim was hard at work. “"No, she warn't. She was tore up a good deal --one en' of her was; but dey warn't no great harm done, on'y our traps was mos' all los'. Ef we hadn' dive' so deep en swum so fur under water, en de night hadn' ben so dark, en we warn't so sk'yerd, en bensich punkin-heads, as de sayin' is, we'd a seed de raf'. But it's jis' as well we didn't, 'kase now she's all fixed up agin mos' as good as new, en we's got a new lot o'stuff, in de place o' what 'uz los'." He fixed up the raft and searched and searched so they could get on with the journey and get to freedom.