Huck Finn by Mark Twain :: Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

In the story Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the river symbolizes desolatedom. Huck goes on the river to get free from enough civilized and to get away from his pap and Jim uses the river to get freed from slavery. Also the king and the duke use it to escape from angry towns. Any time they are in disorder when they get on the river they are no longer in trouble.Huck gets a raft to go down the river to get away from his pap and so he is no longer living in civilization. He didnt like sleeping in a bed and reading books, Huck says, I didnt appear how Id ever got to like it so well at the widows, where you had to wash, and eat on a plate, and comb up, and go to bed and get up regular, and forever bothering all over a book and have old Miss Watson pecking at you all the time (1368).Then when Huck thought his dad was going to kill him he knew he had to leave there too. So he got a canoe and raft and went down the river. When he was on the river he was safe and getting free fr om his pap and no longer feared getting hurt by him.Jim is afraid of universe sold by Widow Douglas so he runs away and is nerve-wracking to get freed from slavery. He also goes down the river with Huck and uses it as his path to freedom. Whenever he is on the river he is safe. When Jim is being chased he can perpetually get away on the river. He is also not treated like a slave on the raft and doesnt have to fear being sold. The King and the Duke get in trouble many times by scamming different towns to get money by lying and pretending to be population they really arent. Every time they get away by going on the river and are free on it. When they finally get caught they are on land, away from the freedom of the river.