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separated from Jim and the raft. And when things just started to get better, and freedom was on the tip of Huck and Jim's tongues, the raft became inhabited with two con men. One of which claims to be a duke, the other a dauphin. And for the last half of the journey, these false heirs of royalty continue to use Huck and Jim's travels to callously go from town to town, playing the townspeople like chess pieces.
Huckleberry Finn has multiple climaxes. And that is what makes it such a great book. The first climax was when Huck and Jim were almost found out by two men who were searching for five runaway slaves. Twain purposefully introduces a heart-stopper earlier in the novel as a road sign to indicate what's ahead. Another climax was when Huck, the duke, and dauphin pose as the deceased Peter Wilks' brothers, Huck being a servant. When Huck began to fancy one of the Wilks daughters, Mary Jane, it infuriates Huck to think of the two men taking advantage of her. "...this is a girl that I'm letting that old reptile rob her of her money." When Huck resolves to expose the two con men, and slips up and tells Mary Jane everything- that was the absolute climax. It made the reader want to read on, just to see justice come to the heartless frauds.
There are also many things in the story that stimulate further thinking on the part of the reader without much effort from Twain's writing. He includes tangible symbols that would be seen by a good reader, such as the river. The river, along with the sometimes horrible weather that came along with it, symbolized the gate, or pathway, to freedom, and the obstacles that make a good thing worth while. And after losing and recovering their raft, and even after it was plowed through clear in half by a huge boat, it was none-the-less repaired by old Jim, as good as new. The raft symbolizes the relationship between Huck and Jim, as well as their unforgettable journey together.
Mark Twain uses a sense of style in his writing of Huckleberry Finn that appeals to many types of readers. He includes adventure, mystery, suspense, comedy and integrity into a book that is cover-to-cover fantastic. Although many schools ban his book, it offers an insight into American history that is hard to beat by any history book; it personifies and gives depth into those times of drunkenness and slavery. Although slaves were given a label as dumb, Twain saw that it was because of the white race that slaves were ignorant. And since he couldn't change the fact that his character, Jim, would no doubt be ignorant and uneducated, he knew that he could make up for it by giving Jim a sense of goodness, and an instinct to play father and guardian to Huck while in eachother's presence. Twain even turns the tables by creating a lesson to be learned by Huck from Jim. After Huck had played a mean trick on Jim, Jim said in return:
"What do dey stan' for? I's gwyne to tell you. When I got all wore out wid work, en wid de callin' for you, en went to sleep, my heart wuz mos' broke bekase you wuz los', en I didn' k'yer no' mo' what become er me en de raf'. En when I wake up e fine you back ag'in, all safe en soun', de tears come, en I could 'a' got down on my knees en kiss yo' foot, I's so thankful. En all you wuz thinkin' 'bout wuz how you could make a fool uv ole Jim wid a lie.&nbs