Human Contact (Moi Poetry 2022) FRConst

Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is the son of the town's - fictional St. Petersburg, Missouri on t Mississipi accross t Illinois with t also fictive long forested Jackson Island with snakes and a cave between them, with beach bays to 4 miles away Missouri and vertical cliffs four hundred meters to t Illinois Channel: Missouri being t Northest of t Southern Christian Slavedom States which in a few years would have try DC President Abraham Lincoln - vagrant drunkard, "Pap" Finn.

Sleeping on doorsteps when the weather is fair, in empty hogsheads during storms, and living off of what he receives from others, Huck lives the life of a destitute vagabond. The author metaphorically names him "the juvenile pariah of the village" and describes Huck as "idle, and lawless, and vulgar, and bad", qualities for which he was admired by all the other children in the village, although and just because their mothers "cordially hated and dreaded" him, forbidding them his presence.

Huck is an archetypal innocent, able to discover the "right" thing to do despite the prevailing Southern Calvinistic Slavery Theology and prejudiced mentality of the South of that era. An example of this is his decision to help Jim escape slavery, even though he believes he will go to Hell for it, as Heaven is closed before Negroes and Low-lives Abolitionists.

His appearance is described in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He wears the clothes of full-grown men which he probably received as charity, and as Twain describes him, "he was fluttering with rags." He has a torn, broken hat and his trousers are supported with only one suspender. Even Tom Sawyer, the St. Petersburg hamlet boys' leader sees him as "the banished Romantic".

Tom's Aunt Polly calls Huck a "poor motherless thing." Huck confesses to Tom in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that he remembers his mother and his parents' relentless fighting that stopped only when she died.

Huck has a carefree life free from societal norms or rules, stealing watermelons and chickens and "borrowing" (stealing) boats and cigars. Due to his unconventional childhood, Huck has received almost no education. At the end of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck is adopted by the Widow Douglas, who sends him to school in return for his saving her life one book before. In the course of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn he learns enough to be literate and reads books for entertainment. His knowledge of history as related to Jim is inaccurate but it is not specified if he is being wrong on purpose or as a joke on Jim. Also on his wandering searching for his almost free Black Friend Jim, the only one besides Tom Sawyer, who has ever loved him, except the Widow maybe, Huck meets a