Transcendentalism Expressed Through Huck Finn - 1706 Words

Miles Walton Mrs. Long English/period 3 January 9, 2015 Transcendentalism Expressed through Huck Finn Many times an authors purpose of writing a fictitious story is to not only create a story for the reader to enjoy, but to allow the reader to get something out of the story that they may not have thought about on their own. Often times the inside meaning in a story may involve something about society that the author either likes or dislikes and wants you to think about the problem yourself. In the story, â€Å"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn† the author, Mark Twain does an excellent job in creating an enjoyable story as well as propose a problem in society. Twain believed that society was corrupt and cruel so he created a fictional story to portray the issue. In order to do this twain created a character and put him in a corrupt society where he went on numerous adventures and throughout the story questioned the ways of society and became transcendental to their ideas. The first idea of transcendentalism is being a non-conformist and twain gives many examples of non- conformist thoughts and actions in order for him to portray his thoughts of how society is corrupt. When Huck finds Jim Huck says â€Å"people would call me a lowdown Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum- but that don’t make no difference. I aint going to tell† (41). He is concerned with the legality and morality of being frinds with a slave. Deep in his heart Huck is drawn to helping Jim because he knows