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Essay- Journeys
A journey is more than just movement from one place to another. It is about learning and growth. In this essay, it will attempt to discuss this statement with reference to the focus text, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a novel by Mark Twain, Journeys over Land and Sea, Item 6 from the Stimulus Booklet, Rabbit Proof Fence a film by Phillip Noyce and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The focus text is a story of a boy’s adventure down the Mississippi River during the 1840’s. The main character, Huckleberry Finn with a runaway slave named Jim float down the river (symbolic for knowledge and freedom) on a raft. The novel is told in a first person narrative by the major character himself, Huck, using his own dialect.
Huck runs away to Jackson’s island which is in the middle of the river and it is here he learns that Jim, Miss Watson’s slave, has runaway after overhearing that she is thinking about selling him “Ole missus tell the widder she gwyne to sell me down to Orleans”. He also learns that Jim has more talents and intelligence than he had been aware of- Jim being superstitious knows ‘all kinds of signs’ about the weather, bad luck and the future. Huck also visits a woman in a little town and comes to learn that people are looking for Jim and hence forced to leave the island.
During their journey down the river, Huck reads about dukes and kings to Jim, which foreshadows the time when they are going to meet the Duke and the King. However, from this conversation leading onto whether Solomon was a wise man or not and why French people don’t talk the same as English people, Huck learns that he can’t argue with Jim. “You can’t learn a nigger to argue. So I quit.”
Another learning experience for Huck while on his journey, is that Jim, even though he is a “nigger”, has feelings just like any other human being. He finally learns this when he...
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