Huckleberry Finn

Character in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn From: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Protagonist and narrator; a resourceful orphan with a distinctive voice and perspective on society

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"It's lovely to live on a raft."
Happiness
"I never felt easy till the widow Douglas's bell rung."
Peace
"We was always naked, day and night."
Freedom
"I warn't ever more cheerful in my life."
Happiness
"I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place is taking considerable many risks."
Truth
"Nobody ever goes to that island."
Solitude
"I didn't want to talk much."
Solitude
"That's the way it always is with a raft."
Philosophy
"I was powerful glad to see Jim."
Friendship
"We ain't got no money."
Money
"I judged she had lived a long time in the world."
Wisdom
"I couldn't rest easy."
Peace
"I never seen such a night."
Adventure
"I was getting full of hatred toward those two."
Courage
"Jim was kind and good to me."
Kindness
"There's more honor in a man than in the whole world."
Justice
"I liked the new ways best."
Change
"I was getting tired of the woods."
Perseverance
"We were free and independent."
Freedom
"Nothing hurt but our feelings."
"I knowed he was white inside."
Justice
"I would a had to own up and been a slave again."
Freedom
"That warn't no kind of thing to do."
"I couldn't ever care much for killing things."
Kindness
"I warn't feeling very brash."
Fear
"Being in a harem beat anything I ever heard about."
Imagination
"I felt a hundred times better."
Happiness
"I didn't know how to take it."
"I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it."
Freedom
"All right, then, I'll go to hell."
Courage