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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"So I quit thinking about 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
"The widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me."
Education
"I never wanted to talk much about the other night."
Truth
"It was awful thoughts and awful words, but I said them anyway."
"You don't know about me without you have read a book called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
Literature
"We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all."
Adventure
"I went to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little."
Knowledge
"He was most ruined for a while, and didn't know nothing at all."
Change
"We judged that three nights more would fetch us all the way to Cairo."
Hope
"I felt so ornery and low-down and mean, that I says to myself, my mind ain't made up yet."
"I would go down to the river and have a long think."
Solitude
"These two frauds were just perfect examples of human nature."
Philosophy
"I ain't a-going to tell all I know"
Freedom
"I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead"
Solitude
"All right, then, I'll go to hell"
Courage
"It ain't no matter. Don't you learn me no more, I don't want to go to school no more"
Education
"I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place is taking considerable many resks"
Truth
"We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them"
Nature
"It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars"
Happiness
"There warn't nothing to do, now, but to look out sharp for the town"
Adventure
"I'm trying to be good"
"We're safe on the raft now"
Peace
"I never felt easy till the bullet went in him"
Fear
"Blame it all! This is awful"
Fear
"It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river like that"
Nature
"I wanted to know about it"
Knowledge
"My new suit bothers me a little, I reckon I'll wear the old rags"
Freedom
"We said there warn't no home like a raft"