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 was a mighty nice family, and a mighty fine house too."
Family
"I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place is taking considerable many resks."
Truth
"I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him."
Kindness
"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."
Philosophy
"I would go to the bad for him."
"I ain't a-going to tell all that happened."
"We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars."
Beauty
"It was kind of lazy and jolly, to lay on the raft."
Peace
"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
"It's lovely to live on a raft."
Happiness
"We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all."
Adventure
"I was most powerful glad to get away from the widow's."
Freedom
"I never felt easy till the raft was safe in the big water."
Peace
"There ain't nothing more to write about, and I'm rotten glad of it."
Humor
"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
Literature
"I would rather be ignorant than civilized."
Freedom
"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 I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change."
Change
"The widow Douglas took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me."
Family
"It was kind of lazy and jointed, and I liked it."
Happiness
"I don't take no stock in dead people."
Philosophy
"I never wanted to go much before."
Adventure
"It's lovely to live on a raft."
Happiness
"We said there warn't no home like a raft."
"I would rather have as lief not tell who I am."
"I felt so mean I could almost kissed his foot to get him to take it back."
"If I had knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't a tackled it."
Work
"I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else."
Fear
"The stars was shining, and the leaves rustled in the wind ever so soft."
Nature