Huck Finn Chapters 11-16

Ever since i started this book, i feel like the events that occur as the book goes on are awkwardly strung together. And the way Huck's narrating is written doesn't help my cause :P

Even though Huck has been free from the clutches of his father, he is still technically not free. The same goes for Jim, who is not free until he makes it to the free states, where he plans to make enough money to buy is wife and child out of slavery.
But a major theme that i see reoccurring as I read on in the novel is that Huck is a chronic liar. I think this can count as a form of slavery. He is constantly lying to one person or another. In these chapters specifically, he starts out by lying to Mrs. Judith Loftus about his identity and even his gender (but she sees right through his disguise; luckily for Huck she does not know who he is and she actually gives him advice on how to be a girl). Huck then proceeds to lie to the man looking for his family from the steamboat wreck, and to the robbers, AND to Jim. His constant lying makes him a slave to himself, letting him think that it will help him out in the end, but in reality, it might come back to haunt him one day.
Huck almost sells Jim out (literally) to a couple of slave owners but decides against it, after Jim tells Huck that he is his only friend, and instead decides to continue down to the Ohio river towards the free states with Jim. He feels bad that he did not tell he slave owners about Jim, but he knows inside that he would have felt bad if he did too. I feel that Huck is constantly at war with himself and his own values about his relationship with Jim while knowing that hes technically still a slave. If they make it to freedom then maybe that will change.

Huck Finn Chapters 6-10

During chapters 6-10, i noticed several themes of freedom and enslavement. One major one was how Huck was kidnapped by his father and kept in a cabin in the woods. His father would leave and lock him in while he got drunk and then he would come back every night and beat him. I think Huck was considered a slave to his father because his father controled every aspect of his life during this period of time. Huck then gained freedom when he found the canoe, faked his death, and escaped to Jackson's Island. He was free from not only his father, but all rules entirely. He mentioned how he was free to smoke as often as he liked, which he was not able to do before. When Huck meets up with Jim, i thought because the two of them are so involved in their superstitious beliefs, that they could be considered slaves to all of their superstitious beliefs. 

Huck Finn Chapters 1-5

My topic is Freedom & Enslavement while reading Huckleberry Finn. This book has many prime examples of both of these topics, starting with one of the main characters, Jim. He is the first slave that is introduced into the story, and like most slaves during this time, he believes in superstition and legend rather than religion. This contrast is a major element to the story considering how all the slaves are superstitous and the slave owners are Christian. Which brings me over to the Widow Douglas, who is a devout Christian woman, a woman who claims to be a strong follower of God. But even with her beliefs and religion, she is a slaveowner. 

A major freedom that i think is in the book is the fact that Huck lives with the Widow Douglas. Even though he complains about being clean and going to school, he is living a much better life with her than he would have with his father. His father is an old drunk who would probably be unfit to take care of him. In chapters 4 & 5 this is shown clearly when Pap finds Hufk and kidnaps him only for his 6,000 dollars which he sold to the Judge for a dollar. You can even say that Huck got temporarily "enslaved" by his father when he was kidnapped.