First Post on Freedom and Enslavement

Chapter six (6) of the novel to me was a vital example of how freedom and slavery came to play in the novel,  After Huck is taken by his father to and deprived from his life he had with the widow, he's not happy.  His father took away the schooling and everything that he did at the widow's place which he didn't mind.  In fact living with his father made him to realize how much he did not want to go back to the widow or stay with him.  In simplest terms, he just wanted to be free of both party's rule, he yearned for "freedom".  The cabin in which he lived in acted a prison which he wanted to escape from.  Later on in the chapter we are also let onto how Huck's dad opinion on the government.  Pap resented a black man doing better than him in life and did not believe it was fair.  Though he resented anyone's accomplishments (Huck's especially), that of a black male who he felt should be enslaved but was not was what he really resented the most.  "There was a free nigger there, Ohio; a mulatter, most as a white man....There was a state in this country where they'd let a nigger vote.....I says to people why ain't that nigger put up at auction and sold"(Twain 28).  This quote right here clearly show the views of Pap on the standings on black male, especially those who were free, he felt as if they should have been "enslaved".  In chapter seven all Huck wants to do is escape, he just wants to be free from his dad.

Both Huck and Jim in chapters eight (8) through nine (9) deal with freedom and slavery.  When they both find each other in chapter eight (8) they are both shocked, but swear to keep it a secret.  Jim tells Huck about how he was treated badly when he was enslaved under Ms.Watson, a supposed good christian. Huck found it weird and bad in this chapter to be called an abolitionist.  " People would call me a low down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum-but that don't make no difference. I ain't agoing to tell" (twain 45).  They were people who fought for people's being "enslaved" own "freedom".  In a sense though Jim is the "escaped slave" both characters to me were enslaved by people who they did not like Huck (pap) and Jim (Miss. Watson) and all they wanted was freedom. This sets out the theme of the novel as they both departure.