The book ìAdventures of Huckleberry Finnî is a book about characters who were all common men or boys. The book had only a few female characters and those that were the female characters had basically no importance to the story. The main character was Huckleberry Finn who was a boy that knew what was going on in life, he had limited schooling but was always almost forced to be able to learn. He was a character that the author Mark Twain made look very smart in the common sense. He would always know the right thing to do and it seemed as if he always knew the right time to try and break away from the duke and the king. He helped Jim become the free man that he was at the end of the book and the way that he adapted to every single situation that he was put in was incredible.

Here he was, a boy that was worth $6,000 dollars, which must have been a lot of money back then, being taken from his abusive father and forced to live with the ìso helpfulî Miss Watson. It is really odd how no one really cared about him until he was worth something to them. Well, anyway, not even realising the fact that she only wanted him for his money, he adapted to her treatment. ìThe Widow Douglas she took for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldnít stand it no longer I lit out.,............The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never ment no harm by it.î (page 11) As you can see Huck is kind of a go with the flow type of guy and because of that, whatever was thrown at him was whatever he accepted. Although he did not like going to school and having to work on his spelling every night he did it.

So after living civilised for a while, back into the picture comes Huckís dad who is just as much of a drunk as ever. He kidnaps his very own son because he did not want him to be smarter than he was, he did not want him to learn how to read and write or do anything like that. But what Huckís dad did not know was that Huck was already smarter than him. Once Huckís dad kidnapped him he was locked up everyday in a cabin out in the woods. ìAfter supper pap took the jug, and he said he had enough whisky there for two drunks and one delirium tremens. That was always his word. I judged he would be blind drunk in about an hour, and then I would steal the key or saw myself out,î (page 36) This is Huck reflecting on what it was like when he was all locked up in the cabin. He eventually would saw himself out of the cabin and set it all up good, looking like someone killed him. Huck was a very smart boy the way he set up everything so good, he even admitted that Tom Sawyer, his friend would be so proud of his work. Huck really worked with what life gave him and as bad as he did not want to be in the cabin all day and all night he adapted to the way that his dad would beat him and he soon came up with a plan to get away from his father.

From this point Huck went on to being alone for a little while as he took his canoe and some supplies and set off down the river. He really had no idea where he was going to end up but was very smart in the was that he would only canoe in the night and rest during the day. It also seemed as if he really knew the river well and had a good idea of the area and an island that he could stay on. ìI was powerful lazy and comfortable-didnít want to get up and cook breakfast. Well, I was dozing off again when I thinks I hears a deep sound of ìboom!î away p the river.,.........By and by she come along, and she drifted in so close that they could ëaí run out a plank and walked ashore.î (page 44-45) this is a part in the book when Huck is describing himself on the island and how he was just kind of sitting there al comfortable and not really worrying about anything at all. He really adapted well to being alone on the island and taking care of himself.

Sure enough Huckís life would change once again. He would meet up with the runaway slave Jim who was once Miss Watsonís slave. He would become friends with the black man and treat him as if they were really equal. Not once did Huck say anything bad about Jim and all that Huck did was make Jim feel good about himself. There was a point in the book were Huck was reading to Jim and all that Jim was doing was just sitting there listening to Huck read in aw of the knowledge that he was receiving. Huck and Jim made a very good team the way that the two of them would always be looking out for each other. You could tell that Huck truly respected Jim and because of this Jim was a very king man to Huck.

The two had many adventures together and they also had to adapt to many other things in there life. They went to different towns, showing up in a town where there was a very large feud. The were both treated as slaves when the two con men, the king and the duke got ahold of them. Huck would do anything to protect his friend Jim and it proved. Huck than tried to adapt to the lying ways of the king and the duke but he had trouble doing that as he reviled there secret to a women that they were playing a trick on. All in all the way that Huck reacted to situations was by doing the right thing. He adapted well to everything and that is the one part about ìAdventures of Huckleberry Finnî that made the book interesting to me.