Huck Finn
Huck Finn is the protagonist of Mark Twain's *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* (1884), a resourceful boy who escapes his abusive father and rafts down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave.
The name evokes American frontier independence, youthful rebellion against social hypocrisy, and a particular kind of scrappy, uneducated wisdom: He had a real Huck Finn childhood, running wild in the woods.
- raftFlat water conveyance
- river raftWaterway touring vessel
- MississippiSouthern state or major river
- riverLarge flowing watercourse
- runawayOne who flees
Mark Twain · Jim · freedom · adventure · Twain · slavery · fishing · whitewash · fence · Missouri · floating · orphan · superstition · widow · catfish · barefoot · mischief · island
- boy heroesHarry Potter, Peter Pan, Tom Sawyer, Oliver Twist, Mowgli
- literary charactersSherlock Holmes, Scout Finch, Elizabeth Bennet, Macbeth, Mr. Darcy
- Mark TwainSamuel Clemens, pen name, pseudonym, Tom Sawyer, The Gilded Age
- Rascalsrascal, imp, scamp, scallywag, scalawag
- American ClassicsMoby-Dick, Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter, Walden, Leaves of Grass
- Literary SequelsMockingjay, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix
Huck Finnconformist
One following accepted norms
Tom Sawyer · Aunt Polly · Pollyanna · teacher's pet · prig
Huck Finnaristocrat
Person of noble birth
gentleman · blue blood · debutante · trust fund kid · young master