I find, Adventures of Huckelberry Finn a much more laid back and easy to read book. It was meant to be for young readers and for the dual of the Tom Sawyer book which was also set in the early 1830s. It is for men or young boys and how they are intrigued to explore, play practical tricks on other people and develop their own sense of adventure as well. Huck is a boy between the age of a child and a teenager and is finding himself. He already has many set opinions but beats to his own drum and does not want to create a problem or interfere with other people's lives. He simply wants to runaway from his drunken father, and on the same not help his father by not giving his dad the money to drink. his dad controls him and unlike most parents does not want the better being of his descendent but merely wants to drink himself "the forty yards away." Huck runs away to define himself and a better life for himself as well. On the way his companion, adult companion becomes Jim, an older black man who has been accused of killing Huck who previously facked his death. A theme already is the conflict between nature. And how everyone can once again be themselves. Also it is how honor is portrayed and how Huck makes this decision to go and live on with Jim at his side. They become a team an avid adventureres that will probably constantly be running away from society and the thoughts. When reading to page 72, it comes across as if he has stopped writing because this is a pivitol moment where Jim is taken from the boys. I don't know if he wanted to keep going. But he was publically known in the late 1870s that he needed to get this book out . Him stopping probably caused some financial problems. however the book is both a kids book and shows the time period in the 1830s..... It is a big thing that he wrote it so much early in date then when he was writing. I still do not grasp this? Thanks.