Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Themes

(Click the themes infographic to download.) Surprise: a book set in the pre-Civil War South with a black man as one of the main characters deals with the theme of race. We're shocked. But serio...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) If you're like Shmoop, you run into moral issues everyday. Should I copy my friend's trigonometry homework? Do I need to leave a note for the person who...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) Don't touch that. Don't slouch. Don't put your feet up. Go to church. Go to Sunday School. Just… go to school, period. Huck is surrounded by rules, a...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) When is a lie just a lie, and when it is a con? Thirteen-year-old narrator Huck Finn can hardly open his mouth without an untruth spilling out, but his...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) With stories about babies found in bulrushes and kings who propose cutting infants in half, you can see why Huck is a little skeptical of religion. And...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) Huck takes friendship so seriously that he's willing to swear blood oaths on it. Worse, he's willing to risk eternal damnation—because that's what he...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) Huck is like that hippie kid with questionable hygiene who can't stop talking about how he once hiked the Appalachian Trail. No walls, houses, beds, and...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) Huck leaves behind one family—an abusive, drunken one—to find family after family as he travels down the Mississippi River, from the feuding Granger...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) Huck Finn’s youthful naiveté is part of the charm of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Because of his young age, he is able to approach conflict wi...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) For the most part, characters in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are made fools by other characters. Pranks, cons, tricks, and deceptions seem to be...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) Belief in the supernatural and superstition in general are the marks of multiple characters in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It’s their mutual b...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) Alcohol use in Huck Finn is usually portrayed as compulsive and excessive, and it’s always a harmful activity. Huck’s father is an abusive alcoholic...