Huckleberry…

Do you approve or disapprove of the main character’s views or actions, reactions and treatment of other characters/animals/etc.? 

Well yes and no. Huck fled his father because he beat him and locked Huck in the cabin that he was squatting in. Huck was practically immune to the beatings before he left but what really got him was being locked in the cabin. Huck wants to be free and to live his own life so he escaped. The way he got out of this was a little too extreme for me. He set up the cabin to look like he was kidnapped and then murdered and then he got in a canoe (that he stole) with all of the food and supplies that his father had leaving him empty handed. While he continues going down river he runs into a slave he knew, Jim, and they become traveling companions. So now we have two characters on the run from their abusive worlds which is awesome but they have been lying and stealing to make their way. Granted, Jim has no other option but I don’t think Huck should have fled the way he did. He has at least two adults in his life that could have protected him, Judge Thatcher and the Widow Douglas who both had shown signs of caring for Huck.

Huck is only 13 years old and is very rebellious so I can see why he chose this path but if I were in his situation I wouldn’t have done what he is doing.