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Volume : II, Issue : I, February - 2012

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUCK AND JIM IN THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLBERRY FINN

Vijaya Narendra Joshi

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLBERRY FINN is written by Mark Twain in 1883. Huck is a lovable, innocent and neglected 14 years old boy – hero of the novel. His mother is dead and his father is a cruel drunkard When the novel opens, he is living with the widow Douglas in the small riverside town of St. Petersburg. The Widow adopts Huck and tries to civilize him. The widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson give Huck a home and try to reform this rough, dirty and illiterate boy, who likes to sleep in hogshead. But Huck does not like the rigid discipline of the Widow's house and her 'civilized society'. He feels uncomfortable and finds life very difficult. So he feels happy when Pap-his father takes him to the woods.

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Vijaya Narendra Joshi, (2012). RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUCK AND JIM IN THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLBERRY FINN. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. I, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/695.pdf

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  1. Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn. Modern Promotions New York. P.25.
  2. Ed. By Charles Feidelson: and Paul Brodtkorb. Interpretations of American Literature, New York Oxford Uni. Press 1959, P 214
  3. Arthur Mizener, Twelve Great American Novels. The Bodley Head, London P. 40.
  4. Henry Nash Smith: Mark Twain: a collection of critical Essays Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, P 90.
  5. Thomas Young and Ronald Fine, American Literature: A critical Survey-II, Vanderbilt University American book Company, P.256.

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