Part one of term paper
ADD: Active Determined Dreamer Huckleberry Finn is not an escapist, but a free spirit who only wants to live deeply disentangled from the bonds of society. An escapist is someone who flees from his/her responsibilities, while a free spirit is a person who knows no boundaries, and cannot be tamed by society. It may appear at first that Huck i ...

Part two of term paper
... during his stay with Pap, it wasn’t the responsibility that he was escaping, but the rules that society had imposed on him. Huck didn’t mind learning new things and being knowledgeable, but he did not like to get dressed up, to have to go to school, to be well behaved and polite, and to learn good manners. “I was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing…and my clothes got to be all rags and dirt, and I didn’t see how I’d ever got to like it so well a ...