
Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. The two bind themselves to one another, becoming intimate friends and agreeing "there warn't no home like a raft, after all.



Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick.įleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River.
