The roles Huckleberry Finn plays in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is

Huckleberry serves is the protagonists and narrator of the novel. For instance, Huckleberry is a
thirteen-year-old son of the towns local drunk of St. Petersburg, Missouri that is located on the
Mississippi River. Throughout the novel, Huckelberry narrates what’s happening to himself as he
is forced to survive on his own wits and is viewed as an outcast. Since Huckelberry is the
protagonist in the novel, he demonstrates thoughtfulness, intelligence, and is willing to come to
terms about important matters, even if they contradict societal norms. However, Huckelberry
Finn is a boy who is easily influenced by others, especially by his friend Tom and father Pap.
Huckelberry Finn is different in comparison to his father Pap because Huckelberry father
is absent till he discovers his son has come into some money. This is important to note since Pap
is an outcast filled with hatred for Black individuals and all of society, whereas Huckelberry isn’t
since he becomes close with the slave Jim. On the hand, Huckleberry and his father Pap are
similar in the way they both dislike themselves from civilization. For instance, Pap’s poverty
added to his innate disappointment with maintaining a social life. Even though Pap may not
recognize this, Huckelberry inherits his father’s discontent for life and jeopardies inheriting
destructive anger that comes with it since Huck doesn’t have an appropriate outlet to release his
anger. However, Pap chooses to emit his anger through violence whereas Huck issues his
through exploration and the pursuit of self-determination.
Pap teaches Huckelberry about fatherhood by not being in his life that much. For
instance, Pap is teaching his son that it’s okay to run away when life gets too hard and the only
way to fix your problems is by finding them at the bottom of a liquor bottle. Throughout the
novel of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huckelberry doesn’t learn anything about
fatherhood from his own absentee father since he left him at a young age. The one thing that Pap
did teach his son about fatherhood is having strangers raise a kid that’s not theirs in hopes of a
better life.