Examples Of Symbolism In Huck Finn Now

When the fog finally thinned, he spotted the raft drifting ahead. He snuck aboard and found Jim asleep, exhausted from mourning Huck, whom he thought had drowned. Huck, being a boy, decided to play a trick. He woke Jim and tried to convince him the entire fog and their separation had been nothing but a dream.

Represents the path to freedom and a natural world that doesn't care about social status.

Jim looked at the debris on the raft—the leaves and the mud left behind by the river. He didn't laugh. He looked at Huck with a deep, quiet sadness and said that "trash is what people is who puts dirt on the head of their friends and makes them ashamed."