Many times society will paint an often incorrect picture into the minds of the younger generations, usually corrupting something innocent and pure. However, in the case of Huck Finn in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck displays a remarkable show of self-independence for a fourteen yr old boy. He accepts Jim, an escaped slave, as his in a sense, a foster farther, putting aside all the prejudices of the civilized world in which he lives in. Jim brings the essential quality that a father must present to his "child" in order for that Huck to develop and mature properly. He fills the gap that Pap left void, his father who only abused and demeaned Huck, while testing his remarkable courage.

Pap was a paradigm of everything that was wrong in society, exposing all the ironic fallacies that existed. Pap, the abusive white biological father of Huck...