The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature. Although the society it satirized was already history at the time of publication, the book was quite controversial, and has remained so to this day. It is a widespread belief that boys who are stubborn to the extreme might end up becoming public nuisances. However, this is not the case of our hero H