How do the authors of ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ and ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ portray young teenagers, and their desires to escape from their elder’s control.
Throughout the history of English Literature ‘escape’ has been written about in novels and short stories by authors wishing to create a gripping story, which a reader can relate to by recalling actions they have committed to escape a part of their life they wished to leave behind, and this is what the authors of the two novels I will write about have aimed to occur in their works. In this assignment I will write about two novels which talk about escape as their main subject, and I will also write about how the authors of the novels portray the young characters of the books and their desires to escape society and adult control. The two novels I will write about include ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ by Mark Twain and ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D Salinger.
The story of Huckleberry Finn is the tale of a young boy, who escapes his father’s control and helps a slave named Jim to escape from being sold to a slave trader by travelling along the Mississippi River. Similar to this is the story of The Catcher in the Rye which is the tale of an young boy becoming man named Holden, who escapes from his school by running away, and so travels around the county acting like a young adult to escape his ‘childhood’ to prove he can be an independent adult.
The story of Huckleberry Finn is the tale of a young boy, who escapes his father’s control and helps a slave named Jim to escape from being sold to a slave trader by travelling along the Mississippi River. Similar to this is the story of The Catcher in the Rye which is the tale of an young boy becoming man named Holden, who escapes from his school by running away, and so travels around the county acting like a young adult to escape his ‘childhood’ to prove he can be an independent adult.