Pap’s Cabin in Illinois and Widow Douglas’ Cabin in St. Petersburg

                Pap’s Cabin and St. Petersburg is a significant symbol in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Pap’s Cabin is located in Illinois, a free state, on the shore, three miles across the Mississippi River from St. Petersburg. The audience is faced with the reality of how poorly slaves are treated and the constant grief they must overcome. This assists in developing the character of Huckleberry Finn because he is put into the similar position of a slave. Here, Huck is ridiculed, abused and kept against his own will by his delusional father, which leads Huckleberry into orienting his escape. Even though Mark Twain has done a compelling job clarifying the details of an ideal slave’s routine with his descriptive technique, the truth is people will never fully comprehend what people have been through. People may have heard other people’s stories, but they never once will ever feel what those people did in their hearts. Pap’s Cabin highlights the theme of fear, isolation and imprisonment. The atmosphere is awfully uncivilized. St. Petersburg, on the other hand is located in Missouri on the opposite direction of the Mississippi River from Pap’s Cabin. St. Petersburg is a slave-holding society that has no compassion for the freedom of people of African descent. This is the location of where Huckleberry’s adventures begin, for every reader is aware that Huck will not stay with the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson for long. There are extremely strict rules in the household for Huck is in the process of being trained to be civilized with etiquette manners, for he highly dislikes.