The greatest men have overcome some of the most prominent situations in history but they have also been defeated by some. They could not be named the greatest without the trials they faced. Nelson Mandela overcame apartheid, Alexander the Great conquered the most belligerent fighters in war, and Martin Cooper made a wireless phone. Obstacles make a person stronger and provide them with the wisdom they need to triumph. In ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’, Huck Finn is a motherless child and is trying to escape his drunk and abusive father, Hester Prynne in ‘The Scarlet Letter’ commits a sin so seemingly horrifying that she can now only live a life of public shame and loneliness, and Anthem’s Equality 7-2521 has a burning curiosity to know more than what is given to him which almost gets him killed. Throughout these three novels, the characters are bound by some immensely unique circumstances. All of which they overcome. To begin, in ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’, Huck is staying with two wealthy, religious crazed sisters who have adopted him because of his desperate need for a guardian. Huck’s restrictions begin when his father returns back home and learns that Huck has a plentiful amount of money and is going to school which especially makes him angry. “None of the family couldn’t before they died. I can’t; and here you’re a-swelling yourself up like this, I ain’t the man to stand it-you hear?” (Twain 30). Huck Finn is trying to become his own person by receiving and education but his father is trying to keep him from being better than he is. Furthermore, in order for Huck’s father to be completely satisfied, he kidnaps Huck and tries to force his lifestyle on him. “And they’ll follow that meal track to the lake and go browsing down the creek that leads out of it to find the robbers that killed me and took the things. They won’t ever hunt the river for anything but my dead carcass” (Twain 44). Tired of trying to be controlled by his father, Huck fakes his own death thinking that once they don’t find him in the river, they will stop looking for him. When he reaches his new destination, he realizes that his friend Jim who is a runaway slave is also on this island. Jim is another restriction for Huck because it is illegal and unethical to help a slave. “I roused him out and says: ‘Get up and hump yourself, Jim! There ain’t a minute to lose.They’re after us” (Twain 73). The two have to repeatedly hide and lie to survive on this extremely dangerous journey they are on. Although Jim is one of Huck Finn’s restrictions, the knowledge he possesses and the apparent father figure role he plays to Huck, helps them on their journey to freedom. Residing in continuous fear and his hunger to live a free-willed life has helped him overcome these restrictions. Additionally, a wild and passionate Hester Prynne commits adultery against her husband, which in the strict Puritan society that she lives in, is the parallel to committing murder. The result of her transgression is her daughter, Pearl. She is the equivalent of the scarlet letter that grazes Hester’s chest daily. Pearl is most likely Hester’s largest restriction because she is a constant reminder to herself and to the people in her town of what she’s done, but is also the best thing that has ever happened to her. “Day after day, she looked
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Huckleberry Finn, Hester Prynne, and Equality 7-2521 are all different from everyone else in their society and are reprimanded for being unique and or having a unique circumstance. They all go through a time where everyone else is trying to tell them how to live their lives. Huck Finn in ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ is restricted by his abusive father and his overly religious adoptive mothers but overcomes that by going off and raising himself, The Scarlet Letter’s Hester Prynne lives in isolation because of a horrible sin she commits, and Equality 7-2521 of ‘Anthem’ is smarter than everyone else in their community which becomes the biggest obstacle of his life. They go through some extremely difficult circumstances. All of which they
Huckleberry Finn, Hester Prynne, and Equality 7-2521 are all different from everyone else in their society and are reprimanded for being unique and or having a unique circumstance. They all go through a time where everyone else is trying to tell them how to live their lives. Huck Finn in ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ is restricted by his abusive father and his overly religious adoptive mothers but overcomes that by going off and raising himself, The Scarlet Letter’s Hester Prynne lives in isolation because of a horrible sin she commits, and Equality 7-2521 of ‘Anthem’ is smarter than everyone else in their community which becomes the biggest obstacle of his life. They go through some extremely difficult circumstances. All of which they