The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a funny book. It’s full of humor, from the characters to the situations they find themselves in.
Huck himself is very funny. He’s got a good sense of humor, although he sometimes doesn’t know what he’s laughing about. He also has a great imagination, which leads to some hilariously funny moments.
There are also many funny scenes in the book, such as when Huck and Jim are hiding from their enemies on an island, and Huck scares Jim by pretending to be Injun Joe with his knife drawn. This situation is especially funny because it comes out of nowhere; there’s no reason for Huck to be acting like this other than for the sake of comedy.
Boy is also very resourceful, which often leads to humorous outcomes. For example, when he was floating down the Mississippi River on his raft with Jim, he had to think fast when they came upon a steamboat full of men who were looking for them: “Well, it warn’t no time to be sentimentering round and crying because he’d got to go up-stream; no time to be lost, I mean.”
The interactions between Huck and animals are often humorous as well. For example, when Huck meets Tom Sawyer at Widow Douglas’ house, Tom tells him about his pet crow: “His name was Jim Crow; he was so black that he was just blue-black all over; shiny blue-black like tar”.
Character has many amusing encounters while pretending to be someone else. He pretends to be deaf and dumb so that he can avoid sharing his real identity with strangers. When he meets people who know him, they often have amusing reactions.
