9)Possibility of Huckleberry Finn Being Homosexual.
Actual Letter: I've
visited your huck finn website. A friend proposes that
Huck was Gay. Do you believe this? He cites that his only
friends were male. And he had no obvious interest in women.
Also, he went west to escape persecution, possibly settling in
San Francisco.
Answer Given: I've
actually heard some of the debate concerning Huck and
homosexuality. Suppossedly, the claims come in, with regards to
his relation to Jim, and the very personal relationship that he
had.
However, I don't feel that Huck was gay for a number of reasons.
The first is that he is about 11 or 12 years old.. The notion of
homosexuality shouldn't really be a factor with his life.
Psycologically speaking, having relationships with men only at
his age is considered normal, even the avoidance of women.
Additionally, since the actual happenings that happened on the
raft are for the most part left up for the readers to decide, it
is possible to conjecture the possiblity of sexual encouters
between Jim and Huck, but given Huck's age, I would assume that
such relations would be better classified has child molestation
rather then homosexual tendencies. To get some possible evidence
about huck being straight, in one scene, Huck dresses as a girl,
which doesn't say much for his being straight, but he is found
out by his inability to act like a girl. Oh well, that;s just my
opinion....