Read the excerpt from the poem "My first memory of libraians

showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence

a. both connotative and denotative.

huck's relationship with food is a prominent theme throughout the novel, and during his time on jackson's island and working his way down river, huck revels in and enjoys his ad hoc dining. in the first chapter, we observe huck is ironically trapped in a "civilized" world, when he would prefer to live freely in nature.