In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Sun Also Rises, water cleanses Jake and Huck after each suffer a painful experience. Jake has many painful experiences where he needs to cleanse himself with water afterwards. Jake suffers a painful experience when he witnesses Frances and Cohn's altercation with each other, "As I [Jake] went out the door I looked back through the two thicknesses of glass and saw them [Frances and Cohn] sitting there. She was still talking to him." (58) Jake needs to cleanse himself in water because of the painful experience, "I [Jake] put the mail on the table, went back to the bedroom, undresse

In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Sun Also Rises, water is an element of purification that heals wounded emotions. Huck and Jake use water to receive emotional relief from society. Huck and Jake cleanse themselves, yet the purity of water remains. Water is used as a universal symbol in both works. The purity of water cleanses Jake and Huck. Jake and Huck are safe when they are around water. Huck cleanses himself in the Mississippi river. Yet, Jake cleanses himself in the San Sebastian beach. In the end, Huck and Jake receive the same relief from society's painful experiences.

Water is a spiritually calm and relaxing element. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn describes the Mississippi river as still and grand, "Well, when Tom and me [Huck] got to the edge of the hilltop we looked away down into the village . . . was the river, a whole mile broad, and awful still and grand." (8) The Mississippi River provides a comfortable and lax ambience for Huck, "When it was dark I [Huck] set by my camp-fire smoking, and feeling pretty well satisfied; but by and by it got sort of lonesome, and so I went and sat on the bank and listened to the current swashing along, and counted the stars and drift-logs and rafts that come down, and then went to bed." (39) Moreover, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn describes the Mississippi river as still, solemn and grand, "It was kind of solemn drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars . . . ." (63) The water is calm and relaxing. The Sun Also Rises describes the Irati River as smooth and deep, "The gate was up, and I [Jake] sat on one of the squared timbers and watched the smooth apron of water before the river tumbled into the falls. In the white water at the foot of the dam it was deep." (124) Both works describe water as an element that is spiritua

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