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I don't get it, either. Huckleberry sounds like a food, not a person, like Atticus. They both strike me as being part of an idealized picture of the south. Huck Finn is the free childhood, no responsibilities, just skipping school, floating on the Mississippi. Atticus is Scout's childhood memories about when her dad took a case where he had a client who the community hated, and now he appears to be racist like everyone else. (I haven't read Go Set a Watchman, but from the reviews, he isn't the man Scout recalled.