Huck Finn Argumentative Essay

My mother has always told me that you could meet the most attractive person in the world, but if their personality does not show the same way, they no longer seem attractive. This moral, that my mother has told me my entire life, shines bright in today's society. A place where this is prominent is in the the entertainment industry. Take the movie Mean Girls, for example, The story follows a girl named Cady who falls in with the stereotypical popular crowd. They are pretty in pink, especially on Wednesdays, and always have the newest designer handbags. As Cady gets to know theses girls, she realizes that their pleasant appearance is degraded with their rotten personalities. Much like my mothers ideals, and the movie Mean Girls, The Adventures

Hucks admiration for Tom is prominent throughout Huck Finn. Because of this envy, Huck often times is seen giving into Toms empty-headed stunts. This topic is touched greatly when Huck discover the lantern, “I got an old tin lamp . . . none of the genies come” (11). Tom proposes all these elaborated ideas as part of his imagination. Huck automatically assumes what Tom is saying is true, and for that reason, believes that if the lamp is rubbed, a genie will magically appear. Hucks ignorant thinking is expressed in this part of the novel because he justifies any odd things Tom says, because he believes Tom is so wise. This flows into the fact that Huck believes that if he actually were to leave the group, they would kill someone he loves, “So I offered them Miss Watson - they could kill her“ (6). Huck honestly believed that the group was the real deal, and that the group would honestly kill someone if he left or told. From this, Huck’s poor, naive decisions shines through especially when he is with Tom. This could roll over into the fact that Huck envies Tom and how brave he is, even though Tom’s choices come across as poor to most people. An example of this could be when Tom plans Jim’s escape. “We’ll dig him out. It’ll take about a week!” (177). Huck knows deep down that digging him out is not the smartest thing, yet he

This may come from the fact that, according to the “Notice” in the front of the book, “Persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished” (Notice). This note, that Twain embedded into the first pages of the book, gives clear evidence that there is no hope in finding morals throughout Huck Finn. This, however, is incorrect due to the fact that Twain had his own motive in mind when he wrote the notice which was, people are gullible. There is a poster in many classrooms across the country that says “If you say gullible really slow it sounds like orange” and more times than not, children can be heard whispering “gullible” slowly because they fell for the trick. This is similar to the notice, in the sense that one will read the message and automatically assume that Huck Finn does not have any morals. Which ultimately proves that one is naive and gullible. Not only does Twain use the notice to prove humanities ignorance, but he also embeds several example of naive behavior in the storyline as well. An example would be when everyone truly believed Huck was murdered. Confused, Tom abruptly said, “Weren't you ever murdered at all?” (170). When Tom and Huck reunite, Tom is stunned because he thought Huck was actually murdered. This shows Tom is dumb and naive because, even at that point in time, they should have been able to identify Huck’s body in some sort of way, or realized