Huck Finn Lessons Analysis

After the Duke and the King preform their preposterous play, Huck tries to justify to Jim that because they are royal it is acceptable. Twain juxtaposes the lessons Huck has learned in school with his humanity growing to satirize education systems. The Duke and the King have performed many tricks on people in the small towns across the rivers for their own indulgence and to steal money as they are greedy but the first trick on Jim and Huck’s raft trip was actually performed by Huck. During the thick fog, Huck and Jim become separated which is really emotionally taxing for Jim so when Huck returns he pretends that Jim was dreaming as he thinks it will be funny. He is playing off Jims emotions for his own entertainment much like the Duke and the King with The Royal Nonesuch with the small Arkansas town. Afterwards, Jim does not understand why they are doing this to the people so it is explained to him by saying that Kings in the past have done much worse than what they are doing so it is okay. He also justifies their actions by saying that “It’s the way they’re raised” (157). Although it may seem like Huck is talking down to Jim by telling him this outrageous story of Kings it is because he is trying to

Henry the VIII only had six wives and of those six he only killed two. Huck also informs Jim that he put together the Domesday Book, actually constructed by William the Conqueror, with stories that he would make all of his wives tell him, when in reality it was a document stating what or how much each landholder had in land and livestock plus its worth. There are many other false pieces of information in Huck’s speech to Jim. Although the story was exaggerated for Jim’s sake, the only place Huck would have learned this information was in school and he does not even remember it