Huck Finn Motivation Analysis

Intelligence from Motivation
Some of the most intelligent people had little to no traditional education. In Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, the protagonist Huck encounters a variety of people while he is floating down the Mississippi river. Huck is accompanied by a runaway slave, Jim, both Huck and Jim are running away from their lives to freedom. Throughout the adventure, Huck comes across a variety of people, with different levels of education and intelligence. In Huckleberry Finn, Huck encounters people with a variety of education experiences and intelligence. Huck learns throughout his adventures, intelligent people do not always have a lot of education. Society today is similar; Intelligence comes from motivation as well as the

Huck learns throughout his adventures, intelligent people do not always have a lot of education. Huck realizes while Jim has not had a lot of education, he is intelligent. “But me and Jim was consulting—and thinking. And after we’d thought a minute, I says: ‘Say it, Jim,’” (Twain). This quote occurs after Huck and Tom help Jim escape and Tom was shot. Jim and Huck were discussing what to do. Jim has not had a lot of education. However he is intelligent, and Huck realises this. Huck knows Jim had something important to say. Throughout the adventures, Huck has realised that Jim is a real person with good ideas. Moreover, intelligent ideas, he knew that Tom would not survive without a doctor. While Tom, who had a lot of education is unintelligent. “‘Ransomed? What’s that?’ ‘I don’t know. But that’s what they do. I’ve seen it in books; and so of course that’s what we’ve got to do.’ ‘But how can we do it if we don’t know what it is?’ ‘Why, blame it all, we’ve got to do it. Don’t I tell you it’s in the books?’” (Twain). This quote occurs when Huck, Tom, and friends decide they

Alexa, a junior in college, shares her ideas on Intelligence. Intelligence is determined by motivation to do required tasks. Motivation is necessary to complete basic tasks such as doing homework. Also for completing difficult tasks. Which allows someone to learn new things, (Hietpas). Alexa explains the necessity of motivation to complete simple tasks. For an individual to be intelligent they have to learn new things. To be able to learn new things, one has to have the motivation to learn. In addition, if someone does not have motivation, they will not be able to learn anything new. Therefore, never having the opportunity to become intelligent. A mutual trait between intelligent people is wanting to learn new things. Taylor mentions her father whom she believes is intelligent without a lot of education, “[My father is] motivated to constantly be learning new things. He is not told, he wants to learn,” (Nelson). In the quote Taylor analyzed her father who only had a high school education. She explains that he is someone she considers highly intelligent. Intelligence is determined by motivation to learn new things and the tasks done in one’s free time. Taylor’s father is intelligent because of the motivation to constantly be learning new things. He chooses to learn new things in his free time and has the motivation to do so. Although, he might not have had as much traditional school as