In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is not educated, but through his adventures he proves himself to be more quick-witted by outsmarting the educated people throughout the novel. Huck was not raised in what you would consider a “proper home” and as a result of that he has a lack of education. Huck’s pap was the town drunk and for a short period of time, in paps absence, Huck was taken in by Widow Douglas as an attempt to civilize him. The Widow put Huck into school and shortly after his admission he was forced to leave school due to the returning of pap. Pap did not treat Huck in anyway like a father figure would treat his son, “I was all over welts.” (Twain 24) pap beat on Huck and locked him up whenever he went out just so that he knew he wouldn’t try and escape “He go to going away so much, too, and locking me in“ (Twain 24). Eventually, Huck grew tired of the abuse and staged his own murder. Huck escaped his pap, with the goal of reaching Cairo to freedom along the Mississippi River, not expecting all of the adventures he’d come across along the way. Through Huck’s adventures you will notice how his morality changes as a result of the people he meets along the way. The way that Twain satires education and the civilization of society in the forms of how they handle their problems, thievery, and drunkenness all lead up to unveiling how, despite Huck’s lack of education, his level of common sense is greater than that of an “educated” person and that Huck’s ideas of right and wrong have changed since the beginning of the novel. Mark Twain starts the beginning of the novel by satirizing huck’s education with humor (Nyirubugara).“I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, an... ... middle of paper ... ...rnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.” (Twain 126) The biggest events that resulted in the most growth in Huck were when the king and duke posed as the two brother and When the king turned Jim in. The event where the king and duke posed as the two brother’s of Peter Wilk’s is when Huck started to realize the concept of right and wrong. Huck participated in the cons of the king and duke only to protect Jim but, once Huck developed a relationship with people he began to realize his faults in the situations. When Huck realized that him and Jim were becoming friends he was able to recognize that it was wrong of him to play mean tricks on his friends. Shortly after meeting Mary Jane Huck established a relationship with her because, she too did not like when slaves were mistreated.
So when Huck fakes his death and runs away to live on an island he is faced with yet another problem, which revolves around the controversial issue of the time of racism. While living on the island he meets Jim, who was a slave, but Huck soon learns that he has run off and now in the process of making his way up north to Canada. Here Huck is faced with his first tough decision, to go with Jim and help him, or just go and tell the officials of a runaway slave and get the reward. Huck reluctantly joins Jim and promises to get him to free land for the sake of a good adventure, but he still feels guilty to be conversing with a runaway slave, let alone help him escape. Along the way Huck has many challenges, which are just like this one.
When one is young they must learn from their parents how to behave. A child's parents impose society's unspoken rules in hope that one day their child will inuitivly decerne wrong from right and make decisions based on their own judgment. These moral and ethical decisions will affect one for their entire life. In Mark Twains, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is faced with the decision of choosing to regard all he has been taught to save a friend, or listen and obey the morals that he has been raised with. In making his decision he is able to look at the situation maturely and grow to understand the moral imbalances society has. Hucks' decisions show his integrity and strength as a person to choose what his heart tells him to do, over his head.
Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the greatest American novels ever written. The story is about Huck, a young boy who is coming of age and is escaping from his drunken father. Along the way he stumbles across Miss Watson's slave, Jim, who has run away because he overhead that he would be sold. Throughout the story, Huck is faced with the moral dilemma of whether or not to turn Jim in. Mark Twain has purposely placed these two polar opposites together in order to make a satire of the society's institution of slavery. Along the journey, Twain implies his values through Huck on slavery, the two-facedness of society, and represents ideas with the Mississippi River.
When his dad came to see him when he was staying with the widow, he blew up at Huck, saying that Huck was trying to be better than him and mock him by going to school. That could have been an underlying factor of why Huck might have rejected the idea of structured education. “ You’re educated, too, they say- can read and write,. You think you’re better’n your father, now, don’t you, because he can’t?”.
In the novel Huck Finn, the author repeatedly uses satire to ridicule the insanity of racial ignorance and inequity of the time period. With his masterful use of role reversal, irony, and the obvious portrayal of double standards, Twain exemplifies the injustices of different races contrasting them with example after example of counter-argument shown through the friendship and adventures of Jim and Huck together.
...ays a sense of maturity. In addition to this, Huck was able to create his own morals rather than the ones given to him by society enabling him to conceive his own identity.
No matter in the past or present, the world never lacks actors and their nauseating affectations can be seen everywhere in life. They are pretending to have all those perfect beliefs and feelings and acting like the greatest people ever while they are really not. Satire is used by Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to depict how all kinds of people say one thing and do another in America in early 1800s, demonstrating that Mark Twain wants readers to be aware of the hypocrisy and ignorance of American society.
Ransomed? Whats that???.. it means that we keep them till they're dead (10). This dialogue reflects Twains witty personality. Mark Twain, a great American novelist, exploits his humor, realism, and satire in his unique writing style in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain, born in 1835, wrote numerous books throughout his lifetime. Many of his books include humor; they also contain deep cynicism and satire on society. Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, exemplifies his aspects of writing humor, realism, and satire throughout the characters and situations in his great American novel.
Together with Pap, the King and the Duke do their share to put putrid moral ideas into the immature mind of Huck. The King and the Duke earn their living pulling scams on their fellow Americans. For instance, they advertised the "Royal Nonesuch" as a "thrilling tragedy" and charged the farmers in the area fifty cents to come and see it (121). But, the entire production consisted of the King walking around on all fours naked. They had promised a good show to the crowd, the King and the Duke did not think it was wrong to give the crowd nothing except for an empty pocket. The message they sent to Huck is that it is acceptable to cheat and lie.
Huck Finn learns from the actions of people around him, what kind of a person he is going to be. He is both part of the society and an outlier of society, and as such he is given the opportunity to make his own decisions about what is right and what is wrong. There are two main groups of characters that help Huck on his journey to moral maturation. The first group consists of Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, and the judge. They portray society and strict adherence to rules laid out by authority. The second group consists of Pap, the King, and the Duke. They represent outliers of society who have chosen to alienate themselves from civilized life and follow no rules. While these characters all extremely important in Huck’s moral development, perhaps the most significant character is Jim, who is both a fatherly figure to Huck as well as his parallel as far as limited power and desire to escape. Even though by the end of the novel, Huck still does not want to be a part of society, he has made a many choices for himself concerning morality. Because Huck is allowed to live a civilized life with the Widow Douglas, he is not alienated like his father, who effectively hates civilization because he cannot be a part of it. He is not treated like a total outsider and does not feel ignorant or left behind. On the other hand, because he does not start out being a true member of the society, he is able to think for himself and dismiss the rules authority figures say are correct. By the end of the novel, Huck is no longer a slave to the rules of authority, nor is he an ignorant outsider who looks out only for himself. This shows Huck’s moral and psychological development, rendering the description of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” as a picaresq...
In the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck rejects "sivilized" life. He dreads the rules and conformities of society such as religion, school, and anything else that will eventually make him civilized. He feels cramped in his new surroundings at the Widow Douglas's house. He would rather be in his old rags and sugar-hogshead because he was free and satisfied. He felt out of place when he tried being "sivilized" because he grew up fending for himself and to him it felt really lonely. Huck Finn grew up living in the woods and pretty much raised himself because his pap was a drunk. He never had a civilized lifestyle and he believed that his way of living was good enough for him. He was free to do what ever he liked and that is how he learned to live. He did not believe in school because all you need to know to live is not found in a book that you read at school. He believed that you learned by living out in the wild. Huck would rather be an individual than conform to society. Huck would rather follow his heart then his head and because of this Huck is ruled as a bad person because in society your suppose to use your head. Huck is being penalized for his beliefs and he does not want to be apart of a lifestyle that does not support his ways. For instance his choice not to turn in Jim shows that Huck understands why Jim is escaping. Huck sees Jim as a friend not as a slave and so he truly is able to see that society's way of treaty Jim is wrong. Huck is portrayed as a boy who sees life at face value and not by the set "standards" of the "sivilized" society. The rejection of the "sivilized" lifestyles shows that Huck does not agree with it rules. Because of this, he is able to see life from different perspectives. He can sympathize with all the class in society. He learns to figure out what is morally correct and wrong. Through out his journey down the river, Huck is able to learn more about himself and others.
Mark Twain, a famous American writer-satirist wrote many books highly acclaimed throughout the world. For his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the literary establishment recognized him as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. This novel is about a teenage boy by the name of Huck Finn whose father is an alcoholic. Because of his violence, Huck runs away and finds a runaway slave Jim. Instead of turning Jim in, Huck goes against society and makes a decision to help Jim break free from slavery. As they travel together, Huck learns more and more about Jim and starts to understand that the common stereotype of black people is wrong. Huck sees there is no difference between Jim and any white man he knows except for skin color. Risking his life and overcoming many difficulties on the way, Huck succeeds in freeing Jim. Focusing on racism, alcoholism and mob mentality, Mark Twain uses his enthusiastic style of writing and satirizes the three traits throughout the novel.
For example, Huck's father, Pap, is an abusive parent. Pap is constantly putting Huck down and making him feel worthless. Pap tells Huck to “Drop that school, you hear?” because Pap thinks Huck is not worthy of an education since his ancestors never had one (32). Huck also is forced to fake his death just to get away from his own father. Huck “took the axe and smashed the door” to make it look like someone broke into their house to kill him (42). These extreme lengths Huck had to do to escape the inhumanity of his father are one example of Twain's plae against man's inhumanity. In addition, Huck witness the murders of the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons during a duel. Huck has to see the immunity these two families show towards each other during the duel. Huck asks one of the younger Grangerfords, Buck, why they are fighting and Buck says, “they don't know what the row was about in the first place.” (112). Twain is showing how people are so inhumane to others without even knowing why, Huck even says “It made me so sick I almost fell out of the tree” when he witnessed the duel (116). Furthermore, Huck sees how inhumane the Duke and Dauphin are when they trick the Wilks sisters. The Duke and Dauphin pretend to be the Wilks long lost uncles that are coming to comfort their poor orphan nieces, when in reality they are there to steal their fortune. Huck says that the king talked about how upset and sad he was because of the loss of brother till it was “just sickening” (162). Huck hated how the Duke and Dauphin were awful enough to steal from the innocent girls. The acts of man's inhumanity to man in Huckleberry Finn may not be as dramatic compared to The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, they are still detrimental to a young boy like
The trait of selfishness is shown in Huck's father, Pap, and the conmen referred to as the king and duke. In the novel, Pap was a violent, ignorant, drunkard who wanted pleasure for himself at the expense of his son. After hearing about Huck's fortune, Pap finally reunited wi...
Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain illustrates the bond formed between Huck, the young white protagonist, and Jim, Huck's black companion. Huck's father Pap, while he was still alive, had beaten Huck repeatedly, kidnapped and scared his son to the extent, that Huck, out of fear, feigns his own death to escape Pap's grasp. While Huck and Jim travel down the river it becomes apparent that Jim is more of a father figure to Huck than his biological father. Pap teaches the virtues of a life not worth living, while Jim gives Huck the proper fatherly support, compassion, and knowledge for Huck to become a man. Although Huck and Jim come from separate racial backgrounds their time together allows them to surpass their ethnic segregation and become true friends, and family.