Critical analysis of huckleber
Critical analysis of huckleberCritical Analysis of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain describes the
journey of a young boy and a runaway slave, Jim, up the Mississippi
River. One of the most important themes of the book is that society is
cruel. The book's tone also changes. Sometimes its serious, other
times its funny, even silly. The book is classic because the tone
surprises and intrigues the reader while the themes teach the reader
moral lessons.
While Huck is on his journey he realizes that society is cruel. An
example of this would be when Buck tells Huck, "A man has a quarrel
with another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kills
him; then the other brothers on both sides goes for one another... and
by and by everybody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud"(Twain
109). Pap, Huck's father, was very mean to everyone, but especially
Huck. Pap cannot read and does not want his son to be better than
himself. Pap doesn't like the fact that Widow Douglas is trying to
"civilize" him. Pap comes home every night and physically abuses
Huck. During the day Pap would lock Huck in the cabin until he
returned in order to keep Huck from escaping. Nothing can harm a
child more than neglect and abuse.
The two ladies that take Huck in off the streets are Mrs. Watson
and the Widow Douglas. Mrs. Watson has several slaves, one of
whom was Jim. It gets to the point where she had no more use for
Jim, so she decides to sell him to New Orleans. Her actions are going
to separate and destroy a family. Jim decides that he would rather run
away than be torn from his family. This is another example of society
being cruel. Mrs. Watson doesn't have any use for Jim anymore so
she decides to sell him like he is a piece of property.
During the journey, Huck and Jim run into the King and the Duke.
The King and the Duke aren't anything but two "rapscallions" who
claim to be royalty so that they can get special treatment. One day
they come upon a religious camp meeting, and the King and the Duke
make up a story about being reformed pirates. He tells the
congregation that every time he reforms a pirate he says to them,
"Don't you thank me, don't you give me no credit; it all belongs to them
dear people in Pokeville camp meeting, natural brothers and
benefactors of the race, and that dear preacher up there, the truest
friend a pirate ever had"(Twain 133). Then he explodes into tears and
the people of the camp meeting do, too. The King uses people's
feelings in order to gain wealth.
They go through towns and put on such...
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