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How Does Mark Twain Use Biblical Allusions In Huckleberry Finn

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In the Mark Twain's novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Huckleberry Finn is a young a boy who comes from the lowest levels of white society. Huckleberry Finn lost so many close things. For instance, he did not have a mother around to take care of him and love him. His father was known for being drunk all the time throughout this novel. Huck Finn, went on adventures, but he always went to church. Mark Twain, used biblical reference, since religion was a big part in the south; he used mythological references, and some references to the book, “How to Read Literature Like a Professor”. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was filled with references from all different literature works. One main literature were biblical references. An example from the novel that is a biblical references is in chapter 1 paragraph 4, “After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Burning Bush, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn’t care no more about him, because I don’t take no stock in dead people” (Twain 2). For Huckleberry Finn religion is about the day-today business day. However, this quote mainly talks about baby Moses and …show more content…

There was one main example of mythological characteristic, Huck Finn traveling down the Mississippi river and also the love that Huck Finn had for the natural world. This is a mythological characteristic because mythological characteristics are first and foremost, related to nature because the Greeks saw the gods in every part of nature. They grew into their adulthood by noting that the gods guided their destiny and that they needed to have a strong relationship with nature. In Greek mythology, gods and goddesses relates to natures. For instance, The God of the Sea is Poseidon, The God of the Sky is Zeus, and The God of the Underworld is

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