The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain

Huck is peer pressured by society to believe owning slaves is right because everyone else does; Huck continues to have moral confliction with this belief throughout the book. In contrast, the conflict between the families has prevailed so long that the families cannot even recall why they war; however, they senselessly execute each other because it has essentially become a ritual due to familial pressures. When Huck asks Buck Grangerford what a feud is, Buck explains a feud and implies that everyone in the immediate and non-immediate family is involved. When Huck begins to wonder what continues to provoke the issues between the families, he questions Buck, “What was the trouble about, Buck? –land”? (pg. 197). Buck inconclusively responds, “I reckon maybe – I don’t know... Oh, yes, pa knows, I reckon, and some other old folks;

In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain in the 19th century is about a young boy named Huck Finn and Jim, a runaway slave who go on an adventure. The two travel on a raft along the Mississippi river creating a bond and making memories. Mark Twain presents Huckleberry Finn as a dynamic character who at first views Jim as property and eventually considers Jim as a friend, showing a change in maturity.

The Grangerfords, who allow Huck to stay with them for as long as he would like, have been involved in a murderous feud with the Shepherdson family for decades, only halting their incessant fighting to attend church with one another on Sundays. Page 109 describes this, stating, “Next Sunday we all went to church...The men took their guns along and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching-all about brotherly love...everybody said it was a good sermon.” Once more, Twain uses irony to highlight the hypocrisy of human beings, specifically of Christians, by describing how the rival families put their differences aside long enough to listen to a sermon on brotherly love, only to attempt to kill each other the very next day, undermining the message of the sermon. Through the implementation of irony, Twain succeeds at criticizing the hypocritical nature of many Christians and of the societies in which they live.

The fight ends and the Swede rains as victorious. The second conflict starts when the gambler kills the Swede in the bar. Earlier in the story, the Swede had been acting very strangely after drinking from what Scully had given; he had been totally a different person. The Easterner had seen Johnnie cheating in the game but he did not stand for it. Later in the story he reveals this and says that all of them were responsible for the death of the Swede.

Transcendentalism can be observed throughout the text of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and through the text textbook examples of Transcendentalism can be seen from the cast of characters and Huck himself and the situations/adventures that he gets himself into throughout his journey, a journey which enables him to develop his Transcendental ideals.. Transcendentalism is a vital part of The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. By reading and studying the content of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn it is perceived that Transcendentalism is a prevalent influence that can be attributed to plot and the motivations of the Protagonist.

What is the joy of having a sibling? Is it that you always have someone to beat up on? Or is it you have someone to express all your feelings to, knowing they aren’t listening or understanding it? Siblings can sometimes be there for you, for anything that you may need. Siblings are supposed to get along, but there are a big handful that don’t. Many siblings fight over redundant things such as who gets the higher quality clothing items. This rivalry shows up in the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst--and it does not have a very satisfying ending.The story is full of symbolism and it teaches us to cherish every little moment with our siblings and be grateful that we have them in our lives.

Starting at the beginning of the novel, Miss Watson and the widow have custody of Huck. He praises a boy named Tom Sawyer who has decided he is going to start a gang. In order for Huck to join the gang, he has to agree to the murdering of his family if they break the rules. At this point in the book one of the boys realized that Huck did not have a real family. “They talked it over...and so I offered them Miss Watson-they could kill her.” (Twain 17-18). Here you bear witness to huck at his utmost point of immorality. A person with morals would not ever sacrifice the life of someone else just in order to be part of a gang. This is where you can consider the start of Huck’s Moral improvement.

The feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepardsons adds to Huck's disliking of society. In this

Year after year The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is placed in the top ten banned books in America. People find the novel to be oppressing and racially insensitive due to its frequent use of the n-word and the portrayal of blacks as a Sambo caricature. However, this goes against Mark Twain’s intent of bringing awareness to the racism in America. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is classified under the genre of satire and is narrated by a fictional character named Huckleberry Finn. The novel takes place in the south during the year 1845. With his abusive father, and no mother, Huck is left feeling lonely, and as if he has place to call his home. So he decides to leave town, and on in his journey where he encounters a slave he’s familiar with, Jim, who is also running away. This story captures their relationship and growth as they face many obstacles on their way to freedom. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn satirizes people’s greed and violent behavior by mocking the stereotype of southern hospitality.

People often let their pride interfere with their plan of actions and cloud their vision of the world surrounding them. The Hatfields and McCoys, two Southern families, are a perfect example in history of how one’s pride can cause radical actions. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the Grangerfords are an aristocratic family in a heated feud with the Shepherdsons. Their feud has been going on for multiple centuries, and only Col. Grangerford truly knows how it started. Although Huck extols the positive traits of the Grangerfords, Twain demonstrates that their pride interferes with their thoughts and eventually leads them to violence.

Society can have a huge impact on an individual's moral growth. Sometimes the impact is positive but other times the learned habits and set morals of society have a negative effect. In Mark Twain's novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the main character, Huck, struggles with what society teaches him and with what he knows to be good and true. During different conflicts concerning either the king and duke, various women or Jim, Huck's sound heart wins the battle over his conscience, which the reader knows to be ill-formed.

A major theme of the novel is the hypocrisy and double standards that are evident in the society surrounding Huck. This trait is found especially within Christian and religious types in the novel. Twain shows almost every good Christian in the novel as having a generous and kind side, which completely contradicts much of their actions. Twain believes that this hypocrisy is the underlining element that makes religion skeptical. As it is seen in the book, almost every good Christian contradicts himself or herself in some way. Perhaps Huck's first example of this was when the Widow Douglas did not allow him to smoke, as it was a mean practice. However, “she took snuff too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself” (Twain 2). Another example was the Grangerfords. Huck described this family as very nice and kind and even considered Buck a good friend. But once again, the hypocrisy of religious types was bound to come into play. These same people are slave owners and have a feud with a similar family, the Shepherdsons for reasons they don't remember. Perhaps the biggest example of this hypocrisy was when Huck went to church with the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons. As Huck explains, “the men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees.... it was pretty ornery preaching all about brotherly love” (Twain 83). It is obvious that the two families had their guns in their laps while the preacher talked about

Huck finds out who the Sheperdsons are; a rival family that lives in the same town as the Grangerfords. The two families hate each other and are in a feud. The previous reputations of class and sophistication becomes tarnished as Huck witnesses Buck, a child in the Grangerford family, kills a Sheperdson for no reason. When Huck questions Buck as to what the Sheperdson had done wrong Buck responds, "He never done nothing to me…only it's on account of the feud" (Twain 100). When Huck continues to question Buck about what exactly the feud is for, Buck fails to tell Huck the exact reason for all the hatred between the two families.

Before Mark Twain started to write two of his most famous novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark was known to use his characters to display his own thoughts and opinions. “This device allowed him to say just about anything he wanted, provided he could convincingly claim he was simply reporting what others had said.” (Twain, 1283). Mark Twain used this process to be a foundation of his lectures, by manipulating his popularly with his readers. During the story of Huckleberry Finn, the impression of racism, slavery, and religion were stated on the first few chapters. Surprisingly, this is not the reason that Mark Twain’s book was banned from schools, instead it promoted rebellion behavior that school districts did not want to teach their children about. “Huck Finn was banned in many libraries and schools … denounced in pupils not for its racial content but for [it’s] supposedly encouraging boys to swear, smoke, and run away.” (Twain, 1284). This is important to know because of this book banishment, Mark Twain skillfully wrote his attitude towards racial discrimination and religion was not the reason for the limited restrictions on his book.

On the same token, the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons have shown hypocrisy through humor by bringing their guns to church in which the “men kept… between their knees or stood them handy against the wall” (121). This is ironic since the church is a place of holiness and “all about brotherly love.” (121). Twain makes fun of the Shepherdsons and Grangerfords feud by making Huck ask Buck about the feud. Buck, unable to recall why this whole thing started or why so many people are being killed for it, is insane and idiotic. The two families don’t even know what they are fighting for yet, they take it so seriously and put themselves on the line for it. Thus, the families destroyed themselves because of foolish pride and their idiotic actions. This only shows how society is foolish and people fight over the simplest of things.