In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, it follows the protagonist, Huck, and his journey for freedom for him and, Jim. The novel depicts society during the 19th century, in the novel Christianity is prevalent. Twain portrays Christians as unmannered and gullible (which contrasts the high status they hold in society) to show the hypocrisy in religion within the 19th century.
Huckleberry Finn encounters many people that claim to be Christians, yet their actions don’t prove it. Huck and Tom Sawyer’s gang are planning what their group entails, much of it are violent acts against people and benefiting off of the misfortune of others. Upon further planning they have schedule conflicts, “Ben Rogers said he couldn’t get out much, only …show more content…
Huck recalls the experience as so, “Next Sunday we all went to church…The men took their guns along, so did Buck, 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, and such-like tiresomness; but everybody said it was a good sermon…” (Twain 109). Twain juxtaposes the Grangerford-Shepherdson’s feud with the sermon which is about loving each other to emphasis the irony of the situation. Both families are supposed to be Christian, yet they cannot apply the lesson of the service to their life. Twain is trying to comment on society at the time, Christians would preach to love each other, yet turn a blind eye to their mistreatment of …show more content…
Aunt Sally reacts to a made up story about a boat sinking, “No’m. Killed a nigger’ ‘Well it’s lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt. Two years ago last Christmas… Lally Rook, and she blowed out a cylinder-head and crippled a man. And I think he died afterwards. He was a Baptist’ ’’ (Twain 221). While Aunt Sally means these words with good intentions, she is disregarding blacks as humans entirely. This shows kind Christians exist, but they’re still products of society. Uncle Silas is also an upstanding citizen, “He was the innocentest, best old souls… he was a preacher, too… [log church] which he built it himself at his own expense...” (Twain 226). Uncle Silas is a staple contributing member in the community, he and his wife are the perfect pair. The only fault he has which seems to be overlooked, even by Huck, is he owns slaves. Christians in Huckleberry Finn are mainly portrayed in a negative connotation. They’re depicted as unmannered and naive. Christian’s actions embody what they’re against which is contradicting. In some cases, they’re ignorant and live in a protected bubble, where they’re not punished for what they do or say because they’re the
Huckleberry Finn encounters many people that claim to be Christians, yet their actions don’t prove it. Huck and Tom Sawyer’s gang are planning what their group entails, much of it are violent acts against people and benefiting off of the misfortune of others. Upon further planning they have schedule conflicts, “Ben Rogers said he couldn’t get out much, only …show more content…
Huck recalls the experience as so, “Next Sunday we all went to church…The men took their guns along, so did Buck, 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, and such-like tiresomness; but everybody said it was a good sermon…” (Twain 109). Twain juxtaposes the Grangerford-Shepherdson’s feud with the sermon which is about loving each other to emphasis the irony of the situation. Both families are supposed to be Christian, yet they cannot apply the lesson of the service to their life. Twain is trying to comment on society at the time, Christians would preach to love each other, yet turn a blind eye to their mistreatment of …show more content…
Aunt Sally reacts to a made up story about a boat sinking, “No’m. Killed a nigger’ ‘Well it’s lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt. Two years ago last Christmas… Lally Rook, and she blowed out a cylinder-head and crippled a man. And I think he died afterwards. He was a Baptist’ ’’ (Twain 221). While Aunt Sally means these words with good intentions, she is disregarding blacks as humans entirely. This shows kind Christians exist, but they’re still products of society. Uncle Silas is also an upstanding citizen, “He was the innocentest, best old souls… he was a preacher, too… [log church] which he built it himself at his own expense...” (Twain 226). Uncle Silas is a staple contributing member in the community, he and his wife are the perfect pair. The only fault he has which seems to be overlooked, even by Huck, is he owns slaves. Christians in Huckleberry Finn are mainly portrayed in a negative connotation. They’re depicted as unmannered and naive. Christian’s actions embody what they’re against which is contradicting. In some cases, they’re ignorant and live in a protected bubble, where they’re not punished for what they do or say because they’re the