Christianity In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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In Mark Twain’s book,titled Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is the main character who faced many different situations, some good and some bad. He also struggled with understanding Christianity and its benefits, which Twain mostly dismissed in the book.Firstly, Huck struggled with prayer; in Chapter III, he asked for a fishing rod, which he did receive, but without hooks. He concluded that prayer is ineffective until Chapter VIII, when he obtained bread in the river that was intended to find hiscorpse. He said, “...I reckon... somebody prayed that this bread would find me, and here it has gone and done it....but [praying]don’t work for me, and I reckon it don’t work for only just the right kind”(45).Huck’s assumption is nearly true, sinceGod

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