In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain gives direction to the reader about characters that have traits of greed for material or their own self wanting to have wealth to show how he thinks about the problems with our communities dealing with greed and wealth. He hopes he can make an impact on people so they can better themselves in the long run. In society today we define greed by excessive desire for wealth, property, etc. We see this in our society greed has triggered people to just care about money, to become rich, and have fortune. Just like, we see in the book with Pap and him coming back for the fortune and the King and the Duke with the town’s people.
Mark Twain definitely shows greed when Pap comes back to get money from Huck, …show more content…
“He told them he was a pirate- been a pirate for thirty years, and he was home now, and thanks to goodness he'd been robbed last night. So the king went all through the crowd with his hat, swabbing his eyes, and blessing the people and praising them and thanking them for being so good to the poor pirates away off there and got back to raft and he collected 87 dollars”(Twain page 100). These two con men fake an act in order to self-gain and make money off this church in order to have wealth and go up in society. He even went out of his own way to make himself cry in order for everyone to hand over a collection for him. This shows even back then people would do anything for just a quick buck than a job. In the same fashion when the King and Duke perform a “first class show” for a big town just to get big bucks and leave.” he rolled up the curtain, and the next minute the king come a-prancing out on all fours, naked; and he was painted all over, ring-streaked-and-striped, all sorts of colors, and then the duke lets the curtain down, and bows to the people”(Twain page 114). The crowd soon realizes that they have been “sold” for watching this horrible play. They do not charge the platform because they would be fools, then they tell everyone now the King and the Duke are the real fools. After the play somehow they
Mark Twain definitely shows greed when Pap comes back to get money from Huck, …show more content…
“He told them he was a pirate- been a pirate for thirty years, and he was home now, and thanks to goodness he'd been robbed last night. So the king went all through the crowd with his hat, swabbing his eyes, and blessing the people and praising them and thanking them for being so good to the poor pirates away off there and got back to raft and he collected 87 dollars”(Twain page 100). These two con men fake an act in order to self-gain and make money off this church in order to have wealth and go up in society. He even went out of his own way to make himself cry in order for everyone to hand over a collection for him. This shows even back then people would do anything for just a quick buck than a job. In the same fashion when the King and Duke perform a “first class show” for a big town just to get big bucks and leave.” he rolled up the curtain, and the next minute the king come a-prancing out on all fours, naked; and he was painted all over, ring-streaked-and-striped, all sorts of colors, and then the duke lets the curtain down, and bows to the people”(Twain page 114). The crowd soon realizes that they have been “sold” for watching this horrible play. They do not charge the platform because they would be fools, then they tell everyone now the King and the Duke are the real fools. After the play somehow they