Huck Finn Character Traits

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In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Huck Finn is the narrator of the novel.He is the main character ,narrator, and protagonist of the novel. Hucks fathers name is pap. Pap is a horrible father to Huck , because he drinks and beats huck. Pap also does not like the fact that pap can read. Even Though huck has never been to school, Throughout that novel he shows several things that show he is a very intelligent and mature for a boy thats only thirteen years old. Huck Finn is a very clever,rebellious and caring young man. Through the novel Huck shows that he is very clever in several ways.”If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.”(page 127,chapter 19).In the novel Pap does want his child to act the way an average …show more content…
nd abusive mn who has a very bad drinking problem.This quote shows that Huck is a very clever boy because although he has had a very bad relationship with his father.He still manages to find a way to learn something from his father.”Every time he got money he got drunk; and every time he got drunk he …show more content…
I didn’t want to go to school much before, but I reckoned I’d go now to spite pap”(chapter 6 ). Huck Finn knows that his father does not want him to go to school and get an education. Huck doesn't care what papa says. Every time that Pap catches Huck learning he beats him. Paps beatings did not stop Huck finn from going to school because Huck enjoyed being rebellious and not listening to Pap. At this time in Society children were supposed to listen to their elders, But Huck seeked pleasure in making Pap angry and not respecting his wishes of not being smarter then him. Huck did not want to go to school ,but since pap hated it he decided to go just to annoy

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