Lessons Learned
In the year 2012, over 1.3 million juveniles were arrested and 700 of those children committed murder. Some people are lucky enough to have been taught the difference between right and wrong while others aren’t, and they are the ones who need them the most. Lessons are essential to every person 's’ life. We watch movies all the time where characters are stuck between death and the afterlife because they still have something left to give the world, or because the world still has something left to give to them. This state of being is called purgatory. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the main character Huckleberry Finn goes on an adventure up the Mississippi River with a man named Jim. Along the …show more content…
Huck comes ashore one night after falling out of his raft and losing Jim. He finds his way to the Grangerfords where he befriends them, only to lose that new found friendship when the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons engage in a deadly battle which kills almost everyone from both families. As he hides in a tree, Huck reflects on what happened to his friends: “his father and his two brothers [were] killed, and two or three of the enemy...I wished I hadn’t come ashore that night, to see such things. I ain’t ever going to get shut of them” (Twain 119). Violence is in every society, no matter what time period. No good can come of it; someone will always end up being hurt in every outcome that there is. Like the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons, many people feel that violence is their way of life. Drug lords, gang leaders, the military, they all inflict harm. Some do it for better and right reasons, but the hard truth is that whether you are trying to do it for the greater good or doing it just to be in control, someone is always going to end up hurting and in pain. Huck was taught this painful lesson at the cost of his friend’s life. This is one of the toughest lessons that anyone ever has to learn in life, but at the same time it is one of the most important …show more content…
Huckleberry Finn learned his lessons by traveling along the Mississippi River and making numerous stops along the way. While the river represents the state of being in purgatory, the stops he makes along the way teach him some of the most important life lessons. The con men he meets up with teach him that lying can only hurt those being lied to. When Huck finds himself in the middle of a family feud, he becomes aware of how much hurt comes from violence. Huck always seems to try and be just like Tom Sawyer, and it isn’t until he goes on an adventure into a wrecked steamship that he realizes he needs to be himself and do things his own way. When given the opportunity to learn a lesson, take it. You never know how important it is or when you might need
In the year 2012, over 1.3 million juveniles were arrested and 700 of those children committed murder. Some people are lucky enough to have been taught the difference between right and wrong while others aren’t, and they are the ones who need them the most. Lessons are essential to every person 's’ life. We watch movies all the time where characters are stuck between death and the afterlife because they still have something left to give the world, or because the world still has something left to give to them. This state of being is called purgatory. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the main character Huckleberry Finn goes on an adventure up the Mississippi River with a man named Jim. Along the …show more content…
Huck comes ashore one night after falling out of his raft and losing Jim. He finds his way to the Grangerfords where he befriends them, only to lose that new found friendship when the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons engage in a deadly battle which kills almost everyone from both families. As he hides in a tree, Huck reflects on what happened to his friends: “his father and his two brothers [were] killed, and two or three of the enemy...I wished I hadn’t come ashore that night, to see such things. I ain’t ever going to get shut of them” (Twain 119). Violence is in every society, no matter what time period. No good can come of it; someone will always end up being hurt in every outcome that there is. Like the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons, many people feel that violence is their way of life. Drug lords, gang leaders, the military, they all inflict harm. Some do it for better and right reasons, but the hard truth is that whether you are trying to do it for the greater good or doing it just to be in control, someone is always going to end up hurting and in pain. Huck was taught this painful lesson at the cost of his friend’s life. This is one of the toughest lessons that anyone ever has to learn in life, but at the same time it is one of the most important …show more content…
Huckleberry Finn learned his lessons by traveling along the Mississippi River and making numerous stops along the way. While the river represents the state of being in purgatory, the stops he makes along the way teach him some of the most important life lessons. The con men he meets up with teach him that lying can only hurt those being lied to. When Huck finds himself in the middle of a family feud, he becomes aware of how much hurt comes from violence. Huck always seems to try and be just like Tom Sawyer, and it isn’t until he goes on an adventure into a wrecked steamship that he realizes he needs to be himself and do things his own way. When given the opportunity to learn a lesson, take it. You never know how important it is or when you might need