Superstition Almost everyone believes in some form of superstition in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. However, superstition has a bigger effect on the African Americans. This is probably because the African Americans are less educated which makes them more willing to believe that some things have to be done in certain ways or else bad things will happen. In this book, Jim is more superstitious than Huck. Huck believes that some of the little things have to be done in certain ways to avoid having bad luck, but he doesn't believe in the big things like witches. Jim on the other hand, is extremely superstitious. One day, Huck and Tom play a trick on Jim by moving his hat to a tree branch while he's sleeping. Jim believes that witches had
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He thinks that birds can tell when it's going to rain. (Twain 48). Jim is very superstitious about snake skin. He thinks that if someone touches the snake with their bare hands, it will bring them the worst of luck. (Twain 51). Also when a person has hairy arms and chest, it's a sign that they will become very rich within their lifetime. (Twain 45). Which in Jim's case does actually happen. Jim believes in practically every superstition there is, but Huck only believes in some of the littler superstitions. Huck believes in throwing spilt salt over his left shoulder to keep off bad luck. He thinks that only women drown face down, men will be floating on their backs if they have drowned. (Twain 13). On page 5 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a spider crawled into Huck's lit candle and died. Huck said that this was a sign of bad luck. Tom Sawyer tells Huck that magicians had put a invisibility spell on the parade of people and animals in the park, which Huck kind of believes. (Twain …show more content…
Huck is more of the person that just goes with the flow and doesn't look too much into what is happening or what could be causing it. Jim on the other hand, is extremely superstitious and believes that there is a reason everything happens. He tries to avoid receiving bad luck at every chance he gets. In this book, Mark Twain was showing that less educated people were more superstitious because they didn't know any better. The uneducated people believed that everything that happened to them, had to of happened because of something they did. They didn't understand that sometimes there was an actual reason things happen and other times it just happens without anything causing
He thinks that birds can tell when it's going to rain. (Twain 48). Jim is very superstitious about snake skin. He thinks that if someone touches the snake with their bare hands, it will bring them the worst of luck. (Twain 51). Also when a person has hairy arms and chest, it's a sign that they will become very rich within their lifetime. (Twain 45). Which in Jim's case does actually happen. Jim believes in practically every superstition there is, but Huck only believes in some of the littler superstitions. Huck believes in throwing spilt salt over his left shoulder to keep off bad luck. He thinks that only women drown face down, men will be floating on their backs if they have drowned. (Twain 13). On page 5 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a spider crawled into Huck's lit candle and died. Huck said that this was a sign of bad luck. Tom Sawyer tells Huck that magicians had put a invisibility spell on the parade of people and animals in the park, which Huck kind of believes. (Twain …show more content…
Huck is more of the person that just goes with the flow and doesn't look too much into what is happening or what could be causing it. Jim on the other hand, is extremely superstitious and believes that there is a reason everything happens. He tries to avoid receiving bad luck at every chance he gets. In this book, Mark Twain was showing that less educated people were more superstitious because they didn't know any better. The uneducated people believed that everything that happened to them, had to of happened because of something they did. They didn't understand that sometimes there was an actual reason things happen and other times it just happens without anything causing