It goes without saying that Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the best written novels of all time. The novel is about a young boy named Huckleberry Finn who runs away from his father a few days after his father regained custody from the Widow. Throughout his peregrination down the Mississippi River, Huck encounters many people who swindle others. It is clear to say the theme of deception is often displayed throughout this novel. The first form of deception seen in the novel is from Pap, Huckleberry Finn’s alcoholic father. Pap deceived the new judge by saying that he was going to start a new life since he regained custody of Huck. The new judge said he was going to make a man of Pap, and he “took him to his own house,
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The next town they come across, they want to perform the scene to get money. The king memorizes the lines of Juliet since the duke is Romeo, and they get a place in the town to print off flyers. Admission was 25 cents, and children and servants were 10 cents. The show was such a disaster that people got up and left in the middle of it, so when they performed it again, they only allowed adults. They would be performing a different-funnier- skit than the last one at the court house for three nights only, and they made the admission 50 cents. The night it premiered, many people came to see it. The skit was so funny that the audience demanded to see it again and again. After doing it a few times, the king and the duke said that was it. The people were upset because they paid 50 cents to see a show that only lasted a few minutes. The audience outraged, and “rose up mad, and was going for that stage and those tragedians.” (152) A man stood up and proclaimed that they shouldn’t get worked up because once the rest of the town hears about it, they’ll be called fools; therefore, they should say that it was a great show to get the rest of the town to see it so they weren’t the only ones that fell for the trickery. They agreed, and proclaimed to the rest of the town how great the show was. The motivation behind the king and duke’s actions was to get more money, and this is unacceptable and unforgiving because greed took over their actions and they robbed the people by giving them a skit that lasted a short time for quite a bit of money. This action gives the readers an opinion on the duke and the
The next town they come across, they want to perform the scene to get money. The king memorizes the lines of Juliet since the duke is Romeo, and they get a place in the town to print off flyers. Admission was 25 cents, and children and servants were 10 cents. The show was such a disaster that people got up and left in the middle of it, so when they performed it again, they only allowed adults. They would be performing a different-funnier- skit than the last one at the court house for three nights only, and they made the admission 50 cents. The night it premiered, many people came to see it. The skit was so funny that the audience demanded to see it again and again. After doing it a few times, the king and the duke said that was it. The people were upset because they paid 50 cents to see a show that only lasted a few minutes. The audience outraged, and “rose up mad, and was going for that stage and those tragedians.” (152) A man stood up and proclaimed that they shouldn’t get worked up because once the rest of the town hears about it, they’ll be called fools; therefore, they should say that it was a great show to get the rest of the town to see it so they weren’t the only ones that fell for the trickery. They agreed, and proclaimed to the rest of the town how great the show was. The motivation behind the king and duke’s actions was to get more money, and this is unacceptable and unforgiving because greed took over their actions and they robbed the people by giving them a skit that lasted a short time for quite a bit of money. This action gives the readers an opinion on the duke and the