Mind Over Money French Proverb once informed, “Money is a good servant but a bad master.” This quote relates to the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. It shows the theme of money through characters and how they view money in there own eyes, how we shouldn’t let money over take us and just let it help us out sometimes. Pap views money like an addiction, he can’t get enough of it. The King and the Duke view money as a way of life and Jim views money about being worth something. One example of the theme of money would be when Huck’s father, Pap, loses everything he is worth to being an alcoholic. He is a slave to his own drinking habits. Pap would waste away his days buying whiskey and being drunk that he loses everything
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The soul reason that Jim runs away from Miss Watson is because he hears about a slave trade and thinks that he is being sold to slave owners in New Orleans. While Huck and Jim are on the river he tells Huck how he was rich at one point in his life, how he had once owned 14 dollars. Now Jim feels like he is worth a fortune because there was an 800 dollar reward out for him. “‘Yes; en I’s rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I’s wuth eight hund’d dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn’ want no mo’’” (47) Even though Jim is still the while a slave he looks past that and sees the good in a bad situation. Jim sees money as a way to stay alive, it keeps him going knowing that he is worth something to people even if it means being bought as a slave. To conclude, money is one of the many themes one can take from this novel. Not only is it a way that Pap finds his peace, the King and Duke use as an everyday ‘job’ to survive and how Jim sees that he is worth something but; it is one of the many themes that people can relate to. I picture money as unity. If a nation works together, they can achieve the unthinkable. If a nation breaks down and fails together they achieve nothing. Money bring people together or it can tear people apart, that is for the human race to
The soul reason that Jim runs away from Miss Watson is because he hears about a slave trade and thinks that he is being sold to slave owners in New Orleans. While Huck and Jim are on the river he tells Huck how he was rich at one point in his life, how he had once owned 14 dollars. Now Jim feels like he is worth a fortune because there was an 800 dollar reward out for him. “‘Yes; en I’s rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I’s wuth eight hund’d dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn’ want no mo’’” (47) Even though Jim is still the while a slave he looks past that and sees the good in a bad situation. Jim sees money as a way to stay alive, it keeps him going knowing that he is worth something to people even if it means being bought as a slave. To conclude, money is one of the many themes one can take from this novel. Not only is it a way that Pap finds his peace, the King and Duke use as an everyday ‘job’ to survive and how Jim sees that he is worth something but; it is one of the many themes that people can relate to. I picture money as unity. If a nation works together, they can achieve the unthinkable. If a nation breaks down and fails together they achieve nothing. Money bring people together or it can tear people apart, that is for the human race to