“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all people all the time,” famously said by Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln recognized how anyone can get away with something but not one person will always be able to get away with everything. Mark Twain writes of how a little boy and a runaway slave can fool many at one time but eventually are caught; caught by choice-of choosing to do the right thing unlike impudent colleagues of his. In Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, three meaningful subjects are explored in education, innocence and experience, and morality that are still relevant today. In his novel, Twain says that it is important to be educated; people can and will
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At one point the king, duke, and Huck go watch a circus act; a man playing as if he was drunk and then jumping on a horses back to ride around as part of the act, which Huck doesn’t understand. “He had got up that joke all out of his own head, and never let on to nobody. Well, I felt sheepish enough, to be took in so, but I wouldn’t a been in that ringmaster’s place, not for a thousand dollars” (152). This example demonstrates how Huck needs more experience to better understand that what happened was all part of their plan to catch everyone off guard to add entertainment. “It didn’t take me long to make up my mind that these liars aren’t no king nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing… If I never learn 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” (125). Twain is saying how unless someone experience things they will not know if someone is fooling or not. But it is good to be in the dark with certain situations, including ones that will make someone shield themselves from trusting others. Then and now are changing in expectations. Twain is saying that there can be both innocence and experience to balance how a person lives. Innocence in the late 1800’s was the knowledge about alcohol and smoking because they drank and smoked as small children and throughout. Our generation was never introduced …show more content…
In the beginning of the novel, Huck always told elaborate lies. And he begins to question if he should be helping Jim, the runaway black slave, even though Jim is only caring and loving towards Huck. “Well, then, says I, what’s the use you learn to do right when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? I was stuck. I couldn’t answer that. So I reckoned I wouldn’t bother no more about it, but after this always do whichever come handiest at the time” (91). But as his adventure with Jim continues he realizes that he is the most loving and loyal guy that is in Huck’s life, always putting Huck’s well-being ahead of his own. As Huck’s heart and loyalty change he begins to question whether he will turn the slave in or save him. While sitting by the river, being torn apart on whether or not to send Miss Watson the letter of where her runaway slave was, he decides. Tearing up the letter, Huck says,” Alright then, I’ll go to hell” (34). Throughout the book Huck thinks of himself as a horrible, immoral person. But he sacrifices for the greater good against society and what he thinks will send him into damnation, thinking all the while it’s
At one point the king, duke, and Huck go watch a circus act; a man playing as if he was drunk and then jumping on a horses back to ride around as part of the act, which Huck doesn’t understand. “He had got up that joke all out of his own head, and never let on to nobody. Well, I felt sheepish enough, to be took in so, but I wouldn’t a been in that ringmaster’s place, not for a thousand dollars” (152). This example demonstrates how Huck needs more experience to better understand that what happened was all part of their plan to catch everyone off guard to add entertainment. “It didn’t take me long to make up my mind that these liars aren’t no king nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing… If I never learn 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” (125). Twain is saying how unless someone experience things they will not know if someone is fooling or not. But it is good to be in the dark with certain situations, including ones that will make someone shield themselves from trusting others. Then and now are changing in expectations. Twain is saying that there can be both innocence and experience to balance how a person lives. Innocence in the late 1800’s was the knowledge about alcohol and smoking because they drank and smoked as small children and throughout. Our generation was never introduced …show more content…
In the beginning of the novel, Huck always told elaborate lies. And he begins to question if he should be helping Jim, the runaway black slave, even though Jim is only caring and loving towards Huck. “Well, then, says I, what’s the use you learn to do right when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? I was stuck. I couldn’t answer that. So I reckoned I wouldn’t bother no more about it, but after this always do whichever come handiest at the time” (91). But as his adventure with Jim continues he realizes that he is the most loving and loyal guy that is in Huck’s life, always putting Huck’s well-being ahead of his own. As Huck’s heart and loyalty change he begins to question whether he will turn the slave in or save him. While sitting by the river, being torn apart on whether or not to send Miss Watson the letter of where her runaway slave was, he decides. Tearing up the letter, Huck says,” Alright then, I’ll go to hell” (34). Throughout the book Huck thinks of himself as a horrible, immoral person. But he sacrifices for the greater good against society and what he thinks will send him into damnation, thinking all the while it’s