Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn is a great novel that gives us a look into the culture and actions of people in the pre-civil war south. Mark did it by including certain townspeople to show off a trait off the south. He uses the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons to show how violent and aggressive the south was. He also included the Duke and the King with how there was no trust and good law enforcement in the south. Lastly, he included Tom Sawyer's Aunt and Uncle. They show how the south wasn’t all made up of bad people and save owners. So inn all Mark Twain criticizes the hypocritical culture of the pre-Civil War south through his depiction of Huck and Jim’s interactions with the townspeople they encounter. One example of different townspeople
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They show off the dishonesty, crime, and emotions of the south. They show off the dishonesty by selling Jim when they told Huck that they would help Jim escape. In this quote, it shows that the duke did it,”because they could have the heart to serve Jim such a trick as that, and make him a slave again all his life, and amongst strangers, too, for forty dirty dollars.”(Twain 212) . An example of the Duke and Kings cunningness occurs when they are scamming money from people by tricking them that they are the real Duke and King. When Victor A. Doyno says,”...she reacts to her deception by the king and the duke with intelligence and force.” in her novel “Writing "Huck Finn": Mark Twain's Creative Process”. She shows that it's only because of their intelligence that they are able to do the things they do. The last Duke and King example is the crimes that they commit. One of the crimes they commit takes placewhen they take money from a dead person's grave. Huck tells us that he didn’t like that when he said,”says to myself, this is ANOTHER one that I’m letting him rob her of her money.”(Twain 175). Because of Huck’ worry about the Duke and King, he gives a good description of their crimes throughout the novel. So because of the Duke and the King perform these cunning, dishonest, and illegal actions, we see a better view of the
They show off the dishonesty, crime, and emotions of the south. They show off the dishonesty by selling Jim when they told Huck that they would help Jim escape. In this quote, it shows that the duke did it,”because they could have the heart to serve Jim such a trick as that, and make him a slave again all his life, and amongst strangers, too, for forty dirty dollars.”(Twain 212) . An example of the Duke and Kings cunningness occurs when they are scamming money from people by tricking them that they are the real Duke and King. When Victor A. Doyno says,”...she reacts to her deception by the king and the duke with intelligence and force.” in her novel “Writing "Huck Finn": Mark Twain's Creative Process”. She shows that it's only because of their intelligence that they are able to do the things they do. The last Duke and King example is the crimes that they commit. One of the crimes they commit takes placewhen they take money from a dead person's grave. Huck tells us that he didn’t like that when he said,”says to myself, this is ANOTHER one that I’m letting him rob her of her money.”(Twain 175). Because of Huck’ worry about the Duke and King, he gives a good description of their crimes throughout the novel. So because of the Duke and the King perform these cunning, dishonest, and illegal actions, we see a better view of the