Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction – Albert Einstein. In the case of several instances, Huck, a character in a Mark Twain novel, used his uneducated mind to wrought several acts of genius, as well as teaching us a few valuable messages. In Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, three meaningful subjects are explored in equality, education and slavery.
Equality implies everyone being considered and treated equal. Everyone. Twain uses Huck to show that family isn’t always right. That just because you grew up one way doesn’t mean it’s the right way. Or that you should act or believe that way. Or even stay that way. People grow up, beliefs change and life goes on. Through Huck, Twain shows us the way he grew up in the Deep South, experiencing this. “I didn’t do …show more content…
Something everyone in this novel did not have. For example, Huck is frequently defined as an unreliable narrator, Due to the fact that he is uneducated. Twain also makes constant references to the fact that uneducated people are easily fooled. When Huck witnessed the circus performance he felt awful for the guy on the horse because he was afraid that the man was going to get hurt. Come to find out, the man on the horse was one of the performers. Huck no longer felt bad, he felt tricked and he did not like it. That’s because Huck is a realist. “It didn’t take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn’t no king or dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds.” (Twain 125) Twain uses the Duke and King to show that education might not be necessary, but it is very useful. The more education one has, the less likely you are to be fooled. This is the main reason why the Duke and Kings’ scams were so effective; very few people were educated back then. So be educated, so as not to be
Equality implies everyone being considered and treated equal. Everyone. Twain uses Huck to show that family isn’t always right. That just because you grew up one way doesn’t mean it’s the right way. Or that you should act or believe that way. Or even stay that way. People grow up, beliefs change and life goes on. Through Huck, Twain shows us the way he grew up in the Deep South, experiencing this. “I didn’t do …show more content…
Something everyone in this novel did not have. For example, Huck is frequently defined as an unreliable narrator, Due to the fact that he is uneducated. Twain also makes constant references to the fact that uneducated people are easily fooled. When Huck witnessed the circus performance he felt awful for the guy on the horse because he was afraid that the man was going to get hurt. Come to find out, the man on the horse was one of the performers. Huck no longer felt bad, he felt tricked and he did not like it. That’s because Huck is a realist. “It didn’t take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn’t no king or dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds.” (Twain 125) Twain uses the Duke and King to show that education might not be necessary, but it is very useful. The more education one has, the less likely you are to be fooled. This is the main reason why the Duke and Kings’ scams were so effective; very few people were educated back then. So be educated, so as not to be