It provides people the comfort of being who they want to be. No authority in this world has the right to deprive a human of such. Taking that gift away from a person denies them the right to be happy with oneself. In Huck’s case, from the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, the widow attempts to civilize him. From Huck’s perspective, he sees being “sivilized” as having all the fun taken out of his life. Huck proves that he is an independent, adventurous individual who is forced to change his true nature merely because society frowns upon such a character. After faking his death to run away from such tensions, he faces the same predicament he started with when Aunt Sally tries to adopt Huck and continue the widow’s work. “I can’t stand it,” he grunts “I been there before” (Twain, 294). Once again, fed up with societal pressures, Huck takes his chances in the west. Huck was just as justified in leaving the second time as he was the first time. When people are becoming a detriment in one’s life as the widow was to Huck, it is their responsibility to remove them from it and not be afraid to defy what these harmful people want. Huck find his refuge by choosing to live a nomadic lifestyle. Although it is not the best lifestyle for a child, at least he has the freedom to truly express Huckleberry Finn. In a different case but a similar conflict, the song “Little Boxes” written by Melvina Reynolds paints an image of a bland society where all of its residents are living meaningless lives. In the song, she repeats the line, “And they all look just the same” (Reynolds); however, she highlights a new line, “And they came out all the same,” by breaking the repetition previously established. In the new line she writes, she is referring to the youth of this society who go “to the universities” and “are put in boxes.” This new line in her song implies that these people were not born like the way she is
It provides people the comfort of being who they want to be. No authority in this world has the right to deprive a human of such. Taking that gift away from a person denies them the right to be happy with oneself. In Huck’s case, from the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, the widow attempts to civilize him. From Huck’s perspective, he sees being “sivilized” as having all the fun taken out of his life. Huck proves that he is an independent, adventurous individual who is forced to change his true nature merely because society frowns upon such a character. After faking his death to run away from such tensions, he faces the same predicament he started with when Aunt Sally tries to adopt Huck and continue the widow’s work. “I can’t stand it,” he grunts “I been there before” (Twain, 294). Once again, fed up with societal pressures, Huck takes his chances in the west. Huck was just as justified in leaving the second time as he was the first time. When people are becoming a detriment in one’s life as the widow was to Huck, it is their responsibility to remove them from it and not be afraid to defy what these harmful people want. Huck find his refuge by choosing to live a nomadic lifestyle. Although it is not the best lifestyle for a child, at least he has the freedom to truly express Huckleberry Finn. In a different case but a similar conflict, the song “Little Boxes” written by Melvina Reynolds paints an image of a bland society where all of its residents are living meaningless lives. In the song, she repeats the line, “And they all look just the same” (Reynolds); however, she highlights a new line, “And they came out all the same,” by breaking the repetition previously established. In the new line she writes, she is referring to the youth of this society who go “to the universities” and “are put in boxes.” This new line in her song implies that these people were not born like the way she is