A community is a group of people that share similar characteristics and have a feeling of fellowship with others. To provide charity to strangers is to care for someone out of the pure goodness in one 's heart. These two aspects come into play in both, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Angela’s Ashes. “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.” (208, McCourt). These small words from Mr. O’Halloran give the students advice that they’ve probably never heard before. Knowledge is wealth. He is pushing them to get an education and soak up all of the intelligence they possibly can. The kids don’t appreciate it at the time but, if put words to use, they’d realize that it’s the best thing they can do for themselves
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Although his family wasn 't particularly mean to him, they didn 't encourage or teach him the way the people he met along the way did. The dynamic of strangers in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn varies widely from waning to capture and kill him to helping him achieve the goal he is ultimately trying to reach. Huck encounters strangers throughout his entire journey down the Mississippi river and in most ways, the lies he told had a lot to do with how the ones he met treated him. The community that Huck is set in at first involves very little strangers, as it is a small town. Huck is, in a way, privileged to live the life that he does within the first few chapters of the story. His dad is damaging with only destructive intentions and he has grown up without a mother. This life isn’t one that most people want to live, but Huck was fortunate enough to have to women that look after him, Ms. Watson and the Widow Douglas. “The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it.” (3, Twain). From Huckleberry’s point of view, they are not the best of people and they only want to “sivilize” him, but to be under their wing is far preferable than what Pap has to offer. The ladies play an important role in transforming Huck into someone who will be well functioning in their adult lives and make a living. They care about him. It’s something that Huck doesn’t like, yet in the long run, it’ll be one of the most beneficial skills he will take with him for the rest of his life. I think he takes advantage of
Although his family wasn 't particularly mean to him, they didn 't encourage or teach him the way the people he met along the way did. The dynamic of strangers in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn varies widely from waning to capture and kill him to helping him achieve the goal he is ultimately trying to reach. Huck encounters strangers throughout his entire journey down the Mississippi river and in most ways, the lies he told had a lot to do with how the ones he met treated him. The community that Huck is set in at first involves very little strangers, as it is a small town. Huck is, in a way, privileged to live the life that he does within the first few chapters of the story. His dad is damaging with only destructive intentions and he has grown up without a mother. This life isn’t one that most people want to live, but Huck was fortunate enough to have to women that look after him, Ms. Watson and the Widow Douglas. “The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it.” (3, Twain). From Huckleberry’s point of view, they are not the best of people and they only want to “sivilize” him, but to be under their wing is far preferable than what Pap has to offer. The ladies play an important role in transforming Huck into someone who will be well functioning in their adult lives and make a living. They care about him. It’s something that Huck doesn’t like, yet in the long run, it’ll be one of the most beneficial skills he will take with him for the rest of his life. I think he takes advantage of