“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” (Mark Twain). The concept of relationships plays a huge role in Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. His outlook on relationships is important and the relationships within a family unit is a successive theme in Twain’s novel. The context surrounding the novel reveals that he was influenced by the conditions of families and relationships in the late 1800’s. Twain uses the relationship of Huck and Jim and events throughout the novel to demonstrate and speak for his thoughts on relationships. Our society’s traditional view is that a family includes a husband and wife with one or more biological or adopted children. Twain’s classic novel, provides
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In Twain’s novel the different types of relationships does not go unnoticed by the reader. In the first instance, he shows the substandard relationship between Huck and his father. “You’ve put on considerable many frills since I been away. I’ll take you down a peg before I get done with you. You’re educated, too, they say--can read and write. You think you’re better’n your father, now, don’t you, because he can’t” (Twain 19). Pap is jealous that Huck knows more than him at such a young age but Pap shows no other concern towards Huck. Twain makes the relationship between Huck and his biological father bad to stress more on the new and better relationship Huck finds with Jim. It is clear to the reader that Jim is a loyal person and the main reason he runs away is for his family. “But I noticed dey wuz a nigger trader roun’ de place considerable lately, en I begin to git oneasy” (Twain 43). Jim loves his family and this is the first event that proves Jim’s loyalty to the people in his life. It is important for the reader to understand Huck and Jim’s relationship because Twain wants to relate his thoughts on relationships and how the newfound relationship changes both of their lives. “What about family members? Most of them are people you just got stuck with, and though you love them, you may not have
In Twain’s novel the different types of relationships does not go unnoticed by the reader. In the first instance, he shows the substandard relationship between Huck and his father. “You’ve put on considerable many frills since I been away. I’ll take you down a peg before I get done with you. You’re educated, too, they say--can read and write. You think you’re better’n your father, now, don’t you, because he can’t” (Twain 19). Pap is jealous that Huck knows more than him at such a young age but Pap shows no other concern towards Huck. Twain makes the relationship between Huck and his biological father bad to stress more on the new and better relationship Huck finds with Jim. It is clear to the reader that Jim is a loyal person and the main reason he runs away is for his family. “But I noticed dey wuz a nigger trader roun’ de place considerable lately, en I begin to git oneasy” (Twain 43). Jim loves his family and this is the first event that proves Jim’s loyalty to the people in his life. It is important for the reader to understand Huck and Jim’s relationship because Twain wants to relate his thoughts on relationships and how the newfound relationship changes both of their lives. “What about family members? Most of them are people you just got stuck with, and though you love them, you may not have