Every person can never fully move on to the next step of their feasible life because of one aspect: their piquing and blind-sighting compulsions. Compulsion, or addiction, plays an important role as one of the themes throughout the entire novel titled, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by one of America’s greatest writers in all of its history, Mark Twain. As the novel acts as an extension of Mark Twain’s other publication, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, it goes on in the point-of -view of Huckleberry Finn and his adventures after trying to leave his “incarcerating” establishment and his drunk and abusive father, who in fact will do everything in order to obtain the money that Huck
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Anything that is done in routine or relentlessly can be considered a compulsion. This is the case with Tom Sawyer, for he feels obligated to relay actions and events exactly how it is done in fictional novels. Although, many people might say that it’s just imaginary play and he is simply just a boy, but Tom’s compulsion has made his fiction desires into real life situations, enlisting him to be more applicable towards the actions he commits. In the second chapter of the novel, Tom Sawyer and some of the other boys in Hannibal, including Huck Finn, decide to start a gang of robbers that must kill and steal from people (Tom initiates it as a genuine gang, but it’s all make-believe) and that they must keep their prisoners until their ransomed. Many of the boys do not understand why they have to ransom people or what the term even means, so Tom’s response …show more content…
The father of Huck Finn, Pap, is an alcoholic and being one has resulted to the termination of his pointless life. In the sixth chapter of the novel, Huck explains what he must do in order to subside his father from threatening Judge Thatcher with the court to give up Huck’s fortune as well as stopping Huck from trying to go to school. Huck Finn also explains the outcome of satisfying Pap, elucidating, “…so every now and then I’d borrow two or three dollars off of the judge for him, to keep him from getting a cowhiding. Every time he got money he got drunk; and every time he got drunk he raise Cain around town; and every time he raised Cain around town; and every time he raised Cain he got jailed,” (Twain 23). Pap’s ventures with alcohol has become a constant cycle of his life, whereas he only lives to drink and drink and drink. Alcohol is an addiction, a compulsion, where it serves no purpose other than to extinguish a person’s hyped emotions as well as their sense of humanity. With Pap having an addiction to alcohol, he lost all of his keen senses and released all of his nastiest qualities, which were being abusive and gruff towards his very own son, Huck Finn. In the sixth chapter, Pap kidnaps Huck and one night he becomes delirious off of whiskey and imagines that devils are after him. Huck Finn explains his father’s violent drunken
Anything that is done in routine or relentlessly can be considered a compulsion. This is the case with Tom Sawyer, for he feels obligated to relay actions and events exactly how it is done in fictional novels. Although, many people might say that it’s just imaginary play and he is simply just a boy, but Tom’s compulsion has made his fiction desires into real life situations, enlisting him to be more applicable towards the actions he commits. In the second chapter of the novel, Tom Sawyer and some of the other boys in Hannibal, including Huck Finn, decide to start a gang of robbers that must kill and steal from people (Tom initiates it as a genuine gang, but it’s all make-believe) and that they must keep their prisoners until their ransomed. Many of the boys do not understand why they have to ransom people or what the term even means, so Tom’s response …show more content…
The father of Huck Finn, Pap, is an alcoholic and being one has resulted to the termination of his pointless life. In the sixth chapter of the novel, Huck explains what he must do in order to subside his father from threatening Judge Thatcher with the court to give up Huck’s fortune as well as stopping Huck from trying to go to school. Huck Finn also explains the outcome of satisfying Pap, elucidating, “…so every now and then I’d borrow two or three dollars off of the judge for him, to keep him from getting a cowhiding. Every time he got money he got drunk; and every time he got drunk he raise Cain around town; and every time he raised Cain around town; and every time he raised Cain he got jailed,” (Twain 23). Pap’s ventures with alcohol has become a constant cycle of his life, whereas he only lives to drink and drink and drink. Alcohol is an addiction, a compulsion, where it serves no purpose other than to extinguish a person’s hyped emotions as well as their sense of humanity. With Pap having an addiction to alcohol, he lost all of his keen senses and released all of his nastiest qualities, which were being abusive and gruff towards his very own son, Huck Finn. In the sixth chapter, Pap kidnaps Huck and one night he becomes delirious off of whiskey and imagines that devils are after him. Huck Finn explains his father’s violent drunken