When reading a book you normally don’t think about the place you stand in society, you think about the overall text and where the characters stand. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, I found myself questioning where I stand in society and who I could influence. In the book Huckleberry Finn goes through a whole journey that changes the way he views certain things. He has learned how to act from the people that have influenced him along with society. Huck later escapes the place he was supposed to stay at and went on a journey to live on his own, thinking it was better than the life he was living. When he goes on this journey Huck faces different people, obstacles, and certain things that change his feelings toward society
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Throughout these chapters Huck is hanging out with Duke and King a lot. The more he hangs around them the more he realizes how much trouble they really are. In the beginning Huck lies a lot. He knows that he’s only doing it to keep him and Jim alive. When he meets Duke and King he thinks that at first that their lies aren’t exactly bad. Once he starts to spend more and more time with them he realizes that their lies are really bad lies. The King and the Duke pretends to be a brother of a man that passed away to get and steal over 6,000 dollars. On page 230 the King tells the guys that he came into town the day before the funeral, but Haines saw the King that same morning so he knew that he was lying. When the two real brothers show up an investigation starts. Huck knows that in order for the money to get out of the Kings hands he needed to steal it. He took the money and put it into Peter Wilks coffin and ran to the raft where he finds Jim. This shows that Huck actually knows the difference between a person who lies to satisfy themselves vs a person lying to save their life. He’s finding out the bad in certain situations and he fixes them even though he knows he could be putting his life at risk by going against Duke and …show more content…
This story could also be a representation of how our overall morality has formed as well. He grew up around people that tried to shove certain things down his throat to change his views on society. Huck went from being a person that could care less about the lord and didn’t care about breaking the rules. Later on he changed into a person that contradicted himself with his rights and wrongs when he was faced in certain situations. In the end he eventually thought about the lord and what he may see if he chooses to break the rules for the last time. He eventually learns the difference between right and wrong, by learning it through an adventure he took and overcoming many obstacles. In order to remain alive Huck knew that the decisions he made would be different now than they would be latter on because it’s for his life. Huck now knows that the people that he grew up around influenced him in a way that wasn’t bad, but he eventually started to follow in their footsteps choosing the right things to do. Even though their views are wrong, the decisions they made were usually the right ones and that’s what Huck had to learn on his own through his whole journey. This could also be how we discover our overall morality. We grow up around a higher power believing everything they tell us until we get faced with something that could change our views. Even though every situation we face
Throughout these chapters Huck is hanging out with Duke and King a lot. The more he hangs around them the more he realizes how much trouble they really are. In the beginning Huck lies a lot. He knows that he’s only doing it to keep him and Jim alive. When he meets Duke and King he thinks that at first that their lies aren’t exactly bad. Once he starts to spend more and more time with them he realizes that their lies are really bad lies. The King and the Duke pretends to be a brother of a man that passed away to get and steal over 6,000 dollars. On page 230 the King tells the guys that he came into town the day before the funeral, but Haines saw the King that same morning so he knew that he was lying. When the two real brothers show up an investigation starts. Huck knows that in order for the money to get out of the Kings hands he needed to steal it. He took the money and put it into Peter Wilks coffin and ran to the raft where he finds Jim. This shows that Huck actually knows the difference between a person who lies to satisfy themselves vs a person lying to save their life. He’s finding out the bad in certain situations and he fixes them even though he knows he could be putting his life at risk by going against Duke and …show more content…
This story could also be a representation of how our overall morality has formed as well. He grew up around people that tried to shove certain things down his throat to change his views on society. Huck went from being a person that could care less about the lord and didn’t care about breaking the rules. Later on he changed into a person that contradicted himself with his rights and wrongs when he was faced in certain situations. In the end he eventually thought about the lord and what he may see if he chooses to break the rules for the last time. He eventually learns the difference between right and wrong, by learning it through an adventure he took and overcoming many obstacles. In order to remain alive Huck knew that the decisions he made would be different now than they would be latter on because it’s for his life. Huck now knows that the people that he grew up around influenced him in a way that wasn’t bad, but he eventually started to follow in their footsteps choosing the right things to do. Even though their views are wrong, the decisions they made were usually the right ones and that’s what Huck had to learn on his own through his whole journey. This could also be how we discover our overall morality. We grow up around a higher power believing everything they tell us until we get faced with something that could change our views. Even though every situation we face