How To Write An Argumentative Essay On Huckleberry Finn

A friend of mine who is very in-the-now decided a long time ago she wanted to look like more like the group of girls at our school who are “the ideals.” Through the years she accumulated UGGs, leggings, North Face jackets and a North Face backpack. She wanted the brands these girls had and she wanted to look and act like them, soon becoming immersed in all their characteristics and rituals. One day, I saw her come in with an Aroma Joe 's cup, but I know she doesn’t like coffee, which she was boasting she was drinking. When I asked her about it, she explained to me privately that it was only water. She wanted the cup to fit in more, the girls around her bringing coffee to school every day. What kind of society do we live in that we have to fake …show more content…
In Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, set in a period where slavery was still preeminent and conforming to society was expected, Huck and Jim fight for Jim’s freedom while traveling further and further south. Jim, a slave, ran away from his owner’s house and found Huck, who faked his death and ran away. Huck is faced with the obstacle of choosing whether to reject society’s racist views and help Jim, or conform to society and turn Jim in. Huck decided to assist Jim in his escape to the north, rejecting society and creating an exception to Mark Twain’s idea that people conform their opinions to match the people they are close to. On the other hand, the widow and Miss Watson, both caring for Huck, conform to society’s expectations. They are well-mannered, well-dressed, polite, and go to church regularly. While Miss Watson and the widow strive to fit in with society, illustrating Twain’s assertion, Huck Finn decides to reject the popular opinion and help Jim, making an exception to mark Twain’s …show more content…
All their lives, these two women have followed society’s expectations. In their hearts, they loved Huck just the way he was, without having him conform. However, due to the popular opinion of society, Huck had to have good manners and wear decent clothes so he did not inflict his outsider characteristics and qualities to the ladies’ social appearance. They made Huck do this to fit in with society, suppressing their views to not be shunned and to keep up their presentation in society as proper. Miss Watson, Jim’s owner, at one point decides to sell him. After he runs away, she realizes how great he was and wishes to grant him freedom. However, she puts her wish in her will and waits it to be read after her death to put in place this unpopular action, releasing a slave. She conforms until death, resisting being shunned and hated until a time where she cannot be pushed away from her friends or looked down upon by