The Reasons Behind Huckleberry Finn’s Dislike of Society Many teenagers go through a phase where they rebel against their parents and the normal of society, and almost always grow out of it. But in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huckleberry Finn actually has a few very good reasons as to why he can’t stand society. The many experiences Huckleberry Finn has in and away from society causes his dislike and distaste for society and civilization grow throughout the novel. In the first stage of the book, Huckleberry Finn doesn’t yet hate society, but he doesn’t want to be ‘sivilized’, as he calls it. This is basically just a rebellious stage like almost everyone goes through where he doesn’t want to listen to adults or go
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Even though his Pa keeps him locked in the cabin when he goes away, Huck feels more free because he doesn’t have to go to school or wear nice clothes like he did back in society. He is not getting civilized any more because his father also hates society and thinks that any education is pointless, and Huck comes to realize that he never wants to go back to society after experiencing life without it. However, when his father leaves him locked in the house for three days straight, he realizes that he needs to escape and run off by himself, and he does so by faking his death and building a raft to go down the Mississippi …show more content…
He sees people killing people for some conflict their ancestors had many decades prior, and this just absolutely sickens him. He can’t think of society in a good way anymore if this is just a common thing that people do to each other with no second thought or remorse. When he finally gets back on the raft after escaping the gunfight, he and Jim both agree that “there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft” (Twain 153). The raft is their refuge from society and they both can escape all the problems that society presents them with on the raft. Nevertheless, problems from society always seem to have a way of finding them on the raft and their serenity is broken when liars who say they are a king and a duke join them on their journey down the
Even though his Pa keeps him locked in the cabin when he goes away, Huck feels more free because he doesn’t have to go to school or wear nice clothes like he did back in society. He is not getting civilized any more because his father also hates society and thinks that any education is pointless, and Huck comes to realize that he never wants to go back to society after experiencing life without it. However, when his father leaves him locked in the house for three days straight, he realizes that he needs to escape and run off by himself, and he does so by faking his death and building a raft to go down the Mississippi …show more content…
He sees people killing people for some conflict their ancestors had many decades prior, and this just absolutely sickens him. He can’t think of society in a good way anymore if this is just a common thing that people do to each other with no second thought or remorse. When he finally gets back on the raft after escaping the gunfight, he and Jim both agree that “there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft” (Twain 153). The raft is their refuge from society and they both can escape all the problems that society presents them with on the raft. Nevertheless, problems from society always seem to have a way of finding them on the raft and their serenity is broken when liars who say they are a king and a duke join them on their journey down the