Freedom for Jim and Huck is defined as two very different things. Jim wants to gain access into society and wants to be a free man to live his life with his family. Huck on the other hand wants out of societal pressure. He wants to be able to live his life how he pleases. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic American novel that capitalizes on education, slavery, religion and morality. Mark Twain was never granted a true education. What a true education is can depend on who is asking and who is answering. The definition of Education is the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university. In Mark Twain’s famous book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn he paints a vivid picture of the difference
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“I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if Id a knowed it would make him feel that way” (Twain 86). Huck realizes that what he has done is wrong. Pap taught Huck that it was okay to “borrow” things while Widow Douglass taught Huck that it was stealing so Jim and Huck formed their own opinion on what they were going to do. “Pap always said it warn’t no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the Widow said it warn’t anything but a soft name for stealing and no decent body would do it” (Twain …show more content…
Twain shows how people only use religion for their benefit and not for an actually cause. “… and there warn’t anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn’t any lock on the door, and hogs like a puncheon floor in summer-time because it’s cool. If you notice most folks don’t go to church only when they’ve got to; but a hog is different” (Twain 109-110). Huck easily brings up the question of why people use the church, he is able to show how people use is for personal betterment. Twain also brings up the points of how people attend church and don’t listen to anything they are saying. The people all attend church out of obligation not because they intend to gain something from it. “Next Sunday we all went to church, about three mile,, everybody a-horseback. The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching- all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a good sermon, and they all talked it over going home…”
“I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if Id a knowed it would make him feel that way” (Twain 86). Huck realizes that what he has done is wrong. Pap taught Huck that it was okay to “borrow” things while Widow Douglass taught Huck that it was stealing so Jim and Huck formed their own opinion on what they were going to do. “Pap always said it warn’t no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the Widow said it warn’t anything but a soft name for stealing and no decent body would do it” (Twain …show more content…
Twain shows how people only use religion for their benefit and not for an actually cause. “… and there warn’t anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn’t any lock on the door, and hogs like a puncheon floor in summer-time because it’s cool. If you notice most folks don’t go to church only when they’ve got to; but a hog is different” (Twain 109-110). Huck easily brings up the question of why people use the church, he is able to show how people use is for personal betterment. Twain also brings up the points of how people attend church and don’t listen to anything they are saying. The people all attend church out of obligation not because they intend to gain something from it. “Next Sunday we all went to church, about three mile,, everybody a-horseback. The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching- all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a good sermon, and they all talked it over going home…”