What Is The Feud In Huckleberry Finn

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Feuds have been going on for many generation between families or groups of people for no reason. The book Huckleberry Finn and in the two articles “Hatfields and McCoys” and “East Coast vs. West Coast Rappers”; they each describe a feud that happened in either the story or in the articles. Feuding In my mind is unacceptable because there is no reason that two family should fight each other over who is the best family. I feel like families do this because they’re too ignorant of each other and don't have any forgiveness for themselves towards others. In the book Huckleberry Finn there was a feud between the Sheperdsons and the Grangerfords. They were always carrying guns around and threatening each other. One days Bucks sister ran off to marry …show more content…
In the article “Hatfields and McCoys” the families were in a feud over one hog that was claimed to have been stolen. In this feud there were many murders and many claims and convictions of the opposing families. The author said,”...flaring again over a seeming small matter: a dispute over a single hog”: they were fighting over one hog and they ended up having many deaths. Later almost 8 people went to jail for murder. One was given the death penalty and the seven others ended up living the rest of their life in prison. In the article “East Coast Vs. West Coast Rappers”: this time the east and west coast rappers new what they were fighting over. It says “... so called ‘rap war’ between the east and west coasts originated in arguments about the ‘ownership’ of the hardcore style of gansta rap” There were many violent and meaningless acts that hurt a few different rapper. Tupac was killed after he beat someone up at a MIke Tyson fight, while many people thought B.I.G killed him in a drive by. According to the article B.I.G was killed 6 months later in a drive by shooting in Los Angeles because people thought he killed

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