Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, although it was written much before today’s time, still correlate with the events that take place in our society today. Mark Twain wrote this book after his story The Adventures of Tom Sawyer to tell the stories of Tom’s best friend, Huckleberry Finn. In this story Huck and a runaway slave, Jim, travel together along the Mississippi River, exploring the cultural differences of the time, and making their way to freedom. Therefore, The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn should be maintained as a book that high school students read because many of the historical topics that are mentioned in this story, still relate with events in our society today. In this story symbolism is used in many difference
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It is the theme of superstition. One example of this is, “Jim told me to chop off the snake’s head and throw it away and then skin the body and roast a piece of it. I done it, and he eat it and said it would help cure him. He made me take off the rattles and tie them around his wrist, too. He said that that would help” (Twain 63). This quote shows how Jim believes that eating this skin and body and tying the rattle around his wrist will cure him, and Huck believes Jim and does as he says. This theme is important to the story because it is a large aspect of both Huck and Jim as characters. Also, it shows yet again, how even though they have different backgrounds, they can still have similar beliefs and behaviors. Which is why this book should still read in schools, it proves that different people, can still agree and get along with each …show more content…
For example, Mark Twain attacks the race divide that was so prevalent during this time period, and when we read this book we can relate the events to the racial divide that is still happening in today’s world. “It most froze me to hear such talk. He wouldn’t ever dared to talk such talk in his life before. Just see what a difference it made in him in the minute he judged he was about free. It was according to the old saying, ‘give a nigger an inch and he’ll take an ell.’ Thinks I, this is what comes of my not thinking. Here was this nigger which I had good as helped to run away, coming right out flat footed and saying he would steal his children- children that belonged to a man I didn’t even know; a man that hadn’t ever done me no harm” (Twain 105). This quote shows that Huck is not opposed to slavery, but he is conflicted because he thinks that Jim is still a good man, he just does not know any different. This story can teach us that what we are raised to believe may not always be what is right, and we should look beyond a person’s outer shell, and realize that all people are the same in their
It is the theme of superstition. One example of this is, “Jim told me to chop off the snake’s head and throw it away and then skin the body and roast a piece of it. I done it, and he eat it and said it would help cure him. He made me take off the rattles and tie them around his wrist, too. He said that that would help” (Twain 63). This quote shows how Jim believes that eating this skin and body and tying the rattle around his wrist will cure him, and Huck believes Jim and does as he says. This theme is important to the story because it is a large aspect of both Huck and Jim as characters. Also, it shows yet again, how even though they have different backgrounds, they can still have similar beliefs and behaviors. Which is why this book should still read in schools, it proves that different people, can still agree and get along with each …show more content…
For example, Mark Twain attacks the race divide that was so prevalent during this time period, and when we read this book we can relate the events to the racial divide that is still happening in today’s world. “It most froze me to hear such talk. He wouldn’t ever dared to talk such talk in his life before. Just see what a difference it made in him in the minute he judged he was about free. It was according to the old saying, ‘give a nigger an inch and he’ll take an ell.’ Thinks I, this is what comes of my not thinking. Here was this nigger which I had good as helped to run away, coming right out flat footed and saying he would steal his children- children that belonged to a man I didn’t even know; a man that hadn’t ever done me no harm” (Twain 105). This quote shows that Huck is not opposed to slavery, but he is conflicted because he thinks that Jim is still a good man, he just does not know any different. This story can teach us that what we are raised to believe may not always be what is right, and we should look beyond a person’s outer shell, and realize that all people are the same in their