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Huck Finn3

heart. (258)This assertion tells the reader that most, in that time period, did have the same views, reactions, and ethics as offered in the book. Huck is in direct opposition and retaliation with almost all of these tenets. He first demonstrates this by wishing to leave the Widow Douglas because she wants to “sivilize” him. The interesting observation is,…the irony of the Widow’s attempt to teach Huck religious principles while she persists in holding slaves. As with her snuff taking—which was all right because she did it herself—there seems no relationship between a fundamental sense of humanity and justice and her religion. Huck’s practical morality makes him more “Christian” than the Widow, though he takes no interest in her lifeless principles. (Grant 1013)Huck seems to have the inclination that something is wrong with her beliefs in God and how people should follow Him, unfortunately he “couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going, so [he] made up [his] mind [he] wouldn’t try for it” (Twain 13). Huck could not endure these rigors of formal southern training and finally he “couldn’t stand it no longer. [He] lit out” (Twain 13). Huck never did quite feel right in society, in his hometown or in any of the towns he visited during his daring journey. Only when he was in his rags and on the river by himself or with Jim did he feel “free and satisfied” (Twain 12). Even with Jim, Huck feels a sense of uneasiness. His duty delegated by the culture is to turn Jim in, yet he “was helplessly involved in doing the thing which his society disapproved—freeing a slave. It was an action which he himself disapproved but could avoid no more than his grammatical blunders” (Cox: The Fate… 383). Huck’s moral struggle with this situation is a central theme to the novel. It is so significant that some believ...

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