“[…] she was going to live so as to go to the good place. Well, I couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn’t try for it.” (3) The comments made by Huck clearly show Miss Watson as a hypocrite, scolding Huck for wanting to smoke and then using snuff herself and firmly believing that she would be in Heaven.When Huck encounters the Grangerfords and the Shepardsons, Huck describes Colonel Grangerford as, “[…] a gentleman, you see. He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family. He was well born, as the saying is, and that’s worth as much in a man as it is in a horse […].” (104) You can almost hear the sarcasm from Twain in Huck’s description of Colonel Grangerford. Later, Huck is becoming aware of the hypocrisy of the family and its feud with the Shepardsons when Huck attends church. He is amazed that while the minister preaches about brotherly love both the Grangerfords and Shepardsons are carrying weapons. Finally, when the feud erupts into a gunfight, Huck sits in a tree, disgusted by the waste and cruelty of the feud, “It made me so sick I most fell out of the tree[…] I wished I hadn’t ever come ashore that night to see such things.” () Nowhere else is Twain’s voice heard more clearly that as a mob gathers at the house of Colonel Sherburn to lynch him. Here the full force of Twain’s thoughts on the hypocrisy an cowardice of society are expressed,“The idea of you lynching anybody! It’s amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! […] The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that’s what an army is – a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any man at the head of it is beneath pitifulness.” (146-47) Each of th...
