Huckleberry Finn Essay
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Denesha Smith
Mrs.Cayce
English III H
Period:B2
Huckleberry Fin Essay
Mark twain uses many different characters to display the good and bad in humanity. Twain also shows the figurative and literature meaning behind each character and in between dialogue.
In the beginning of the novel we are introduced to Huckleberry Finn who is a young boy during pre-civil war times. Twain uses Huckleberry Finn for propaganda of transcendentalism, stressing the good of humanity in humans. An example of this is when Huckleberry fin goes against what he was taught and tries to help Jim. “It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: “All right, then I’ll go to hell”-and tore it up.”(pg.161, 162).
Later on in the novel we are also are introduced to Huckleberry Finn dad who is a older man during pre-cvil war time who is racist. Twain portrays him in a bad way to humanity because for one he is a racist and he teaches huckleberry fin that slavery is right. That God want that way and if you go against it that you will go to hell. here was a free nigger there from Ohio—a mulatter, most as white as a white man. He had the whitest shirt on you ever see, too, and the shiniest hat; and there ain't a man in that town that's got as fine clothes as what he had; and he had a gold watch and chain, and a silver-headed cane—the awful- est old gray-headed nabob in the State. And what do you think? They said he was a p'fessor in a college, and could talk all kinds of languages, and knowed everything. And that ain't the wust. They said he could VOTE when he was at home. Well, that let me out. Thinks I, what is the country a-coming to? It was 'lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn't too drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a State in this country where they'd let that nigger vote, I drawed out. I says I'll never vote agin. (6.11)
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