Midterm Exam

Midterm Exam

  • Submitted By: rethwiscat18
  • Date Submitted: 12/12/2013 8:10 PM
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The story of Huckleberry Finn is of a young man whom struggles with his life and decisions. These struggles with his conscience cause Huck to rethink many of his actions and thoughts in life. Because he loved his friendship with Jim so much, Huck would always admit what he did to Jim and apologize for his actions. Without Jim, Huck wouldn’t have realized that he’s the same as everyone else around him even if he was a slave. Jim is one of the main reasons why Huck has this battle over society, friendships, and personal morality within himself. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the main character, Huck struggles with three things: social conventions, Jim, and his own morality.
The main character, Huck, battles with the social conventions of this fictional world in two ways; intellectually and morally. By focusing on his education, Huck becomes an outcast who distrusts the morals and principles of this society that labeled him a pariah which fails to protect him from abuse, regardless of how Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas attempted to educate and civilize him. However, he eventually learns not to trust the morals of society through Miss Watson’s teaching of prayer and God. With the education that Huck has, he doesn’t understand Miss Watson when she tells him that he is a fool for praying for three fish hooks (12). As a result of this, Huck realizes that humans are harmful and can cause radical and cruel consequences to each other. “Human beings can be awful cruel to one another. (222)” This realization about how the society he lives in works, and his relationship with Jim, make Huck question many of the things that he learned about race. Verbal abuse was a common fact of life to Huck, just as the sun would rise and fall every day. Although Huck was allowed into a town and lived with the widow’s home; he couldn’t shake a nagging feeling of being an oustsider, someone bound to be shunned because of his lineage and possibly lack of...

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