Huck Finn Civilized Society

In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck rejects civilized life. Huck despises the rules and standards of society such as, religion, school, and basically anything else that makes him look and feel like everyone else. Throughout the novel, there are many adults that try to civilize Huck but instead of taking their advice, he rather learn for himself. Huck’s hatred for civilization all started with Pap. During most of his childhood, Huck was both physically and mentally abused by his father. Pap was the first representation of civilization to Huck, and clearly it was a bad one. As the novel goes on, Huck starts to realize that he and Jim were always safe, independent, and free out on the far. It also seemed that every time they would visit civilization, a negative and dangerous situation would follow. Throughout the novel, Mark Twain uses the main
No matter where you are or who you are with, it would be completely unacceptable to act how Huck acts throughout the novel. Even though Twain used Huck as a way to satirize society, he used him as a way to show its okay to go against what other people think. Huck becomes friends with a run-away slave which is never heard of at the time. How that relates to today’s society is, a lot of people are scared to challenge and go against what is known as “correct” in society and it’s really a problem. Huck’s view that he shouldn’t have to shower, eat on a plate, and go to bed and get up regularly is something that is forced in today’s society because it is almost impossible to live without doing these things. Money isn’t a problem when Huck is growing up, it is very possible to live without much of it while today, everyone has enough of it but all they want is more. Greed is something that is evident in today’s society and Twain portrayed that through the King and the