School Work
Evelyn Menjivar
Jefferson, English 3H
Period 2
April 4, 2013
Human Nature An extraordinary author named Ernest Hemingway Once said, “All good novels began and ended with Huckleberry Finn.” Hemingway states the merit in the novel is coated throughly and deep into the writing. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, a young boy named Huckleberry Finn goes on a quest that affects his emotional and mental stability that has him at a constant battle with society and his moral values. Twain portrays this by suing themes and satire throughout the novel to display Twain's opinions in a secret manner. In Huckleberry Finn, Huck is trying to distinguish his moral values with the moral values he is being taught to live by. In other words, Huck is a satire to society because Huck does not follow society's rules or the values that have been established him to learn and live by. When Huck has discovered that Miss Watson's slave, Jim, has ran off, he starts to question whether or not if it is the right thing to do to tell someone or stay quiet and help Jim escape the South, where Huck then states, “People would call me a low-down abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum-but that don't make no difference. I ain't a-going to tell, and I ain't a-going back there anyways” (43). When Huck tells Jim that he does not care of what people say about him, especially that he could care less about going back to his home town, Huck is stating that he does not care about the opinions that people say about him for not turning Jim in and running away from the town to stay away from the corrupted society Huck lives in. Huck would rather go against society and do what he believes is right, whether he knows if it is actually the right thing to do or not, and behave like a human being with the right morals. The journey that Huck goes through in the novel and the constant conflict Huck has between him and society over slavery displays his transition from a young boy to a young
Jefferson, English 3H
Period 2
April 4, 2013
Human Nature An extraordinary author named Ernest Hemingway Once said, “All good novels began and ended with Huckleberry Finn.” Hemingway states the merit in the novel is coated throughly and deep into the writing. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, a young boy named Huckleberry Finn goes on a quest that affects his emotional and mental stability that has him at a constant battle with society and his moral values. Twain portrays this by suing themes and satire throughout the novel to display Twain's opinions in a secret manner. In Huckleberry Finn, Huck is trying to distinguish his moral values with the moral values he is being taught to live by. In other words, Huck is a satire to society because Huck does not follow society's rules or the values that have been established him to learn and live by. When Huck has discovered that Miss Watson's slave, Jim, has ran off, he starts to question whether or not if it is the right thing to do to tell someone or stay quiet and help Jim escape the South, where Huck then states, “People would call me a low-down abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum-but that don't make no difference. I ain't a-going to tell, and I ain't a-going back there anyways” (43). When Huck tells Jim that he does not care of what people say about him, especially that he could care less about going back to his home town, Huck is stating that he does not care about the opinions that people say about him for not turning Jim in and running away from the town to stay away from the corrupted society Huck lives in. Huck would rather go against society and do what he believes is right, whether he knows if it is actually the right thing to do or not, and behave like a human being with the right morals. The journey that Huck goes through in the novel and the constant conflict Huck has between him and society over slavery displays his transition from a young boy to a young