Huckleberry Finn's Journey

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huckleberry once says “Human beings can be awful cruel to one another”. Though Huck has seen some fairly awful things during his travels with Jim during the course of his adventure along the river, his life at home was no better. With an abusive father, Huck grew up in a hostile and violent household with an alcohol depend father and no mother. The final straw in Huck’s decision to move out was the night that his father attempted to kill Huck in a drunken rage. After Huck’s escape from his father, Huck stumbles upon Jim, a slave and an acquaintance of Huck’s. They sent out on a journey in which Huck experiences thing that lead him to believe that human beings can be a cruel kind. An
They live an extravagant life with a lot of property and slaves who work on their property. When Huck first meets the Grangerfords, they assume he is from the Shepherdson family, who Huck soon finds out are their rivals. After things are sorted out and the Grangerfords not long believe Huck is a Shepherdson, they are extremely friendly and become great hosts and welcome Huck with open arms. Huck grows close with their youngest boy, Buck. Buck and Huck are very similar in character, as Twain intended, and through these similarities Huck sees what his life could have been like if he were originally born into a better family. As Huck spend more time at the Grangerford’s estate, the more he becomes curious about this blood feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons. Buck tries to explain the situation to Huck. “‘Well’ says Buck, ‘a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man’s brother kills him; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the cousins chip in - and by and by everybody’s killed off, and there ain’t no more feud. But it’s kind of slow, and takes a long time’” (Twain 107). Buck also explains that it has been so long, that the two families no longer know what the feud is about. To Huck this is a little confusing, but soon realizes how serious this feud is. During his stay with the Grangerfords Huck sees several murders from this feud, including his friend Buck’s. Quite shaken up about this, he decides to head back to the river and end his stay at the Grangerfords. Huck, again, comes to the conclusion that people can be very cruel to one another, judging from his experience from the constant feuding over something that was forgotten by both