The contradictory forces that influenced huck’s personality in the early chapters of mark twain’s adventures of huckleberry finn
Being just a kid, Huck finds himself surrounded with contradictory ideas about what kind of boy he should be. On one side there is the Widow Douglas, a wealthy woman who adopted him,and as Huck himself describes it “…would sivilize me” (1). She was Christian and tried very hard to implement her Christian ideals on Huckleberry, who did not find any logic in them. Huck was raisedby his alcoholic father without any sort of religious values. When he came to this new house where he was expected to believe in certain things and follow numerous rules, ambiguity and confusion beganto build up in his mind. As if the guidance Huck got from his father and the Widow were not contradictory enough, he also had to deal with influences from Jim, the Widow’s slave who was verysuperstitious. While Huckleberry despised most of Jim’s superstitions, some of them did persuade him and were another big contradicting force in his childhood.
Having a mixture between the “civilization”...
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