Huck Finn Superstition
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain puts in several different themes which could be be looked at as the main theme for the whole book. The main two themes that I got out of the book is religion and superstition. The two themes I got happen to both be systems of belief. I got religion and superstition as the two main themes. I think the book shows all the civilized people to have the belief in christianity while all the poor and uneducated people like Huck and Jim believe in superstition.
Huck begins to think that christianity is useless because he thinks that the christian heaven is a place where boring and rigid people like Miss Watson and that Hell seems to be more exciting. He soons gives up on christianity because anyways, prayers aren't answered for Huck. Huck would rather believe in superstition, such as thinking everything is a bad sign, for example, when a spider burns in a candle or when Huck touches snakeskin. Huck also has a magic hairball and when is given money, it supposedly tells the future. Huck and Jim find any signs like these …show more content…
He deems it useless and a waste of time learning math and learning how to read and write. Huck views two different kinds of people, the “Civilized folk” and people like him are just lower class people. Huck and his father were very poor and uneducated so when Huck goes to the widow's house and learns to read and write, his father gets angry and accuses him of thinking that he is better than everyone else. Back then education is very different then today's education. Today it is the sole thing that millions of people rely on while back then, it wasn't all that important, well at least not for Huck. “your mother couldn't read, and she couldn't write, nuther, before she died.” Huck's father being upset about him going to school, really shows how uneducated people were back in that time. That is the exact opposite for most of the fathers of today's time
Huck begins to think that christianity is useless because he thinks that the christian heaven is a place where boring and rigid people like Miss Watson and that Hell seems to be more exciting. He soons gives up on christianity because anyways, prayers aren't answered for Huck. Huck would rather believe in superstition, such as thinking everything is a bad sign, for example, when a spider burns in a candle or when Huck touches snakeskin. Huck also has a magic hairball and when is given money, it supposedly tells the future. Huck and Jim find any signs like these …show more content…
He deems it useless and a waste of time learning math and learning how to read and write. Huck views two different kinds of people, the “Civilized folk” and people like him are just lower class people. Huck and his father were very poor and uneducated so when Huck goes to the widow's house and learns to read and write, his father gets angry and accuses him of thinking that he is better than everyone else. Back then education is very different then today's education. Today it is the sole thing that millions of people rely on while back then, it wasn't all that important, well at least not for Huck. “your mother couldn't read, and she couldn't write, nuther, before she died.” Huck's father being upset about him going to school, really shows how uneducated people were back in that time. That is the exact opposite for most of the fathers of today's time