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Argumentative Essay On Huckleberry Finn's Life

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Huckleberry Finn , for a majority of the Novel Huckleberry Finn, lives a life in the backwoods with little to no rules applied. Soon after he assumes the lifestyle he is forced into a new life where he feels alienated and very different from those around him. He is forced into life with a widow that is very proper. He is forced to live with his father who is not at all proper. And finally another family he is forced to live with for a while is in the middle of a blood feud that would even let them kill each other for something many of them were not even alive for. Huck is once again in a situation that is very much new to him. The first unusual and situation Huck is not used to he is put into is when he lives with the Widow. He has never lived a refined life with education, so the adjustment is quite difficult for Huck. As Huck said early on “the widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it. She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn’t do nothing but sweat and sweat, …show more content…

He was right, because after Huck’s father seemingly began to reform himself, his father took him on a boat to a cabin out of the way of everything . Huck was kept inside the house whenever his father was leaving under the threat of beating and death from his father. His father would often get drunk and abuse Huck. One night. In this situation, Huck once again felt trapped and restricted and like he belonged elsewhere and doing things on his own accord. Being stuck to these rules, Huck was very out of place and his father would even get angry at him because Huck could read and write, while his father could not. This frustrated his father due to the fact that his father, nor his father’s father could ever read and write. Huck had an education that set him apart from his father, therefore making him feel alienated by that

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