Examples Of Greed In Huckleberry Finn

The Desire for More

Greed for wealth or selfish desire causes violent and creates an overall disappointment in today's society.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a book based on many childhood adventures and circumstances that affected society. During some points of the book, it focused on greed which aimed for materialistic wealth. These greedful actions caused by many of the characters led to great amounts of violence. Greed and violence contributed tremendously during the 1830-40’s. This gave Mark Twain another reason to publish this book hoping for a better outlook on the events occurring during the time. A young careless boy by the name of Huckleberry Finn(Huck) lives with one of his mother figures. In the book she is described as

He knows that he would be able to use to Huck to satisfy his habit if he is able to take him away. Hanging around town in hope of taking Huck away from Miss Watson, Pap finally discovers where his son lives and demands Huck to give him money every fews days. “Call this a govment! why, just look at it and see what it's like. Here's the law a-standing ready to take a man's son away from his, a man's own son, which he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of raising. Yes, just as that man has got that son raised at last, and ready to go to work and begin to do suthin' for HIM and give him a rest, the law up and goes for him. And they call THAT govment!” (6.10) Miss Watson then orders him to leave her property but he does not care. Later in the story, Huck is kidnapped and beaten numerous amount of times by his father. Paps drinking habit shows what actions someone would take to fulfill a selfish desire. Instead of considering to do better and take care of his son, he tried using him for

Huck comes in contact with a member from this family and is treated with upmost respect for as long as he has nothing to do with the others. This feud had been evolving for 30 years with the desire to kill each other one by one, even if one’s own life were in danger. Everyone in the family is so caught up with hate that they have to the ability to consider anything else or connect with anyone on personal levels. As Huck begins to grow and mature throughout the story and wonders why the two families carry so much hate. He begins questioning, in desire need of knowing all of the reasoning behind killing another. “By and by everybody's killed off and there ain't no more feud.” (Page 18) Buck, the youngest Grangerford of them all,