Huck Finn Social Media Analysis

In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the country of America is stuck in the mindset of slavery being a good thing, and that black families are bad, even disgusting people. Huck Finn is a young boy living in the early Nineteenth Century who runs away from his abusive father and past. He meets a slave, Jim, that agrees to run away with him in search for freedom, however, living in the time period they do, getting freedom is a struggle. Jim is treated awfully by many people including Huck’s best friend,Tom, mainly by being called an offensive name that is still offensive to this day. Twain uses the treatment of Jim to demonstrate how people to this day treat others inhumanely and harshly by using social media platforms and college

Although social media isn’t used in the book, because it is set in the early 1800’s, Twain gives a quote discussing that men don’t want to get into trouble. A mob comes through Sherburn’s area and terrifies kids, yet when Sherburn came out to address them he almost mocked them saying, “You didn’t want to come. The average man don’t like trouble and danger.” (Twain, 148). Twain creates almost a suspenseful or maybe mocking related tone by Sherburn using shorter sentences and standing in front of a large crowd. Men being afraid of trouble is true which relates to hatred on social media. On social media many people will hide behind their screens with a different name so no one can find them. It is easy for someone to completely humiliate another person when no one knows who they are so no one can insult them back. Sherburn saying this proves that men and women are afraid of confrontation and commonly use social media platforms to avoid trouble.Another example in

In college Fraternities and Sororities are common, however, in order to get into the group a process called hazing occurs. President’s of the clubs will make the new ‘pledges’ go through awful treatment in order to get through. Twain uses Huck’s story of becoming a member of Tom Sawyer’s Gang to sow the cruelness in joining the club. Twain tells, “...and if anybody done anything to any boy in the band, whichever boy was ordered to kill that person and his family must do it... Then they all stuck a pin in their fingers to get blood to sign with...” (Twain, 7-8). By the boys signing their name with their blood and pledging to kill if one disobeys shows that higher authorities, who lead the group or gang, can make the younger ones do awful things. College pledges go under similar treatment that sometimes can be even harsher than what Huck went through. Ella Napton wrote about different stories of college hazing experiences all being cruel and unusual. However, one that stood out was pledges being shot with airsoft guns. Ella tells, “Some pledges are ducks that get shot with airsoft guns and one other is the dog who has to give stupid expressions as he collects his shot pledge brothers.” (Napton, 1). Current members would force all pledges to participate in these degrading games that humiliated all pledges.