It has been seven days and seven nights without food or water in the desert and one can only hear the screams of the wind as they swoosh though the dried body of a cactus. With sand upon sand stretching as far as the eye can see in all directions and their stomach feeling as though it is about to collapses from the lack of food, they hallucinate a lonely Chick-Fil-A peacefully sitting in the middle of the desert. Mark Twain’s novel, Huckleberry Finn, recounts the tale of a young boy who faces great moral decisions and decides to go against what society tells him and do the right thing. Throughout the whole novel, Twain constantly shows the difference of reality vs. appearance and displays that everything does not first appear as it really is. …show more content…
Their home had beautiful furnishing, decorations, and pictures on the wall and looked more like a town home than a country house. The family seemed polite and well mannered but this picture of sophistication crumbled when Huck learned of the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons. At church these two feuding familys sat on opposite side with their guns and ironically listened to a sermon about brotherly love and everyone “said it was a good sermon” but later turned around in the day and killed each other when they learned that a Grangerford girl and Shepherdson boy had run away together (120). Huck heard some Shepherdsons yell, “kill them, kill them,” which made him, “so sick” that he “wished that [he] hadn’t ever come ashore that night, to see such things” (127). Huck learned that although they might seem civilized from the outside, with their nice family and home, they really were rather