Huckleberry Finn Education Analysis

One of the major themes presented in the book Huckleberry Finn, is Education. In the book Huck is opposed to learning. Now, given the evidence throughout the beginning of the book, a conclusion could be made that this is due to his upbringing. Another thing is that Huck’s upbringing played a huge part in is his lack of interest to be civilized. Although, he is no Einstein, since Huck attended school regularly, he was literate. That being said, Huckleberry Finn is not the most intelligent person, he is however a fantastic logical thinker. One example of his logical thinking is when he thought Tom’s escape plans were unpractical. An example from the novel to support that Huck was more so clever than intelligent is, when Huck becomes friends with

Huck endured a lot of personal struggles throughout the novel. A continuous struggle shown throughout the book is Huck’s internal battle with himself to understand that Jim was still a human being with feelings, regardless of his skin color. A quote from the book that supports this claim is from Chapter 40, “I know he was white inside, and I reckoned he’d say what he did say- so it was all right, now, and I told Tom I was agoing for a doctor.” To go more in depth on the claim that Huck had moral issues, he was brought up in a family where morals were not taught that slavery was plausible. He felt as though, he was stealing Jim from Ms. Watson. In chapter 16 of the book, Huck says, “Conscience says to me 'What had poor Miss Watson done to you, that you could see her nigger go off right under your eyes and never say one single word? What did that poor old woman do to you, that you could treat her so mean...' I got to feeling so mean and so miserable I most wished I was dead.”. This previous quote from the book revealed the actual thought process of Huck, due to the fact that it described his moral dilemma so that the reader could better understand his