Huckleberry Finn Still Relevant Today Analysis

“I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: ‘All right, then, I’ll go to hell’ – and tore it up” (Twain 205). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn explores the journey of a boy named Huck Finn who travels down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave named Jim. Huck is constantly torn between what seems to be right and wrong for southern states in the 1800’s. Huck faces a variety of predicaments that challenge his intelligence and makes him question his religion. In Mark Twain’s novel Huck Finn, three meaningful subjects are explored in religion, education, and morality that are still relevant today. Twain’s expresses his dislike for religion in the novel by showing how hypocritical Southern Christians are and expresses the fact that some do not practice what they preach. Huck visits numerous southern towns throughout his travels, each in which Twain includes his views of

Twain makes Huck an unreliable narrator to display his lack of education. “I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five” (Twain 15). This quote is ironic because though Huck claims he is being educated, he states six times seven is thirty-five, when it is really forty-two. Twain also displays that the crowd is uneducated when the king and duke appear in the novel. These frauds are able to convince anyone of anything, due to the lack of schooling amongst the crowd. They swindle Jim into believing that they are truly a king and duke and sell the crowds on all their scams, the worst one being when they pretend to be Peter Wilk’s brothers. Overall, Twain is able to show the lack of education in the south within his use of