‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ is a coming-of-age book written by Mark Twain. The novel provides many eye-catching moments capturing the readers’ attention. These points are exemplified by the themes that Finn rejects society, religion played a key role in society and how racism was well woven into civilisation.
One of the key themes that have helped develops such a striking book is how unsubmissive Finn is to society and its customs. Throughout the start of the novel it is clear that Finn doesn't like following civilised paths, “when I couldn't stand it any longer. I got into my old rags. I was free and satisfied.” The reoccurrence of personal pronouns demonstrates Finn’s straight forward thinking and his simple language. Modifying the noun rags with ‘old’ connotes a negative relationship that rags posses. Furthermore the positive connotations, free and satisfied, suggests that it is a more preferred lifestyle for Finn. Another example of this is displayed
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It is clear that religion played a major component in society, however, again Finn diverts from civilised thinking and thinks otherwise. Finn believes none of what religion condones, “so then I judged that all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer’s lies… It had all the marks of Sunday School.” A metaphor is displayed comparing religion to his friend’s silly lies. Almost regarding to it as pointless, dumb and something he can very well see through. He is rebuffed for not knowing about religion, “she said I was a fool. She never told me why, and I couldn't make out why.” It is proven in this statement that Finn is notably confused and unsure about religion. Given negative connotations, he is left with negatively categorised words when trying to practise religion. Thus, the theme that religion played a major part in society is vastly relevant in showing the imposing start of the