Violence In The Story Of Pudd Nhead Wilson

The story of Pudd’nhead Wilson has to do a great deal with perspective. This includes violence, race, social status, and upbringing. The violence in the book is presented in different excerpts. One instance Tom is forcing Chambers to fight a man in whom he owes money to for his gambling debts, however, Chambers being raised to believe that he is a slave and is not allowed to hit a white man, the altercation turns sour. Chambers is in turn cut-up, by the man that Tom owes the gambling debt to. The man proceeds to tell Tom that if he cannot pay him the $400 that he owes him what he will do instead is to cause $400 worth of damages to his slave. At this point Tom seems to have no remorse or care for Chambers and allows him to be subjected to

In the story an altercation takes place where Tom insults the twins and they challenge Tom to a duel, with this the townspeople consider them the Capello twins to be violent, because they rely to be stuck on their old world traditions. Naturally, Tom refuses the duel as within many times it is presented that he is a coward. He is put on the spot by David Wilson when he calls him out on his cowardice. A story unfolds about how one of the Capello twins kills a man who attempts to steal from his brother plotting to kill him. Tom uses this to his advantage later on as the dagger he takes from the twins as the murder weapon for his Uncle Judge Driscoll (Brewton,

Roxy tells Tom not to worry that as long as he promises to sell her up river, to do so to cover the gambling debt as long as he promised to buy her back once he came into his inheritance. Instead, Tome decides to sell Roxy down river, and tries to dismiss any promise he made to her at all. Roxy escapes comes back confronts Tom as to what he has done, and then proceeds to tell him that he sold his own mother down river. This point being desperate because he has gotten himself into even more further debt, he makes the decision to kill his Uncle and frame the Capello twins with their dagger. At the trial David Wilson shows the courtroom how he is able to identify a person by their fingerprints and at first confusion set in while they thought that Chambers had killed the Judge, when in it was actually Tom who had done so. He did everything within his power to make it to where he came out wealthy, and tried sabotaging anyone in order to gain what he wanted, and keep the secret that he was actually a born slave. The end of the story Tom who is actually born as Chambers is sold down river (Brewton,