Pap comes into the story when Huck feels that something isn't right however it is affirmed by Jim's hairball. Twain generalizations Pap as the average inebriated and harsh "white refuse. " Pap needs Huck to quit attempting to improve instruction, quit showing signs of improvement garments, and to quit attempting to be superior to anything his dad. The incongruity is that Pap should be develop and cultivated, yet he doesn't need Huck to better himself.
In addition, Pap’s inclination of Huck’s education is opposite of it should be. Little education keeps his son from being able to do better than he can, the motto of nearly all parents. On top of that, he has taken advantage
Before that Huck gave all his money to Judge Thacher. Huck gave Judge thatcher all that money because. Huck's Pap got into jail all the time and get in trouble. He also made the townspeople mad. Jim wanted money only because he wanted to get his wife and children out of slavery after he got himself out.
Pap Finn is Huckleberry Finn’s drunken, slovenly father. The reader is first introduced to him in chapter five when Huck returns from giving Judge Thatcher his money. Pap knows that Huck is wealthy and being educated, but has no idea of what was just done prior to them meeting. Once Pap finds out about the money and Huck’s educations Pap gets angry and threatens to beat Huck for trying to be better than him. “Now looky here; you stop putting on frills.
But, he also wanted to address the issue of parent’s rights to raise their child. The book shows great failure when it comes to giving a child to their parents just because they are an authority of them or their biological parent(s). For example, “the custody judge is unfortunately new to the town and refuses to separate Huck from his father Pap” (Cite). This was the wrong decision, readers fully understand that this choice could be putting Huck’s life in danger when he returns back home to Pap. Although it is true that Pap was his real father, there were a few things that Pap was lacking as a parent when it comes to taking care of his son.
Pap was gone for most of Huck life, but returns when he hears Huck has $6,000. Pap appears in Huck`s bedroom drunk and demands Huck to hand over the money. Unfortunately for Pap, Huck had signed the money over to Judge Thatcher. Pap is furious and threatens to beat Huck, and in an attempt to not be beaten, Huck hands Pap his $3 which his father later uses on whiskey in
Huck’s experiences of living with Pap impacted him in a negative way. For example, Huck’s thoughts on his relationship with his father are shown when he says, “Pap he hadn’t seen me for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn’t want to see him no more. He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around” (Twain 21). Huck realizes that life will be easier away from his father because whether Pap was drunk or sober, Huck was always in a bad situation, either neglected or abused.
He wants to improve the moral condition of Pap which, of course, backfires and only allows him to torment Huck further. However, Judge Thatcher was not only one who had “good intentions” toward Huck and
Then the novel shows the cruel side of society in Huck’s father. When Pap gets custody of his son, he treats him dreadfully. All Huck wants is his own sovereignty, and to live where he doesn’t have to follow anybody else’s standards. Another struggle Huck must face is when Jim, a runaway slave, enters the novel. Huck has to choose between what society thinks is morally correct and what he thinks is the right thing to do.
Huck also always tries to do the right thing and help people out. When Huck gives all of his money away to Judge Thacher he is looking out for Pap because he did not want him to drink it all away. It was evident then that Huck did not really care about the money because then he would have hid it somewhere or told Judge Thacher not to give the money to his Pap, but instead he just gives it away. Huck wanted his father to become better and not drink all the time because he knew that it was better for him. Huck does look out for himself but when he runs into someone and they need help he would help them.
In Huckleberry Finn, Huck is abused by his father Pap and so Huck pretends to be dead so Pap will stop chasing him to try and kill him. Huck found a large sum of money,$6,000. Pap is very poor and lives in a shack in the middle of nowhere.
In the Vignett The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros the main theme was that no matter what trials life throws at a person, one can always prevail in the end by sticking to who they truly are.. From the beginning of the novel, the main character, Esperanza, is eager to belong, whether that is to a group of people or in the beginning a house. When her parents do get a house it’s not what Esperanza had imagined it to be, it did not fit what she thought a dream house would be like. Her desire to get out of Mango Street and become someone is her ultimate driving force in this book. Going through several events like rape, sexual assault and even witnessing abusive behavior towards women in her neighborhood all of these things encourages her to do better for herself.
But when Pap disappears, the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson take Huck in and attempt to civilize him by giving him new, clean clothes, teaching him to read and write, and teaching him manners. Huck’s immaturity is evident in the beginning of the story with accounts of Huck’s shenanigans with Tom. He ruins his fresh clothes, sneaks out at night, gets in fights, joins a “robber gang”, and goes on adventures with his friends. His actions show that his morals aren't present and he could care less about trying to do the right thing and be a good boy for the Widow and Miss Watson.
After living with Pap as a young boy and continually getting beat up, Huck looks for a way out. Huck shows early signs of maturity by escaping to Jackson’s Island while Pap is asleep and by covering the house in pigs blood to make it look as if he was murdered. While still in the very beginning of the novel, Huck has already matured tremendously. Another experience that Huck goes through is when Jim turns to Huck and says, “Pooty soon I 'll be a-shout 'n ' for joy, en I 'll say, it 's all on accounts o ' Huck; I 's a free man, en
All Huck needs is to believe in himself and not worry about any family. Pap is a terrible father to Huck “he is a monster, a vicious child abuser Mark Twain and Manhood 101 nouncing how the law could stand between him and "a man 's own son, which he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of raising," but actually bemoaning his inability to grab Huck 's money. Pap 's only sense of worth comes from asserting his meager white supremacy” (Obenzinger 101). Huck would rather act as though he was dead than live a life with a man like Pap as his father. After Pap finally comes back to see Huck and decides that he wants to live with him Huck starts to get uneasy.
