Thursday, April 29, 2010

Huckleberry Finn and the ideas he gets from his father

I think that Huck learns too much from his father. He sees what happens when someone acts like that, but he still uses his advice. Like when his dad said “it warn’t no harm to borrow things, if you was meaning to pay them back” (Twain 76). He was even confronted about this by his aunt. She said it was a nicer way of saying that you are stealing. This was true for Huck, because there was no way that he could pay the farmers back. First of all, he didn’t even know who they were. He also had no money to pay them with at the time, so he would have to go find them later. This would be kind of hard to do if you didn’t know who you are looking for.
His dad also said “take a chicken when you get a chance”, so his father promotes him stealing from people who it will affect (Twain 76). If he were to take items from a place that doesn’t belong to anybody, like when they took clothes from the house floating down the river, it does not matter. The owners will not “loose money”, because they are dead. Although, when you take from a farmer, he looses the profit off of what you stole.
His dad had told him about a man who looked at the moon over his left shoulder. Two years later he ran into some really bad luck. Obviously, the bad luck came from looking at the moon two years before. He believes every word his dad says, and can’t sort through his stories to find what is actually true. Even if it did come from superstitious activity, I highly doubt that it was from seeing the moon over your left shoulder two years earlier.

1 comment:

  1. I think that Thomas has the right idea on what he is talking about. I totally agree on that Huck acts like his dad and has learned a lot from his dad. The part where his dad says “it warn’t no harm to borrow things, if you was meaning to pay them back” is saying that stealing is good. Huck lives day to day by stealing things. If Huck didn’t have his dad in his life, he would be better off.
    Jeremy Hewitt

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