Theme Of Abuse In Huckleberry Finn

A perfullal of debatable viewpoints and issues can arise from the novel Huckleberry Finn. This great american novel is one of the first of its kind and is geniusly written vicariously through the perspective a boy. This young lad goes through some serious predicaments from slavery, comrodroorry, race/racism, and moral problems of right and wrong. Although many individuals discuss these topics, I am here to acknowledge a different aspect of this book, and that is how abuse plays a role. Throughout, this piece of art Twain personifies the abuse of Huck Finn superbly, both from a physical and psychological standpoint. Physically, Twain is a master at describing situations of this wrong doing and can make it seamlessly fit into the time period.

Also, huck seems to believe that it is alright and normal for his father to be this way. "Call this a govment! why, just look at it and see what it 's like. Here 's the law a-standing ready to take a man 's son away from him—a man 's own son, which he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of raising. Yes, just as that man has got that son raised at last, and ready to go to work and begin to do suthin ' for HIM and give him a rest, the law up and goes for him. And they call THAT govment!” (6.10) This shows that huck 's dad felt that he should have all the benefits of being a father with little responsibilities. Also, the main character remains silent and allows the rant to go on sort of showing some acceptance and submissiveness to his sition. But this is not to say that his father is not a complete bad guy and that heck has no positive interactions with his father because his dad does help him learn to survive through fishing and live lessons though his insidiousness that live is hard and one must be able to walk through the harshness with resolve and

“They all asked me questions, and I told them how pap and me and all the family was living on a little farm down at the bottom of Arkansaw, and my sister Mary Ann run off and got married and never was heard of no more, and Bill went to hunt them and he warn 't heard of no more, and Tom and Mort died, and then there warn 't nobody but just me and pap left, and he was just trimmed down to nothing, on account of his troubles; so when he died I took what there was left, because the farm didn 't belong to us, and started up the river, deck passage, and fell overboard; and that was how I come to be here. So they said I could have a home there as long as I wanted it.” (17.47) I believe that this story is an example of how huck can make quick stories up as from his experience from his upbringing. When huck meets boggs a town drunk who is harmless huck finds himself seeing him as father figure eventually boggs is shot by a sheriff for speaking out of line and huck is faced with the death of his father in a nonliteral since. This is important because the way he feels which could be seen as sad although you would think he would be relieved. In a different direction now, you can see hucks view on slavery and race engrained on him from