Pros And Cons Of Huckleberry Finn Following Civilization

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Would you rather follow civilization, or reject it? In the old classic Huckleberry Finn we have Huck who opposed civilization. While others around him followed the rules like most of us to today, he opposed them. He also faced a lot of different challenges. What had civilization ever done for him besides hurt him time and time again? Huck would rather be an individual and dreads the rules and conformities of society which include school, religion, and anything else that would define him as civilized.
Huck didn’t want anything that involved school during his lifetime. He wanted to be adventurous and make something of his life. That is exactly what he did. To start off he did go to school even though he hated it. His reason for that was that his dad didn’t want him to go and …show more content…

He doesn’t want to be apart of anything and that includes any type of religion. Being a part of something would mean being like others. Therefore if he doesn’t want religion, why follow rules or be a part of something? “Well, I couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn’t try for it” (3). There he claimed he didn’t care about going to heaven or hell, so following the rules wouldn’t matter. He didn’t think there was a difference in the place he went after he died. “Alright, then, I’ll go to hell” (214). Huck got to the point of being deathly afraid of hell. He never seemed to care but then the time came where he realized he would rather go heaven, but couldn’t. Helping Jim seemed a mistake towards those laws and religion even if he wouldn’t have made it without him. He wanted to write all of these letters to people like Miss Watson and Tom Sawyer but was sure they would think of him as a bad person. Nonetheless Miss Watson would more than likely sell Jim and Huck would be left with no one. Even though Huck never seemed to care much about religion, we all know that deep down it was affecting

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