Now we are at the end of the book
and can now confirm that Huck wants nothing to do with his society. He says
that if he has to use a pickaxe to free Jim, to take a watermelon, or to take a
Sunday-school book he will, no matter what anyone thinks. He basically declares
that he will do what he wants and will use whatever method necessary to get
what he wants and doesn't care about what anyone else has to say. We also see
at the very end of the book, he says he wants to head west because Aunt Sally
is trying to civilize him. He says he is tired of that. Huck wants nothing to
do with his society and doesn't care about his social responsibilities.
However, I think that Huck can never fully escape from his society. His
societies beliefs and morals are all he knows. It is hard to break away from
that. He still sees Jim as inferior but at least as a person. He grows from the
beginning to the end but it will be hard for him to completely escape from the
southern mentality. The end shows that he is willing to try because he wants to
move to the west, which has different beliefs than the south.
I never talked about Jim’s social
responsibility. We can see how much Jim has to worry about. He was going to get
hanged just for being around an injured white child. They had no proof or
evidence he caused it, yet still blamed him. Jim is not allowed whatsoever to
do anything against the whites. Even when Tom tells him to do ridiculous things
that he knows are unnecessary, he still listens.
3 comments:
yay for final chapters of the book! so i guess for all of our posts we've mainly been focusing on huck's responsiblity to society, but i really like how you brought in jim's responsibility for once. through the entire novel, the only thing jim truly cares about is huck. he wants huck to be safe and okay. for example, when they find the dead man, jim acts as a fatherly figure to huck and protects him from the horrors of death. usually, black people of that time would be afraid to stand up to a white person. it was just what life was like. but jim, like huck, is unusual. he doesn't see people for the color of the skin, but he sees them as just people. and he sees huck as a child,a child that needs to be protected.
Hey! SO yeah, it's finally the end of Huck Finn woot! Alright, so you mention that Huck wants nothing to do with his society and nothing to do with being civilized by the Aunt, which are things what I too mention in my blog. However, you take it a step further by mentioning that Huck can never truly escape his society no matter how much he wants to, which is a really good point your bring up. But, I kind of disagree when you say that his societies beliefs and morals are all he knows, because if there's anything we can say about Huck throughout his adventure, it's that he is different then his surrounding people. Anyway good job!
You talk about Aunt Sally wanting to civilized Huck. Throughout the book we see more people who want to help Huck and try to civilize him like miss Watson. Obviously, Huck doesn't want them to help him become civilized. Although they felt like it was their responsibility to help Huck,if the person to be helped doesn't want anyone to help him then there's nothing to do about it. It also fo,ught my after tion when you said that "Huck alcancemos never fully escape from his society. I agree with Chris, I also think that Huck actually does escape from dociety a lot. That is what happens in the whole story. throughout all the book, Huck always thinks differently from society and that's why he escapes with Jim. If it wasn't for that,Huck would have probably turned Jim in. Huck thinks differently of Jim, he wants even says that he was like Jim's only friend. If he was like the rest of society he would have not created such a deep connection with Jim.
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