Huck_Finn

Huck Finn In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain portrays Jim and Huck as superstitious characters. Throughout the novel the role of superstition plays an important role in the lives of these two characters. Although Jim and Huck or totally different characters they both portray the similar quality of superstition. Jim believes a great deal in superstition. “…Jim, had a hairball as big as your fist…He said there was a spirit inside of it, and it knowed everything”(Twain 21). The spirit inside would talk to Jim and give him answers to what he needed to know. Huck new that Pap was back and wanted to ask Jim what he was going to do and if he was going to stay. So Jim took out the hairball said something over it and dropped it to the floor then but his ear to it and listened. Nothing happened until Jim slipped a counterfeit quarter under it and it started to talk to Jim. The spirit told Jim that Pap would be appearing soon, which evidentially soon enough he did. As well as Jim, Huck is a superstitious character as well. “…awful bad jim, bad, huck, signs, superstition, luck, said, role, hairy, good, things, superstitious, spirit, novel, lives, going, characters, you’s, twain, told, throughout, that’s, talk, states, spider, soon, sign, portrayed, plays, pap, man, island, inside, important, hairball