Huckleberry_Finn_Themes

Huckleberry Finn Themes Mark Twain tells us of the adventures young Huckleberry Finn experiences in his book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Throughout Huck’s adventures, he learns to tell the moral people from the dishonest and finds where he stands on the issues of superstition, religion, slavery, and freedom. Even though several themes are sporadically mentioned, the themes of superstitions and immorality seem to be more frequently apparent in Huck’s life. Superstitions are brought up many times throughout the book, and were never taken lightly. For example, Huck was sleeping one night when he saw a spider crawling and said, “ I didn’t need nobody to tell me that was an awful bad sign and would fetch me some bad luck (Twain 4).” True, spiders are disgusting and terrifying, but since when are they a cause of bad luck' Usually creepy crawly arachnids would fascinate a young boy, but Huck was fearful due to a mere superstition. Also, Huck tells us about Jim’s good-luck charm. He says, “...a hairball as big as a fist... used to do magic with, and knowed everything (Twain 23).” Sometimes people will look to anything to help them with huck, twain, about, young, life, tells, superstitions, role, people, pap, out, one, luck, bad, way, said, models, help, due, boy, adventures, wrong, very, time, throughout, think, themes, tell, superstition, spider, snake, slavery, skin