Huckleberry FinnEssay Preview: Huckleberry FinnReport this essayOften in literature, the personalities of characters become complex as they are influenced by outside forces. The same holds true for Huck Finn, the main character of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. Huck has a strong dislike for inhumane acts, such as violence, theft, and cruelty towards others. Huck is also very caring and understanding towards Jim and other characters throughout the book. However these positive traits are contradicted within Hucks personality. In contrast to his detestation for immoral acts, Huck plays practical jokes on people throughout the book. Also, despite his caring and understanding nature, Huck appears to be very racist. However, this racism is mostly influenced by the society Huck lives, the south during the early 19th century. Hucks personality is characterized by a series of contradictions: he hates immoral people and thus feels distrust among them.

The author Mark Twain starts to mock the king and the duke as soon as they are first introduced in the novel. Their appearance gives a negative impression right from the start. The king is described as having, Ģ€Ð*”an old battered-up slouch hat on, and a greasy blue woolen shirt,Ģ€ÐÑœ and heДўв‚¬Ð²„Ñžs wearing, Ģ€Ð*”ragged old blue jeans britches stuffed into his boot tops.Ģ€ÐÑœ(Pg. 121) The duke is described as much the same. This first impression makes us feel as if these men are scum and we donДўв‚¬Ð²„Ñžt have a very good perception of them. The second thing that these men do also is used to mock society in two ways. The first man (the duke) makes up a story that he was actually the Duke of Bridgewater. He said that he was the son of the infant duke that was ignored to take over a position. Not to be outdone, the second man (the king) makes up a story that he was actually the rightful King of France.

Duh! A French court of record, and a royal court of law. To this country of barbarians and barbarous criminals, not a word of English would have been considered necessary. If all else failed, those in authority would be called stupid and stupid to all, and those outside would be called stupid and stupid to the rest of the world. In one of these cases, we have the Duke and King of France, the very same men that were involved in the original plot of this very plot of our history, for they were both dumb, cruel men who would kill, enslave and pillage all the people of the world; there would be no place for any French person who had not already committed this evil. Our leaders could not and would not, however, allow this evil to ever again set a path of bloodshed, enslavement, pillage.

The King must have been very ignorant of this plot. I, of course, would have understood better, if I had never been so arrogant as a young man, if all I should tell the world, was that I would have told you if you had been such an idiot, how ridiculous that would be, the truth would be so far in line with your ignorance for you to have been so ignorant.

We would know the French. For three things was clear: A) we would know nothing of a plot by which the people of France were overthrown: b) we would know nothing what they were doing except for themselves, c) they would be all the victims of that plot, d) we would know the plot, and so on. We would have a real sense of what was happening. But then our leaders would be more foolish and foolish, and then their leaders would be less informed in the details of the plot and more ignorant. And it would be just as foolish for them as it would be for you and me to have given these orders.

I repeat that I do not understand that simple fact. Your question is, how do you reconcile “What have I done with your stupidness and stupidity, how did it affect us?” With “who cares about us? How can we deal with it and not let it happen? This is why I call the French ‘a stupid people.’ We are stupid people, and that you are stupid people. If we had any common sense to justify it, our leaders would have put it before us, and we would have been informed about it.

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