Huck Finn
Reality is different in every society and for every person. It is different because each person has different outlooks on things. Reality is what each person believes. A perfect example of the question of what is true and what is not is religion. What each person believes, how he/she interprets things, and how he/she reasons is different, but people who don’t block themselves from reasoning and experience, come closest to reality. Your religion is dependent upon how you reason and is dependant upon your society, so if you don’t block your mind and your senses, your religion is the real truth for you. Since the truth is different in every society to find out the truth, if nothing is what it appears to be, is to judge by combining what you see, hear, feel, and experience. This topic is illustrated in the book Huckleberry Finn.Like everybody else, Huck first based his conclusions on what he saw and heard. Huck saw that his aunt was a nice lady who only wanted good for him. He saw that his aunt perfectly fitted their society, “The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time, when you got to the table you couldn’t go right to eating, but you had to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, tho
Huckleberry Finn was an open person who based his actions and conclusions on all his senses and experiences, and that why he was the one who came closest to reality. Our society now is not forced to think in some specific and insular way, that’s why now we can reason and base our conclusions on what we see, hear, experience, and feel. In Huckleberry Finn’s society, Huck was forced to think in an insular way in his society, and only got the idea of what was right to do because he judged things in his own way because he got away from his narrow minded society. Marc Twain shows racism and religion of these people in his book as the effect of a person blocking reality from themselves. In a way Marc Twain ridicules these people for their narrow mindness in religion and racism. Marc Twain shows that the people in Huck’s society lived only by things that were written and said by other people. It is shown in the character Miss. Watson. Miss. Watson wanted to go to the good place even though as Huck states she wasn’t sure where it was. Miss. Watson also knew that she must help other people and never worry about herself, and yet she didn’t apply it for everybody at first, but it is shown later in the book that she also reasoned. Miss. Watson was happy living by her book’s and society’s rules her whole life that she even didn’t think about the idea of racism and other people that have to struggle living without their families and without the place where they fit in. Though it is shown that Miss. Watson did have some of her own opinions, and not her society’s, that she kept to herself because she did free Jim at the end. The things are not as they appear to be with Miss. Watson also because at first she seems as someone who just goes along with everything, but Miss. Watson in reality did have some freedom of mind. Huck and Jim both wanted to be in a place where they fitted in, only Jim knew his place and wasn’t allowed to be in it and Huck still hasn’t figured out that place. That was the reason for Huck’s leaving again after he helped Jim. After Huck left his society he was free to reason in his own way and not allow other people make him believe things that he didn’t actually believe in. Huck reasoned by all his senses and that’s why he came closest to his own and our reality. Huck’s second reactions were based on what he experienced. Huck by experience realized that Jim was a good person, and that he was just as good as a person as any white person. Huck got to know Jim and understood of how he really was. Huck even once stated, “I knowed what it was about. He [Jim] was thinking about his wife and his children, away up yonder, and he was low and homesick; because he hadn’t ever been away from home before in his life; and I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their’n. It don’t seem natural, but I recon it’s so. … He was a mighty good nigger, Jim was.” (pg. 117). Huck realized that Jim was a very sensitive person. Jim is also shown as a very loyal person. Jim is shown as a loyal person when he and Huck were caught in the fog, and Jim was awfully worried about Huck, even though Jim was not related to Huck in any way Huck was Jim’s true friend. Jim could not risk his only true friend who helped him get lost and possibly drown somewhere in the river. It is shown that Jim is a sensitive person when he tell the story about his daughter ’Lizabeth. Jim tells Huck, “ I says to her, I say: “shet de do”…She never done it…En wid dat I fetch’ her a slap side de head dat sont her a-sprawlin. … en when I come back, dah was dat do’ a-stannin’ open yit, en dat chile stan
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