Clemens’ main character, Huck Finn, experiences a great deal of violence throughout the novel as a direct result of the most significant

Deadly Sin, Pride. Huck’s father, Pap, is a drunkard who continuously exemplifies the sin of Pride. Pap finds extreme Pride in the “white man” with the legality of slavery. An example of his Pride is seen when an inebriated Pap verbally attacks free blacks in the States. He states, “It was ‘lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself, if I war’nt too drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a State in this country where they’d let a nigger vote, I drawed out. I says I’ll never vote again” (44). This statement relates Pap to the Deadly Sin of Pride because he is constantly comparing his life to that of the lives of others. Pap’s vanity and Pride in this novel lead Huck to abandon his physically abusive father and start his life anew. The Grangerford episode is another relation to the sin of Pride. Huck experiences a fatal shootout between two feuding families: the Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords. Buck Grangerford, Huck’s newfound friend on his adventure, is shot and killed because of his own father. Father Grangerford is so encircled with his own egotism and Pride, that he continues an age-old feud with their neighbors, the Shepherdsons. The disagreement between the families began almost thirty years before, and they no longer even knew for what it was that they were fighting. Buck states to Huck, “…but they don’t know, now, what the row was about the first place” (104). This example proves that Father Grangerford is too proud to find peace with the Shepherdsons, and consequently, a shootout begins, resulting in his own family’s deaths. Pride, the most Deadly Sin, accompanies more evils throughout the novel, leading Huck down a path in which he will view all Seven Deadly Sins.

Gluttony and Wrath are two deadly sins that are also evident in Clemens’ novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These two sins introduce Huck to violence and death. While “stealing” money from the residents at the Brickville revival, the duke and the king gorge on the food there. This form of “stock piling” food is also seen on the raft. In the town of Brickville, the king “…had fetched away a three-gallon jug of whisky….”(119). As the duke and the king traveled down the river with Jim and Huck, they were overdrinking to extremes. The notion that they must hoard the whisky is in fact an act of Gluttony. Pap is comparable to these two scoundrels in relation to his drinking habits. Huck exper

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