... is. He decides to take Jim and head back to the river, where he can escape the corrupted ways of society. Huck asks Buck what a feud is, and this was bucks reply "'Well, says Buck, 'a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother ... and by and by everybody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud. But it's kind of slow, and takes a long time'" (Twain 124). Here Buck is explaining what a feud is to Huck. Usually there would be nothing wrong with that, except that he says it so casual, as if it were a normal ... their hypocoris...

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... goodness. The Grangerfords have good manners toward each other, but the ongoing feud destroyed that. When Huck and Buck are outside walking one day, Buck tried to shoot a member of a Shepherdson family. Huck was startled and asked Buck the reason he attempted to commit murder. Buck explains there is a feud between the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons. When both families went to the Sunday mass, both ... ...

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... cruelty of humans. In the story Huck witnesses multiple murders and is directly involved in one other. The first bloodshed Huck witnesses in the novel is in Chapter 18 when Buck Grangerford and his cousin Joe are in the gun battle with the Shepardsons. During the fight Huck had climbed a tree and watched the battle. While ... Buck was talking to Huck, the Shepardsons snuck around behind Buck and Joe and shot at them. The injured Buck and Joe jumped into the river to get away, but the Shepardsons shot at them from the riverbank. Seeing this horrible violence ... ...

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... the novel the Shepherdsons killed Bud who was a Grangerfords. The family accepts the death and Col. Grangerson motivates his kids to kill a Shepherdson as soon as they can. When one Buck, a Grangerford, sees Harney, a Shepherdson, in the woods he shoots at him. He tried to kill him but he did not succeed. When ... Buck returned home, he told his father what had happened and he encouraged him to next time get a better shot and jump out of the bushes. The family feud ends in ... the novel at the log store and woodpile. The Shephersons had killed Buck's father and his two brothers. When H...

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... stupid confrontations happen over no reasons, or stupid reasons like bumping into someone in the hallway or wearing blue instead of red. An example in Huck Finn is Huck and Buck went out Liu 3 in the woods one day to go hunting when they saw a horse coming, and jumped into the woods, when the horse passed, it was Harney Shepherdson, and ... then Buck shot at him (Huck 107). When they returned home, Huck asked Buck if he wanted to shoot him. Buck answered yes, but then said Harney never did anything to him, but only shot at him for the account of the feud ... ...

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... progresses, the Grangerfords take Huck in and let him stay for a while. Huck meets a boy that is the same age as him, Buck. Huck asks him what the whole cause about the feud between his family and the Shepherdsons. Buck tells him that "they don't know now what the row was about in the first place"[c], but the only fact ... them (99).[d] Then one day, Huck is left alone in the house, when he hears a loud gunshot. He realizes that the two families are killing each other. Then, he finds Buck running away from a Shepherdson. He wants to help, but he does not know what to do, and soon after ...

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... . Twain writes with dramatic irony by helping the reader realize what is happening before the characters in the story does. A very humorous use of irony in Chapter 17 is when Buck misspells Huck's other name for "George Jaxon", and then Huck "set down, private because somebody might want me to spell it next.", which means he learned to spell his own ... than most of the public, when he shows in Chapter 18 "Each person had their own nigger to wait on them - Buck too. My nigger had a monstrous easy time, because I warn't used to having anybody do anything for me, but Buck's was on the jump...

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... easily because they were not thinking for themselves, but he was. It all started out with Sherburn killing a harmless drunk. The people of the town were in shock, but when Buck Harkness shouted, "Lynch him!" the crowd followed the leader blindly to Sherburn's house to lynch him. However, he got out of being lynched by thinking for himself, while the crowd ... low compared to him because he called them all cowards because of where they lived. They were ashamed of where they came from. Sherburn further puts down the mob's leader, Buck Harkness. They all turn to the leader; the crowd follo...

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... show what lives of Southernersand their religion were like. The families had been fighting forthirty years, but no one knew the reason. When Huck asked if itwas caused by land, Buck Grangerford replied, "I reckon maybe - Idon't know" (Twain 140). Both of the families took guns to churchand discussed the sermon reported by Huck to be "^a pretty ornerypreaching-all about brotherly love ... of the people on shores againstthose of Huck and Jim in a way that Huck's and Jim's werepositively portrayed. The values of the rural Southern UnitedStates were negatively portrayed with satire. Buck Gr...

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... because Catholics believe everybody to be equal in God's eyes, while everyone is treating the blacks like they are not as important as the whites. While Buck Grangerford explains the Grangerford - Sheperdson feud to Huck, Buck states that "The men took their guns [to church] and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. (Twain 148)" The feud ... ...

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... Huck. Through this feud, Huck learned just how bad war and hatred could really be. This was amplified when the Grangerford family member that he had come to know well, Buck, was killed in the feud. His timely death made Huck realize that there really shouldn't be something silly enough to make a child no older than himself become a crazed murderer. He ... was mature enough to realize that Buck's statement, "A feud is something where everyone on one side wants to kill everyone on the other side, until by and by everybody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud ... ...

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... feud with the Shepherdsons breeds sinister sentiments into all who are involved in the violence. Huck's experience with society in the form of the feud is traumatizing because his friend Buck Grangerford and a relative are chased and brutally shot by some members of the Shepherdson family while Huck sits in a tree and watches helplessly. The feud portion of the story is ... view for Huck such as hate and violence, and Twain displays this powerfully when Huck comes down from the tree weeping as he covers his friend's corpse and thinks how "[Buck] was mighty good to [him]" (138). It is cl...

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... the middle of a feud with their neighbors. The other was when Huck witnessed the brutality of the feud firsthand. He watched a fire fight between Buck, his cousin, and some of the Sheperdsons. Needless to say, both Buck and his cousin were injured and Huck was off. He stole away to the river with Jim. Huck enjoyed his stay with the Grangerfords but ... ...

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... and when they learn that he is not a Shepherdson, the family is very kind and welcoming. Huck enjoys the company and makes good friends with Buck, a member of the Grangerford family who is around his age. From Buck he learns that the Grangerford and Shepherdson families have a long-standing feud. One day, Miss Sophia Grangerford asks Huck to do her a favor and ... ...

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... and when they learn that he is not a Shepherdson, the family is very kind and welcoming. Huck enjoys the company and makes good friends with Buck, a member of the Grangerford family who is around his age. From Buck he learns that the Grangerford and Shepherdson families have a long-standing feud. One day, Miss Sophia Grangerford asks Huck to do her a favor and ... ...

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... 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 ... 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 ...

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... with the Shepherdson family and they do not even remember the reason for the feud. Huck becomes a friend to Buck Grangerford, who treats Huck kindly. Later a gun battle occurs and all of the Grangerfords brothers and their father are killed, including Buck. Once again Huck learns that adults can be ugly and Huck realizes that he can no longer stay there, "I wished ... ...

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... , while giving us a taste of how Huck views the situation. "Next Sunday we all went to church, about three mile, everybody a-horseback. The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching- all about brotherly love, and such like ... ...

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... . To the both of them the Mississippi River represents freedom. Chapters XVII to XVIII 1. Huck regards the whole Grangerford family as a fine educated aristocratic, Southern family. He seems to admire Buck, but also has a lot to teach him. Huck also regards the Shepherdson family as high-toned and well born and rich. 2. Chapters XIX to XXIII 1. When Boggs is first introduced ... ...

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... his money for alcohol. The duke is a scam artist that is very clever and wily. He can lie to anyone about anything. He will do almost anything to make a quick buck. The King is pretty much the same as the duke except he is old. He isn't as smart as the duke but they make a good team together. Mrs. Watson is ... ...

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... that humans commit become that much more disturbing when it can be shown that such violence has no reason or justification. Twain shows this to us when Huck is asking Buck Grangerford about when the feud all started. "Oh, yes, pa knows, I reckon and some of the other old people; but they don't know what the row was about in the ... ...

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... that slaves were looked upon in this novel was nothing but slaves and nothing else. In the story Huck runs into a family a rich people, and there he finds a friend named Buck. At the house everyone member of the family had there own slave to do everything for them. And if they didn't they would be beaten so bad they would always ... ...

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... two men, supposedly civilized and well learned, be so vile and cruel? These two will do anything to make money; they even sell Jim as a runaway slave to make a quick buck. This is the final straw for Huck. He has seen a lot of corruptness in civilization, but if these two are indeed civilized, then Huck wants nothing to do with it ... ...

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... or her beliefs. After killing a man for his drunkenness, a mob approaches his house. He tells the members of the mob that they are only being led by half of a man, Buck Harkness, and that they are all cowards. Colonel Sherburn believes that since the people in the mob are followers, that none of them are true "men." He lectures them on ... ...

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"We was always naked, day and night, whenever the mosquitos would let us - the new clothes Buck's folks made for me was too good to be comfortable, and besides I didn't do much on clothes no how." These words escaped the mouth of Huck, a character portrayed throughout Mark ... ...

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