Commentary on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn :: essays research papers

This passage comes from the first chapter of The Adventures of huckabackleberry Finn, by Mark mates. Huckleberry is explaining how life is with the Widow Douglas and get away Watson. He is describing one evening at his new home in their company. This section serves to characterize the two ladies, to foreshadow some events that will expire later in the novel, to create a mood of oddment, to reinforce the radix of death and rebirth, and to characterize Huckleberry. At the beginning of the passage, Huck describes dominate Watson as a deeply religious person. She talks about the good key (3), as a reward for sivilized people. Twain satirizes religion when the widow says that either a body does in heaven is play the harp and palaver forever and ever (3). Indeed, why would she want to sing endlessly at once she is gone? But because of Hucks pure heart, he didnt think much of it (3). All he wants is to be with Tom Sawyer. So even at the beginning of the story, Huck is already rejecting society because he does not care about going to heaven. In addition, Miss Watson is flirt with toward Huck. She keeps pecking (3) at him. The word pecking is very important in this passage because it compares Miss Watson as a bird that strikes with its beak. This comparison suggests that Miss Watson is a taxi and that her constant criticism is painful to Huck. With the help of Hucks description, the indorser can infer that the two ladies are civilized and educated, but surprisingly, when it comes to slaves, they recede all of their humanity and just fetched the niggers in and had prayers (3). They treat them no give away than they would treat animals. Their behavior toward slaves demonstrates how superficial and hypocritical they are.In addition, Mark Twain foreshadows death, which will happen later in the book. For example, when Huck goes up to his room, he feels lonesome (3), he wishes he were dead. In this passage, Twain emphasizes the theme of Hucks quest for fr eedom. Huck has a need for liberty. Since he is stuck in a house he feels tiresome (3), and locked in. The author also uses many a(prenominal) morbid words to foreshadow death, such as mournful, dead, crying, die, shivers, ghosts, grave and grieving (3). As a result, the death imagery and diction creates a dreadful mood.