Blog Post 2: Huck Finn ( CH. 13-17)

In Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author greatly describes Huck, the protagonist, that he is greatly influenced by Widow Douglas, Tom Sawyer, Pap and Jim.

Widow Douglas influences Huck in a directly good way because she teaches and makes him believe the importance of education, manners and religion. Widow Douglas indirectly influenced Huck by giving him freedom to do what ever he wants sometimes when it’s not the right thing to do. A quote that the widow said to Huck that follows how she influences him is, on page 3; she told him “you would want to go to the good side than the bad side when you die, even if you don’t like your life”.

Tom Sawyer influences Huck in a good way because he shows him that you don’t have to do something, if you don’t want to and you can still have fun and be adventurous. Tom doesn’t influence Huck in a bad way because he messes, lies and cons people into doing something else. A quote that Huck says that goes to show that Tom influenced him was on page 50. Huck said “man I wish Tom Sawyer was here, he would be proud of me, just like he would be doing’ it.”

Pap influences Huck in a good way by showing him how to survive in the wild and know what to do in it. Pap indirectly influences Huck in a bad way by telling him that stealing is sometimes borrowing if you give the person something else or return it later, even if you don’t have permission. Also that school and religion is bad because you don’t want to be better than your father. A passage that pap says to Huck is that he will not grow up to be better than him. He will either be the same or worse than him. This shows that pap dosen't care about Huck.

Jim influences Huck in a good way by telling him not to worry about things that can happen and worry about things that you could do to change that. Jim indirectly influences Huck in a bad way by telling him all these supersitions, which they now both think they happen, and know that is why he worries a lot about things that will happe. Based on superstitions. A passage that jim tells him is that if you take the snake's skin off after it bits you. Then, nothing bad will happen to you because of the bite.