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Huckleberry Finn And Transcendentalism
Hour 1 Huck Finn Persuasion Most people gain knowledge through life experiences, not through schooling. Huckleberry Finn was written twenty years after the Civil War, by Mark Twain, about the everpresent struggles to overcome oppression, racism and society. Throughout the novel, Twain uses the views of Transcendentalism to describe and account for Huck’s mistakes, actions, and sentiments. Transcendentally, Huck deserves praise at the end of the novel, because of all the things he has done to uphold his beliefs. "We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft"(chapter 18). In the adventures that Huck has experienced, he excelled in gaining more knowledge than those who took part in educating themselves at schools. Some may say that Huck acts as a delinquent because he ran away, stole, and went against the ways of society, however, these qualities make Huck the outstanding person that he is. Generosity overcame Huck during his journey with a runaway slave, Jim. Of course, he could do the "proper" action of turning Jim in and risking his life, or keep the promise they once made to stand beside one another and never tell on the opposite. When the question came to Huck of turning Jim in, it ate him up inside and he questioned his intentions. As it says in chapter thirtyone, "It was a close place. I took . . . up [the letter I’d written to Miss Watson], and held it in my hand. I was atrembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right then, I’ll go to hell"—and tore it up. It was awful thoughts and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming." Because Huck did not want to reform to wha... Please login to view comments from other users.
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