Tuesday, February 4, 2014

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Today I will be analyzing the first few paragraphs and last few paragraphs and how they relate to the plot and theme of a book. A line in the beginning of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" that I found to relate most to the theme reads, "The widow Douglas took me for her son, and allowed she would silvilize me.." And a line at the end reads, "Aunt Sally, she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before." 

The theme of this book is Society has corrupted the term "civilize" to oppose moral values. Huckleberry Finn realizes this throughout the book and decides his own standards will oppose that of society because he believes what is deemed civilized is in fact, quite the opposite. In the beginning, widow Douglas has taken Huckleberry Finn as her son and civilizes him based on Society's standards and in the end, Aunt Sally plans on civilizing Huck but Huck mentions he has dealt with what Society calls civilized and what he calls civilized and has made up his mind as to what is right.