Huck Finn Argumentative Essay

The novel starts as Huck is in the midst of being converted into what they believe is a “proper” society member by the Widow Douglas and her sister Ms. Watson. He is forced to abandon his ways that are deemed uncivilized and to instead conform to the ways dictated by upper class society. He’s on his way to conforming, as shown when he mentions how “At first I hated the school, but by and by I got so I could stand it. So the longer I went to school the easier it got to be. I was getting sort of used to the widow's ways, too, and they warn't so raspy on me. I liked the old ways best, but I was getting so I liked the new ones, too, a little bit (Twain 16). Huck’s on his way to being a member of society, which would dissolve his individualistic personality, and more or less, crush the biggest link he shares with Emerson and Thoreau. …show more content…
Things are quite fine, until eventually Huck’s drunken father comes back and kidnaps Huck, forcing him against his will to reside in his cabin. Even now, after Huck isn’t under the eye of the widow anymore, his individuality is still being suppressed. Though now, he’s controlled by the polar opposite of his former predicament of the high end of society. Even though Huck was rather more comfortable in this environment than he was at the widow’s, it still isn’t true nature. He still has someone who controls him in some way or form. He does say that “It was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing, and no books nor study. It was pretty good times up in the woods there, take it all around (Twain 26). Though, it is just likely because he prefered it to the widow’s

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