Huck's Heroic Father

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Running away from home, Huck, a child whose father is not only an alcoholic, but also an extremely abusive person. Affecting Huck mentally and emotionally due to him being neglected and abused by his father. Due to such abuse, Huck's past has been macabre, the outlook for Huck’s future appears grim.

Smoking cigarettes, the first sign given by Huck. A predictable response, “a child use the parent’s state of mind to regulate the child’s own mental process” this said by Child Abuse and Neglect and as we know Huck’s dad was filled with hubris. Due to the fact that he had such a bombastic father he also became revelatory to everything as well a gullible. He had the,"inability to accurately recognize emotions in others." Such events would be when
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