Twain did a good job in the book to show how Huck rejects convention, while on the other hand Tom just cannot understand why someone would do anything else. "The widow sivilize me; but it was rough living, in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out"(3). Huck sees how ordinary The Widow is and he leaves, by doing this Huck rejects schooling, religion and all else that is commonplace. Huck sees all of these as monotonous subjects as instruments of convention, so he rejects them and by doing so he helps himself become more of an individual. On the other hand Tom is fully indoctrinated into their society; "Why blame it all we've got to do it. Don't I tell you it's in the books? Do you want to go to doing different from what's in the books, and get things

Twain uses the voice of Huck and Tom to demonstrate the hypocrisy of religion. "Next Sunday we all went to church...The men all took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees... all about brotherly love,... everybody said it was a good sermon... lot to say about faith and good works..."(106).The Grangerfords all go to church with their guns in one hand and a bible in the other, it doesn't take a genius to see this as being quite hypocritical. The Grangerfords bringing their guns to church just reconfirms the pointlessness of even going there in the first place, they would be better off just going out and killing each other, at least they wouldn't completely ruin the already tarnished name of the church. Not only does Twain criticize people whom don't practice what they preach, but he goes on to critizice religion as a whole very subtly; "But there warn't no Spaniards and A-rabs, and there warn't no camels nor no elephants. It warn't anything but a Sunday-school picnic,..."(14). Tom was used here to show how his "elephants" and "A-rabs" were really "God" and "heaven". I feel Twain is criticizing religion to show how it is really a mad man's (Jesus=Tom) fantasy to control the masses (the people=Huck and friends). Twa

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