What is Wrong With UsAn Analysis of Mark's Twain's Beliefs on Society

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Anyone who has read any of Mark Twain's books can clearly see that he has some real problems with the way that society works. In his novel entitled The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses a mixture of satire and sarcasm to mock the society in which he lives. I am not as good a writer as he but I too find some problems in the society in which I find myself. I went through the book and tried to find areas of society in which we both have difficulties. In this essay I go in depth with each issue. It is interesting that, even though we live in very different time periods, a lot of the same problems still exist.

The first issue I saw was that of religion. My personal views on religion are stronger than that of Twain's. I don't believe it is necessary to believe in God to live a happy life. I don't believe in God and I have never had any problem in my seventeen years on this planet that stem from my not believing. That is not to say that I don't feel very grateful and blessed for what I have. I just don't thank any God for it. I thank my Mom and Gary for their hard work to make sure that I have all the things I need.

I also think Christianity has some serious hypocrisy happening within it's ranks. They use God and

Another major issue that I saw in this novel is a close relative to religion and that is morality, specifically honesty versus lying. Personally I don't think that lying is that horrible under certain circumstances. If you lie to protect yourself that is okay as long as you don't hurt anyone else in the process. Other than that I always tell the truth. I find that I feel dirty if I don't. However Huck doesn't seem to feel the same way as me. If he sees something or someone that might be potentially dangerous he just throws a lie at it. Lies Huck tells are called "white lies" because they really don't hurt anyone and they do save him a number of times. An example of this would be when he lies to the men on the raft . He lies about his name and where he comes from but it is only to get out of that situation and nothing bad comes of it. Nobody is hurt because of it. From the characters of the Duke and the King we see the real sinners. Through them we see what Twain thinks of real bad liars that make their living by duping society. At the same time he uses them as liars, he is also showing us how stupid and gullible people can be.

"And I about made up my mind to pray; and see if I couldn't try quitting the kind of boy I was, and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldn't they? I knowed very well they wouldn't come. I was because my heart weren't right; it was because I warn't square. I was letting on that I would give up sin, but inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all."

We can see here that Huck will never be a real believer in God because he will not let go of that sin. That big sin is that he knows what is the right thing to do: free Jim. But society in the form of the widow and Miss Watson have made it so that he has to fight a moral battle that someone like me would not even think twice about. Because of how I've been raised, I would certainly free Jim.

"I do believe that he cared as much for his people as white people do for therin."

I find it interesting that we have a lot of the same views on society even we lived generations apart. This confirms another point in which I strongly believe. That is that we will always be basically the same. Sure, little details will change like technology but the core of the way we live will never change as long as we have a variety of people like Hitler and Mother Theresa in the same world. "Humans don't like change a

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Approximate Word count = 1650
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

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