chosen by a conscious decision or not this is a place where one can go to

sort their thoughts. Nature can often provide comfort by providing a nurturing

surrounding where a child is forced to look within and choices can be made

untainted by society. Mark Twain once said "Don't let school get in the way

of your education." Twain states that this education which is provided by

society, can actually hinder human growth and maturity. Although a formal

education shouldn't be completely shunned, perhaps true life experience, in

society and nature, are a key part of development. In the novel Adventures of

Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain throws the curious yet innocent mind of Huck

Finn out into a very hypocritical, judgmental, and hostile world, yet Huck has

one escape--the Mississippi River constantly flowing nearby. Here nature is

presented as a thought provoking environment when experienced alone. The

river is quiet and peaceful place where Huck can revert to examine any

predicament he might find himself in: "They went off, and I got aboard the

raft, feeling bad and low...Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold

on,- s'pose you'd a done right and give J

along, talking, and singing, and laughing. But somehow I couldn't see no

presented in the form of the river where Huck goes to think. Though no

which he gives to Jim go completely against all that "sivilization" has taught

the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating

concise answer is given, the literature forces the reader to examine their

what was his idea, time of the evasion?- what it was he planned to do if the

hell'..." (pp.270-271). After a long and thought-provoking adventure, Huck

to see that "sivilization", in their treatment of blacks especially, is not civilized

someone else blindly, as the whole country were some sort of mob. In the

to be the one with a clear and intelligent mind, and Tom, although he can

solitude and thought, where he was able to participate in society at times, and

do now? No, says I, I'd feel bad..." (p.127). Only a few weeks with Jim and

also sit back and observe society. Through the child's eye we see how

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