Thursday, January 22, 2009

"nothing couldnt be better"-Huck

Isnt it strange how Hucks states that "nothing couldnt be better" than living in a comfortable home like the Grangerford's but in this family there is so much turmoil how could it ever be comfortable. The family is in a war against another family and yet Huck sees past this in the beginning and finds himself enjoying the life in company of a family. When he leaves however he is deeply disturbed how the boy about his age,Buck, and another Grangerford die in a gunfight against the Sheperdsons. I think that this kind of symbolizes prejudice shown throughout this book. There is no logical reason for the two families to be fighting,not that they can remeber anyway, yet they do. Its like the world, in which we have prejudice against someone for no apparent reason and we are somehow comfortable with it, untill we take a step back and look at the damage we cause.

1 comment:

  1. This useless fighting is part of everyday life. Look at our society. There is violence all around us. This book was written long ago but you can tell that not much has changed in our society. Sadly we still have prejudice now jsut as much as we did when this book was written. This is a never ending cycle that Twain was able to catch in this story.

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