The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Huck's Final Triumph
Mr. Ray Browne, in this essay, explores how Tom Sawyer, at the conclusion of the novel, is affected by a negative moral influence which Huck must struggle to overcome.
Throughout the book Huck's attitude toward the life around him is remarkably ambivalent. Though he clearly is rebelling against respectability and civilization, he rebels because they make him uncomfortable and ill at ease. He fights them by running away. When he can no longer abide the "pecking" of the Widow and Miss Watson, and the privations they force upon him, he flees, but only to the rags and sugar-hogshead of the other side of town. He does not need to go farther. In fact, he must stay within commuting distance of respectable folk. And he quickly and easily returns when a lure is...
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