Huck Finn Small Town Life
In Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"he talks about small town life in Southern Mississippi. Heportrays it as gossipy, a place where everyone knowseveryone and knows everyone else's business and doesn't careto tell it. It is confining to Huck and Jim because thereis too much conforming to society. This is why they escape In Chapter 18 when Huck goes into town dressed as a
Twain attempts to demonstrate this by portraying small townlife and gossipy and confining. Twain is depicting small towns in a gossipy manner,where no one has discretion. This shows how in smalltowns people aren't afraid to talk. They dress him up in fancyclothes, try to teach him religion and try to take away allof his individuality. Huck however, escapes their attempts to"sivilize" him by running away. She is able to tell him everythingthat is going on despite this. e talks to a woman who has onlylived there two weeks. Twain is also characterizing small towns as confiningwith a lot of conformation to society. Miss Watson is one of the mainpeople to show this because of her trying to change Huck. Not only did the womanfreely give all the information to someone she didn't know,someone had to tell her all about it in a two week tomespan. Twain shows that he has some contempt for small townlife and it's behaviors. They do this because this is what thesociety in their small town accepts, and they don't want himto be different than anyone else, because how would thatmake them look. His dislike is seenespecially through Huck who escapes the conformity to livehis own life. When Huck goes tolive with the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, they try toturn him into someone he's not.
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