Huckelberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain contains symbolism associated with superstition. This is demonstrated by both the actions and beliefs of the characters and the events which occur in the story. The way in which friendship supersedes superstition and popular beliefs plays a major role throughout. Huck in particular is forced to mature and forget superstition when he is faced with the internal dilemma of his best friend, Jim, being a runaway slave.In Chapter one, Huck sees a spider crawling up his shoulder, so he flicks it into the flame of a candle, where it shrivles up before he could retrieve it. Huck realizes that it is a bad omen, which will bring bad luck. He becomes scared and shakes off his clothes, then proceeds to turn in his tracks three times. He then ties a lock of his hair with a thread to keep the witches away. "You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep of bad luck when you'd killed a spider."(Twain 5). In chapter four, Huck sees Pap's footprints in the snow. He then goes to Jim to ask him why Pap is here. Jim goes and gets a fist sized hairball, which was taken from a
You's gwyne to marry de po' one fust en de rich one by en by. Then, after they eat some dinner on the Friday, they are lying in the grass, when Huck runs out of tobacco. Throughout the novel we see Huck struggling to resolve his mixed feelings and emotions with regard to Jim and to the world in which he is growing up. Jim asks the hairball, "Why is Pap here?" But the hairball won't answer. De white one gits him to go right a little while, den de black one sil in en gust it all up. Dey's two angles hoverin' roun' 'bout him. A body can't tell yit which one gwyne to fetch him at de las'. Dey's two gals flyin' 'bout yo' in yo' life. The hairball talks to Jim and Jim tells Huck that it says:"Yo'ole father doan' know yit what he's a-gwyne to do. You wants to keep 'way fum de water as much as you kin, en don't run no resk, 'kase it's down in de bills dat you's gwyne to git hung. They then decide to cook part of it, and eat it. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is filled with symbolism associated with the superstitious beliefs of the South at the time of slavery.
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