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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 in the story. In Huckleberry Finn, friendship supersedes superstition and popular beliefs. Huck in particular is forced to mature and forget superstition. In Chapter one, Huck sees a spider crawling up his shoulder, so he flicks it into the flame of a candle, where it shrivels up before he could retrieve it. Huck realizes that this 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. 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 an ox's stomach. Jim asks the hairball, "Why is Pap here?" But the hairball won't answer. Jim says it needs money, so Huck gives Jim a counterfeit quarter that Huck had been bragging about earlier in the novel. Jim puts the quarter under the hairball. The hairball talks to Jim, Jim then proceeds to tell Huck: "Yo'ole father doan' know yit what he's a-gwyne to do. Som
Dey's two angles hoverin' roun' 'bout him. Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well ag'in. It lunges, and bites Jim on the heel of his foot. Dey's two gals flyin' 'bout yo' in yo' life. 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 maturing. Later, when night comes, Jim sits down on the blanket and the snake's mate is there. The concept of "good luck and bad luck" may be considered superstition, but more interesting events unfold. On the one hand, he has become engrained with very primitive ideas or superstitions, which tend to persist even alongside the religious beliefs of the community around him. Jim than mentions that the rattles will aid his snakebite, Huck than replies, "I made up my mind I wouldn't ever take a-holt of a snake-skin again with my hands, now that I see what had come of it. In Chapter ten, Huck and Jim run into som!e "good luck and some bad luck". After they eat dinner on the Friday, they lay in the grass, when Huck runs out of tobacco. You gwyne to have considable trouble in yo' life, en considable joy. However, he constantly questions whether it would be best to return home - home to normal life but not to end his friendship with Jim. I also believe superstition foreshadows many of the events throughout the novel.
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