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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 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 i!t 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 an ox's stomach.
Jim puts the quarter under the hairball. While snooping around in an overcoat, Huck and Jim find eight dollars in one of the pockets. Dey's two gals flyin' 'bout yo' in yo' life. Jim says it needs money, so Huck gives Jim a counterfeit quarter that Huck had been bragging about earlier in the novel. You's gwyne to marry de po' one fust en de rich one by en by. One uv 'em's light en t'other one is dark. 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. Jim tells Huck to chop off the snake's head, and to then skin the body of the snake. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is filled with symbolism associated with the superstitious beliefs of the South at the time of slavery. One uv'em is white en shiny, en t'other one is black. 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. Sometimes he spec he'll go 'way, en den ag'in he spec he'll stay. When Huck goes home and finds Pa there, it re-enforces his belief in the occult and also his trust in his friend Jim.
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