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Huck's Education


In Mark Twain's novel, //The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn//, Twain makes points about the education in America. He displays this through Huck by displaying his ambition and lust for learning. He also shows how much he cares for table manners and such as many americans did at that time period. Twain used Huck as a tool to display his feelings about the American society and it's education.

At the beginning the widow and Miss Watson both try to educate Huck so he would be a more "respectable" young man. Huck had not recieved an education before because his father's lack of money and work. His father was a steryotypical hillbilly; he drank quite a bit, lived in a shack out near the woods, and did not have great etiquette. His father did not care for an education either so Huck had to recieve help from others. Children also act as the models around them do as they grow up; and his father did not care for an education. This seemed to have rubbed off well on Huck, it showed well when Miss Watson tried to teach him spelling. "Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there." He just wanted to get out and experience something else, he did not care for the teachings much at all. Even though there was some bumps they did not give up on teaching him.
 * //- Chapter 1//**

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