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=The Laws Imperfections=



===In the novel Huck Finn the injustice of our judicial system is quite apparant. Huck Finn is son to a bumbling drunk with no desire to care for his son, instead he simply desires the money that comes along with that. Judge Thatcher and Widow Douglas try effortlessly to gain custody of young huck but to no avail. Another judge, new to the town, believes that huck's natural father should be more entitled to custody despite his raging alcohol problem which deems his anything but a fit parent. As illustrated in "//The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guardian; but it was a new judge that had just come, and he didn't know the old man; so he said courts mustn't interfere and separate families if they could help it; said he'd druther not take a child away from its father. So Judge Thatcher and the widow had to quit on the business"(//Twain Chapter 5). The judge has so much faith in the rehabilitation of Huck's father he even allows him into his own home in order to watch his progress. Unfortunately, Pap (as he is called in the novel) soon revisits his old ways.=== ===Widow Douglas is aware of the inability of Pap to take care of Huck the way a child should be taken care of. Pap becomes outraged by the widow's attempts to keep him away from his son and decides to kidnap him from Ms. Douglas's home. He then takes Huck to a cabin across the river where he is locked away and frequently beaten. "//Every little while he locked me in and went down to the store, three miles, to the ferry, and traded fish and game for whisky, and fetched it home and got drunk and had a good time, and licked me"//(Twain Chapter 6).Since the law had turned its back on Huck he decides to take it upon himself to get out of the messy situation he is in. By faking his own death he is allowed to escape the confines of the cabin and flee to Jackson Island.=== ===This critique of our countries judicial system by Twain helps to illustrate how although it is a sound system the people who help run it sometimes make mistakes. The judge believed he was making the right decision by giving Huck's father a second chance, but had he thought more about Huck's well being rather than the fathers rights Huck wouldn't have had to bear the torture and confinement brought to him courtesy of his biological father. The law system is designed to be a reliable system, but people help to misconstue this idea by allowing thier own beliefs and feelings to stray them away from what is best for others. If Judge Thatcher had been able to make the ruling she would have granted custody to Widow Douglas who in the long run would have provided a more suitable life for Huck.===

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