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In the novel "The Adventure Of Huckleberry Finn", Mark Twain shows readers that violence is not a good way to solve problems. He teaches us that when you use violence to solve a problem it just bring more violence.==

"He was drunk, and weaving about in his saddle; he was fifty years old, and had a very red face. Everyboddy yelled at him, and laughed at him, and sassed him and he sassed back and said he'd attend to them and lay them out in their regular turns, but he couldn't wait now because he'd come to town to kill old Colonel Sherburn, and his motto was 'meat first, and spoon vittles to top off on.'...So somebody started on a run. I walked down streed a ways,and stopped. In about five or ten minutes, here comes Boggs again-but not on his horse. He was a-reeling across the street towards me, bareheaded, with a friend on both sides of him aholt of his arms and hurrying him along. he was quite, and looked uneasy; and he warnt having back any, but was doing some of the hurrying humself. Somebody sing out-

=**'Boog!' **= I looked over there to see who said it, and it was that Colonel Sherburn. He was standing prfectly still, in the street, and had a pistol raised in his right hand-not aiming it, but holding it out with the barrel titled up toward the sky. the same second I see a young girl coming on the run, and two men with her. Boogs and the men turned round, to see who called him, and when they see they see the pistol the men jump to one side, and the barrel come down slow and steady to a level-both barrels cocked. Boogs thows up of his hands, and says, 'O Lord, don't shoot!' Bang! goes the first shot, he staggers back clawing at the air-bang! goes the second one, and he tumbles backwards onto the ground, heavy and solid, with his arms spread out.''