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=The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn=

//Written By: Mark Twain//


=My Topic:=

Education: There are many reasons why our parents make us go to school everyday until we become young adults. When Huck is taken back to the judge his father they are more concerned about Pa's alcoholism than the reality that Huck is in danger of being horribly abused. They are choosing to take the easier path by trying to fix the physical problem; the sympton of the disease. By avoiding the real, more emotional aspects, they are trying to give Pa a remedy rather than treating him for his disease.

Throughout the novel we see that without an education, kids tend to make rash decisions based on their personal experiences, which are usually not very logical. Kids like Huck Finn had not been given any schooling before his journey, so his decisions were rash. His father abused alochol and beat Huck as well. When they were speaking to the judge, it was clear they were more focused on the lesser of the two subjects. With Hucks father being an alcoholic it is hard for Huck to see rationally because his own opinions are scarce and the ones his father tells him are invalid.

All around us people always try and take the easiest way out of things. It is like taking a look at the symptom and giving you a perscription remedy for just that, rather than looking at the disease in its entireity that is really killing the person. In Huck Finn, Pa has many emotional issues which he needs to deal with. He covers them up with his alcoholism which is an easy target for the Judge to try and fix so he still seems like he is carrying out the law and his job taking the blame away from himself. By sending Pa off and telling him to lose the alcohol, the Judge is letting not only Pa off easily, but himself as well. This conclusion creates an easy solution to a problem which ventures far deeper than alcoholism.

By solving alcoholism it will solve all the problems(tries to eliminate the problem so it will make everything go away) takes the easy way out rather than focusing on the racism they try to take the easy way and leave out the social aspect of it.

physical fix rather than sympton rather than a disease

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