From+the+Novel

= = =**__It's All About Education__**=

__Event:__
http://www.telliquah.com/schoolhouse4a.jpg ===“I stood a-looking at him; he set there a-looking at me, with his chair tilted back a little. I set the candle down. I noticed the window was up; so he had clumb in by the shed. He kept a-looking me all over. By and by he says:===

‘Maybe I am, maybe I ain’t,’I says.
===… ‘You’ve put on considerable many frills since I been away…You’re educated, too, they say—can read and write. You think you’re better’n your father, now, don’t you, because he can’t? I’ll take it out of you. Who told you you might meddle with such hifalut’n foolishness hey?—who told you you could?”===

**__Analysis:__**
===This scene just depicts one of the main topics in __Huckleberry Finn,__ which is the image that was given to those with education in that time period. Education in that time period was pretty much only available to the wealthy and higher classes, so it would only seem logical that Huck’s father would want to criticize him for being educated, because those who were educated tended to believe they were better than those who were not. So, Huck’s father assumed that if Huck because educated, he would think highly of himself and believe himself superior to his father. In actuality, Huck was only literate through his bouts with the Widow, and although he might have resisted, it was inevitable that Huck could acquire the skills of reading and writing, which were more than most people were able to acquire, especially if they were lower class.===

__Education in the Novel:__
===The opportunity to be educated was something only experienced by the rich and priviledged, but in the novel we see Huck totally wanting to refrain from his studies. Although the lower class were never really seen as the people with education, they also did not long for it as much, either, mostly because it had never been an option for them. So, it was no surprise to see Huck reluctant to the notion of being educated, so one thing that could be noticed in particular in this book was the way Huck didn't take advantage of the opportunity to gain an education. That is a point Twain might have tried to express and it could also be compared to modern problems, such as the way students dropout of school while they have the opportunity to attend.===



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