The Contradiction between Beliefs and Actions in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

During the era in which Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, society was seemingly divided into two separate belief systems. These systems included the racial and religious systems. The religious system promoted equality and fellowship among people while the other encouraged the complete opposite. Due to these two varying systems, many people were divided into two separate groups: the “civilized” and the “other.” These two discriminatory and hypocritical belief systems were something that Mark Twain highly opposed and this was evident in his most popular tale. The main theme in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the social hypocrisy between society and religion. It is through Huck’s experiences with Jim and his own upbringing

Huck Finn, a narcissistic and unreliable young boy, slowly morphs into a courteous figure of respect and selflessness. After Pap abducts the young and civilized Huck, Huck descends into his old habits of lies and half-truths. However, upon helping a runaway slave escape, Huck regains morality and a sense of purpose. Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck lies to characters, casting the authenticity of the story into doubt but illustrating Huck’s gradual rejection of lying for himself and a shift towards lying for others.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, many characters hold on to righteous, “moral” beliefs while acting in the contrary. In chapter 26, Aunt Alexandra holds a house party for all the ladies in the town. Scout joins in, invited by her aunt, who sees a chance to teach Scout to be more ladylike. Her next-chair tablemate, Mrs. Merriwea`ther, talks about the poor, uneducated, savage “darkies” in Africa, and tells about how she is devoted to helping them as a good Christian lady. However, once the conversation turns to their black servants, Mrs. Farrow says “we can try ‘till we drop to make Christians out of ‘em, but there isn’t a lady safe in her bed these nights” (311). The stark contrast between wanting to help the Africans in the jungles to feeling minorly disgusted with the ones in Maycomb makes Scout become aware of the racial hypocrisy. Mrs. Maudie also points out a different type of hypocrisy with the ladies, who

Huckleberry Finn is trying to say that telling lies can be hurtful and that the truth must be always be told. After Huck had faked his death and being able to escape. He met Jim in the wood and they become friends. Jim asked Huck how he faked his death and Huck decides to tell Jim the truth. “Then I told him the whole thing, and he said I was smart”(32). Jim also told Huck the truth about why he runoff and it was because Miss Watson was trying to sell him off. Jim did not think about how risky it can be telling Huck the truth because Huck can turn him in: “I hear ole missus tell de widder she gwyne to sell me down to Orlean”(33). Also Huck was deciding rather to tell Jim the truth about the snake he place on Jim’s blanket. Huck is upholding information which shows how he is lying.

Though it is at times referred to as a classic, youth novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry

In HuckleBerry Finn there are two systems of belief, there is religion and superstition. The uneducated characters in this book, like Huck and Jim are skeptical about religion. Widow Douglas and Miss Watson are very educated about religion. Huck looks at the uselessness of Christianity, because prayers are never answered according to Huck. Many characters in Huck Finn have different interpretations of religion.

To begin, one of the main outcasts in this book was Huck himself. His mother passed away and his Pap was an alcoholic, "Yes, he 's got a father, but you can 't never find him these days. He used to lay drunk with the hogs in the tanyard"(pg 7). Miss Douglas, a widowed woman, took Huck in as her son and he lived with her, "The Widow Douglas she took me for her son"(pg 2). He was the only one in his group of friends that didn 't really have a well structured family life, "Here 's Huck Finn, he hain 't got no family; what you going to do 'bout him?"(pg 7). Widow Douglas tried to teach him to be a civilized human being and make him dress nice, but he preferred his ragged up clothes over something dressy any day. "She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn 't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up"(pg 1). Miss Watson teached him things about The Bible, or tried to anyways, but he had no interest in it, he didn 't care to go to Heaven, "She was going to live so as to go to the good place. Well, I couldn 't see no advantage of going where

According to the Merriam Webster dictionary the definition of moral is this, “of or relating to principles of right and wrong behavior.” By this definition, it can be shown that Huckleberry Finn became a moral person during the course of the story, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In the beginning of the story Huck had few morals, however, as the story unfolded readers were presented with evidence that serves to prove Huckleberry Finn did have morals.

In the Southern gothic novel To Kill A Mockingbird, the author Harper Lee utilizes many characters to display the overall theme of the novel. The overall theme of To Kill A Mockingbird is to take risks and not get cozy in something so predictable. A character that comes to mind to help relay this theme is Uncle Jack with his need to be the life of the party, leads others on the right path, and has a humble outlook. Uncle Jack was “The life of the party” he always was taking Jem and Scout on some sort of ludicrous adventure. Uncle Jack, a doctor that enjoys having fun, is stuck in this run down town called Maycomb.

Almost all novels depict morals or the author's view on any given subject. Although many people start to read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn thinking that it is a simple novel on a boy's childhood, they soon come to realize that the author, Mark Twain, expresses his opinions on multiple important, political issues. Twain touches on subjects such as slavery, money and greed, society and civilization, and freedom. From the time of its publication, Huckleberry Finn has been distinguished as a novel with prodigious political positions and messages. Throughout the novel, Twain continuously shows the hypocrisy and absurdity of civilized society.

In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a variety of people influence Huck’s ideology. From the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson’s religious rhetoric to Pap’s brutal, uncivilized manner, many contrasting ideas shape Huck’s belief system. However, among these people, Tom Sawyer holds the greatest impact over Huck’s actions and mentality because of Huck’s immense admiration for him. Huck’s initial encounters with Tom Sawyer establish Tom as a major component of the ideology Huck maintains throughout his journey. Despite Huck’s skepticism and confusion about Tom’s imaginative schemes, Huck regards Tom’s judgements as the truth and follows all of Tom’s plans.

Famous writer Oscar Wilde has said, “Society exists as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.” Throughout Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the protagonist has to deal with pressures of society in pre-Civil War America. Through adventures with a runaway slave named Jim, Huck battles between society and his own conscience. Due to Huck’s lack of proper upbringing, he is not as easily conformed to society as his best mate, Tom Sawyer.

In today’s world, organizations is one of the most tangled terms as it has a very dynamic environment which keeps on changing bit by bit and takes no time to take an undetermined turn and the outcomes of the various situations in a business are pretty uncertain. The issue here is that does studying organizations really matter to me ? I would like to state some facts about my perception on it. It determines various influences and impacts not only on individuals, but also on certain kinds of organizational groups in order to work in an effective environment. Studying organizations has become important as it has become a very useful equipment for overseeing the various kinds of behaviour of human and interpreting it. Large firms and multi-national corporations are hiring experts from their fields for handling different departments of the company. The work is getting divided into smaller branches such as human resource, finance, marketing and so many more. Gradually the importance of organizations is increasing as so many people are getting involved in it day by day in its creative world. Here I am going to discuss the value of studying organizations on the basis of the Toulmin model made by Stephen Toulmin, A British philosopher. In this model, “Toulmin emphasized a number of points that are by now similar, but still deserves adequate attention”

In Mark Twain 's satirical essay, “The Damned Human Race,” Twain critiques human beings by declaring that “The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.” The motif of cowardice and the cruelty of humanity is also present in another one of Twain’s most famous works: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Throughout this novel, Twain passionately decries the immorality and corruption of society through the employment of rhetoric and themes. He utilizes irony to draw attention to the hypocrisy and self-righteousness of many Christians and the detrimental effects this hypocrisy can have on society. He implements pathos to highlight the greed and

Mental health problems are believed to be the result of a combination of factors, including age, genetics and environmental factors. One of the most obvious, yet under-recognized factors in the development of major trends in mental health is the role of nutrition.(Associate Parliamentary & Health, 2008). Recent evidence suggests that good nutrition is essential for our mental health and that a number of mental health conditions may be influenced by dietary factors.. The body of evidence linking both diet and mental health is growing at a rapid pace ( Associate Parliamentary & Health, 2008). Recently, there have been a number of published studies identifying an inverse association between diet quality and the common mental disorders, namely depression and anxiety, in adults (Bellisle, 2004). Other prospective studies suggest that diet quality influences the risk for depressive illness in adults over time. The evidence indicates that food plays a contributing role in the development, management and prevention of specific mental health problems such as depression, schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Alzheimer’s disease ( Associate Parliamentary & Health, 2008).