Blog Post 2: Huck Finn Response (Ch. 13 - Ch. 17)

In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck, the protagonist, Huck, is greatly influenced by four people: Widow Douglas, Tom Sawyer, Pap, and Jim.

Widow Douglas directly influences Huck by getting him to go to school. She also indirectly influences Huck by teaching him manners, respect and to be a good person. On page eleven Huck says “ I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write, just a little, and would say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don’t reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever.”

Tom Sawyer directly influences Huck by he gets Huck to join the gang and got him to sneak out of the house. Tom also indirectly influences Huck because Huck looks up to him and he has good and bad effects on him. On page three Huck says “Then I slipped down to the ground and crawled in amongst the trees, an sure enough there was Tom Sawyer waiting for me.”

Pap directly influences Huck by telling him not to go to school anymore. And Pap does not really indirectly influence Huck because he does not mean that much to Huck. On page fifteen Pap tells Huck “You lemme catch you fooling around that school again, you hear?”

Jim directly influences Huck by getting him to believe in good and bad luck. On pare fourteen Jim says “You wants to keep ‘way fum de water as much as you kin, en don’t run no rest, ‘kase it’s down in de bills dat you’s gwyne to get hung.”

Without these key influences in his life, Huck would be a very different person.