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A 5 page paper which examines the episodes described in Chapters 1 through 22, which contribute to Huck’s education, both formal and in life. No additional sources are used.
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- June 2001 -- properly! Mark Twains (a.k.a. Samuel L. Clemens) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn not only
chronicle a young waifs memorable journey along the mighty Mississippi River, but also details episodes of the boys education, both formally, through textbooks and the Bible, and in life, through
human experience. In Chapters 1 through 22, Huck describes his adventures, from which he becomes educated in ways that even his own fertile imagination could have never imagined.
Hucks mother is dead, and his "Pap" is an abusive alcoholic, so the Widow Douglas and her spinster sister, Miss Watson, take in the young boy, in hopes of "civilizing"
him. They are both God-fearing women who tried to instill in Huck the fire-and-brimstone teachings of Baptist Christianity. When the widow attempted to educate Huck on Moses, he
struggled to understand, but when he learned that Moses "had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didnt care no more about him; because I dont take no
stock in dead people" (29). When Huck took up smoking, the widow instructed him that smoking was wrong, saying it "wasnt clean," but felt that taking snuff was acceptable
"because she had done it herself" (29). Then, Miss Watson took her turn, introducing him to a spelling book, with the
tenacity of a drill sergeant. Finally, she relented after Huck grew restless, and but when she taught him about the "bad place" called hell, Hucks insatiable curiosity led him
to conclude that he would like to be there. Then, she described heaven as a place where "all a body would have to do there was to go around
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