Qing Rou Deng. Posting 4. Adventures of Huckleberry Fin

In the parts about where the fake duke and king accompany Huck and Jim, even though they seem comical it is evident that they pose threats to Huck and Jim. Is evident that the duke and the king are terrible people because they lied about being royalty and they committed the king committed his first scandal, after they met, at the religious meeting. “­­­­He [king] told them he was a pirate—been a pirate for thirty years out in the Indian Ocean—and his crew was thinned out considerable last spring in a fight, and he was home now to take out some fresh men, and thanks to goodness he’s been robbed last night and pt ashore off of a steamboat without a cent, he was glad of it; it was the blessedest thing that ever happened to him, because he was a changed man now, and happy for the first time in his life; and, poor he was, he was going to starring right off and work his way back to the Indian Ocean, and pt in the rest of his life trying to turn the pirates into the true path…. (181)” In this the fake king collected eighty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents. I wonder why Huck and Jim still let them tag along. I think it is easy enough to abandon, and that is okay to abandon them because they are bad people.

Throughout the story everyone Huck and Jim meets seems to have bad morals. For example the first person, Huck’s dad, would give anything up for his drinking problem. And currently there is the fake duke and king. But I think the Grangers and the Sheperdsons were the worst of them all not because they had bad morals but because of their prejudice which resulted in the demise of both families. I guess this sort of shows the characteristic of America back during Mr. Twain’s time. A part of the story that really shows these traits are during Huck’s visit to the circus when the audience is entertained by a dunk man who was in danger. But I wonder why Mr. Twain only showed the bad characteristics and not the good ones because there were certainly a lot of them. The part of the circus proves again what good morals Huck has because he did not find the man who is in danger funny.