Monday, December 2, 2013
The End
On the last page of the book, Huck decides that he does not want to live with Aunt Sally and become civilized. Here is the passage "But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and
sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before" (185 online text). This confuses me because at the beginning of the book Huck wanted a family, and even in the middle he says he would fit in perfectly with the Grangerfords. Furthermore the whole novel is about being uncivilized and how Huck hates it and wants to live a normal life with some adventure. I guess in a sense the whole book being about living an uncivil life and the end Huck refusing to settle and become civilized. But I believed that there were times when Huck wished to be back with Miss Watson.
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I really agree what you are saying here, since Huck does not wish to be civilized, however still wants a family. I think that Tom and Jim function as Huck's family in the final chapters of the novel.
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