How Does Huck Finn Relate To Society

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Tolerance is a guideline usually set by society. These guidelines are established through expectations, so if someone does something against these expectations, tolerance causes you to do something about it. In the novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, written by Mark Twain, Huck seems to find some of these social expectations, such as civilization, absurd. This leads to him constantly in a struggle between listening to society and listening to himself. Throughout the novel, he cannot get himself to fully agree with society because of the way the expectations affected some people in a negative way. Huck has troubles when it comes to deciding if he is in the right or wrong due to society’s expectations, and this happens because he doesn’t believe most of them. In chapter one, Huck explained how he didn’t like society’s idea of being civilized. He didn’t…show more content…
He wanted to make his own decisions, so it was at this point that he decided to join Tom Sawyer’s gang of robbers, which didn’t quite end up being a gang, so he quickly grew bored. It shown through this chapter through the way he acts that he finds these societal expectations absurd. He never really agreed with Miss Watson or Widow Douglas, and he didn’t under any circumstances want to be adopted by Widow Douglas, because that meant he would succumb to civilization. Throughout his time with his father in the cabin, he talked about how he liked being there because he didn’t have to do any of the things Widow Douglas made him do, so he stayed until he got bored with being locked in. Later on in the story,

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