Moreover, Huck’s Father, Pap, is enslaved by the addiction that is alcohol. Pap is continuously intoxicated or hung-over within the novel. His addiction leads him to kidnap Huck in an attempt to steal his own son’s money. Additionally, the alcohol blinds him from his detrimental actions such as him preventing Huck from achieving an education or beating Huck for no given reason. For Huck’s father, alcohol has developed into a priority that surpassed that even food and other necessities. Huck’s father takes his need to feed the addiction to hurtful levels. He locks Huck in a cabin while he obtains whiskey and gets drunk. And Huck even has to get money to give to Pap to prevent him from beating him. In Chapter 6, Pap’s unethical behavior is pontificated when Huck states, “Every little while he locked me in and went down to the store, three miles, to the ferry, and traded fish and game for whisky, and fetched it home and got drunk and had a good time… old man made me go to the skiff and fetch the things he had got.” (Twain, 32).…show more content… Furthermore, Pap is also enslaved by racism like the majority of whites within this text as well as the Antebellum Period in the history of the United States and is the likely source of most of Huck’s unethical behaviors and racist ideals. This is shown by far the most in Chapter 6 when Pap states, “…It was 'lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn't too drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a State in this country where they'd let that nigger vote, I drawed