Superstitious Behaviors of Huckleberry Finn

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Daniel Milligan

Psychology

10/17/14

Superstitions Behaviors of Huckleberry Finn

The component of superstition the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is identified with the ideas of hope and fear. Jim is a slave of the south with no formal educating. Commonly, an individual needs to have hope. Hope makes one get up in the morning and travel through existence with more ease. Making or after superstitions is a trust that great things will come later on, particularly if Jim feels that his present way of life is bad. He trusts that one day he will be free. Huckleberry Finn likewise needs Hope. Miss Watson tries to ingrain religion in Huck, however he sticks to what he knows of and lives through his methods for fortunes and superstition. Apprehension is an alternate impact on the two. They are both running frightened. They are running from the unfilled lives they existed. Jim fears he will be gotten and be sold from his past living arrangement to New Orleans.

He knows Miss Watson treats him really well and reasons for alarm he we will be dealt with more regrettable somewhere else. Huck fears his self centered, alcoholic father who just needs him for his cash. In the event that he got he would either need to live with his father or once again with the dowager and Miss Watson whose ways of life were totally not the same as what he was usual to.

In chapter 10, Jim and Huck are examining how Jim says that it is bad fortunes to touch a snakeskin with your hands. Huck doesn't trust him on the grounds that they discovered cash in a jacket they took from a house that was tilted on its side from the surge. Jim advises Huck that it's coming to him.