The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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I also wondered how a hair ball became a way to read fortunes. I thought it was interesting when they decided the snake skin represented good luck and bad luck. They received good luck by finding the eight dollars in the pocket of an overcoat, which was a considerable find for the time. Later the bad came, when Huck ran out of tobacco. He ran into a rattle snake on his way, which he kills and leaves near Jim's blanket. At night Jim goes to his blanket to sleep, and the snake's mate bites him on the heel. Jim has Huck cut the snake's head off, then skinned it, and roast a piece of the dead snake. They tie the rattles around Jim's wrist to help him. To me this superstition just seems like a way for someone to take their anger out on the snake that bit them. Afterwards Huck decides he would never grab a snake again with his bare hands.
Much of the plot throughout revolves around intolerance between different groups. This leads to much of the antagonism which makes the book ...

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it in good taste.
Mark Twain expresses his high regard for nature through different rhetorical strategies. Twain typically is sarcastic, and cynical, but when he starts describing the Mississippi, he changes to a lighter, flowing tone. His change in tone shows that he thinks it is important, and that he recognizes it's beauty. On page 88 Twain shows his displeasure with people's effect on nature when he writes about the steamboat that, " now and then would belch a whole world of sparks up out of her chimbleys." Soon after Twain writes, "The nice breeze springs up and comes fanning you from over there as a servant to a king in his court, and everything (smiles) in the sun." The ...

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