ignoring Reality

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English

 

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Carol B

 

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May 8, 2013

 

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Through the relationships that Huck Finn experiences, Mark Twain suggests that expectations, stereotypes, and social hierarchy plays into people's preference to see the image of a person rather than the actual person. The first person we see through Huck's eye is the Widow Douglas. Through the Widow Douglas's treatment towards Huck, we see how societal expectations effect her perception of Huck...
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Through the Widow Douglas's treatment towards Huck, we see how societal expectations effect her perception of Huck. Twain portrays Huck as an independent, free willed boy whose natural habitat is outside rather than indoors. Unfortunately, the Widow Douglas, Huck's caretaker, ignores Huck's natural tendencies and focuses on making Huck into the ideal societal perception of what a child should be, an educated, Christian boy: The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me[?]and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out...
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