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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Why Huckleberry Finn Rejects Civilization

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Why should Huck Finn like civilization? Civilization is on land. All that the land and civilization has brought him was bad things. For example his father, Pap, beat him with a hickory stick when he was drunk: " But by and by pap got too handy with his hick'ry, and I couldn't stand it. I was welts all over"(page # 189)...
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I was welts all over"(page # 189). Another thing Pap did to Huck was he locked him in the cabin, sometimes days at a time. "He got to going away so much, too, and locking me in. Once he locked me in and was gone three days."(page # 193). No wonder Huck hated the land and civilization! Many of Huck's bad experiences are on land and involve civilization...
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