Superstition in Huckleberry Finn

Superstition If you step on a crack, you willing break your mamma back, keep cats away from babies because they suck the breath of the child, and cover my heart and hope to die, cut my throat if I tell a lie ar examples of some intolerances that people believe in. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, fanaticism is a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation. In The Adventures of huckabackleberry Finn, Jim and huck use and believe in many superstitious notions.There are many examples from the book that launch this in the characters. Most of the bigotrys are ridiculous, notwithstanding some actually make a little sense. In the book, The Adventures of huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, one of the main themes he uses in this book is superstition and two main characters that acquire attitudes that are different and similar towards superstition is Huck and Jim. Huck at the beginning of the s tory wasnt superstitious at all. He thought Jim was crazy for being superstition. Huck infirm believes in superstition but later in the story his views changes.Huck killed a rattlesnake and dictated it on the foot of Jim blanket, Jim see the executed rattlesnake with his mater and told Huck that this was bad luck. Huck later says I made up mmind I wouldnt ever take a-holt of a snake-skin once more with my hands, now that I see what had come of it(pg53) this mean that he do not really know all the superstitious things because he placed the dead rattlesnake at the foot of Jims blanket, just joking around, and he found out what happens as the effect of the joke.During this time Huck become a firm believer in superstition. Huck admirers his sponsor Tom use superstition to help Jim escape by coitus Jims keeper, Nat, who believes witches are haunting him, that the only cure is to bake a witch pie and give it to Jim. In the witch pie there were things that were breathing out to help Jim escape. Next Jim views about superstition are different than Huck. Unlike Huck, he is a very superstitious man and employ it for almost everything in life. He also does not joke around with superstition, unlike Huck.Jim uses superstition to fill the things he didnt learn or understood in life. Jim uses superstition for a sign for all things that happen in nature. peerless example of this is, Some young birds come along, flying a yard or two at a time and lighting. Jim said it was a sign that it was going to rain(pg45). Jim looks at the birds and can tell that it is going to rain. Since there were no weather devices in the eighteen hundreds, signs like these were used to predict the weather.Jim view superstition by his faith by thinking the hairball is a magic spirit. Superstition kind of motivates him to escape to exemption because he found out that he was going to be sell for a high price because he believes if your chest is hairy you are worth a lot of money which encoura ges him to escape his owner, Ms. Watson. Although Huck and Jim have different views on superstition, they also have views that are the same. They both do things that would stop the superstition from bringing bad luck.For example during the rattlesnake episode, Jim tells Huck to chop off the snakes head, then skin the body of the snake and indue it around his wrist, so he would not be cursed. They become ill-advised when anything remotely superstitious happens to them. They also think when something bad happens to them it is the effect of the superstitious act that they did. In conclusion, in Mark Twains novel, The Adventures Huckleberry Finn, he uses superstition to show many points. Mark Twain uses superstition to show contrast in the midst of an organized, Christian religion and believing in and superstitions and ones own beliefs.As Huckleberry Finn and Jim are hurled back and forth between these two different faiths, the reader gets a keen idea of the beliefs and lifestyles pe ople followed sprightliness in this story. He uses it to serves calculate the plot at several key junctions. For example, spilling salt leads to Pa reverting for Huck. Overall, superstition is used in The Adventures Huckleberry Finn as a way to allot Mark Twains own opinion on religion and refined living with his readers and help them to understand the good and bad of both ways of living.