Superstition in Huck Finn
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In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, there is a lot of superstition. Some examples of superstition in the novel are Huck killing a spider which is bad luck, the hair-ball used to tell fortunes, and the rattle-snake skin Huck touches that brings Huck and Jim good and bad luck. Superstition plays an important role in the novel Huck Finn. In Chapter one Huck sees a spider crawling up his shoulder, so he flipped it off and it went into the flame of the candle. Before he could get it out, it was already shriveled up....
He took the rattles off and tied them to Jim wrist. Jim said it would help him. Huck says "I made up my mind I wouldn"t ever take a-holt of a snake-skin again with my hands, now that I see what had come of it." Twain 52.
He took the rattles off and tied them to Jim wrist. Jim said it would help him. Huck says "I made up my mind I wouldn"t ever take a-holt of a snake-skin again with my hands, now that I see what had come of it." Twain 52.
As one can see Superstition plays an important role in the novel Huck Finn. Huck killing the spider which is bad luck, the hair-ball that tells fortunes, and the rattle-snake skin that Huck touched are examples that brought bad luck to Huck and Jim in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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