An instance of this occurs when Widow Douglas is discussing Moses with Huck. ... Twain satirizes this group through Huck's statement "Here she was a bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone" (Twain 15). ... One of the main ills Twain illustrates is just how low some people will go. ... He says that "every woman, nearly, went up to the girls, without saying a word, and kissed them, solemn , on the forehead, and then put their hand on their head, and looked up towards the sky, with the tears running down, and then busted out and went off sobbing a...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

For example, Huck scoffs at the formal religious customs and loses interest in learning about Moses once he learns that Moses lived a long time ago and thus does not directly come into contact with his own life. ... Huck relays, "I asked her if Tom Sawyer would go [to the good place], and, she said, not by a considerable sight. ... In about a minute everybody was saying it; so away then went, mad and yelling, and snatching down every clothes-line they come to, to do the hanging with. (109)" In this example of runaway destructive collective consciousness, the mass becomes so caught up in the ac...

• Word Count: 2294
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Well, I know what I's gwyne to do: I's gwyne to set down here and lisen tell I hears it ag'in"(5). ... When the angry mob goes to lynch Sherburn, he takes a stand on his porch. ... He goes on to say that they failed to bring a "true man", someone to follow who is brave and has a purpose. ... Twain is making fun of the revengeful and down right idiotic nature of the south and of mankind in general. ... No one questions the society in which they live and just goes along living everyday life. ...

• Word Count: 1565
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Well, I know what I's gwyne to do: I's gwyne to set down here and lisen tell I hears it ag'in"(5). ... The feud had been going on so long that the people did not even know why they were fighting for. ... Also, when he was being taught about the history of religion, he learned that Moses had been dead for a long time, so he decides right there that he does not need to worry about it. ...

• Word Count: 2013
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He saw that his aunt perfectly fitted their society, "The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time, when you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them After super she got out her book and learned me about Moses and Bulrushers;" (pg. 2). ... Watson in the beginning as a character that keeps herself from reasoning and goes along with everything that other people tell her. ... On the other hand Huck appears as someone who does not ca...

• Word Count: 2477
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School