Education-P5

= = =Education= CO’Toole JCrosson

Huck

 * Huck attains his education through personal experiences and conscience decisions.
 * Huck does not value his formal education and instead prefers to make assumptions of things that he witnesses first hand.
 * As Huck matures throughout the novel he begins to place more value in his education.

Tom
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 * One could refer to Tom as more "book smart" than Huck, but he his intelligence becomes questionable when he uses it for his rebellious schemes.
 * Tom, like Huck, also does not value his formal education, but rather prefers to gain his knowledge through reading romance and adventure novels.
 * Tom acts as the Foil of Huck, using fictional stories to make decisions in real life situations whereas Huck uses his knowledge aquired through real life experiences to make decisions.
 * Even though Tom was raised with a formal education, he acts out on his boyish whims, whereas Huck tends to act more reserved and straight forward. This gives the reader the idea that Tom does not take is education as seriously and tends to use it only for his selfish gain by using it at others expenses.

Jim
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 * Jim had no formal education, but instead educated himself only in the areas that would prove most critical for his survival as a black man and as a slave.
 * Jim, a black slave, was never given the opportunity to receive a formal education such as Huck's and Tom's.
 * He developed a bitterness towards their "civilized" education because he,having received none himself, was left to his lonesome to discover and determine what was both morally correct and acceptable in his tightly bound world.
 * He had to develop his education through what one would refer to today as "street smarts."