Religion-P5

=Religion=
 * Miss Watson is attempting to teach Huckleberry Finn lessons from the bible. Huckleberry Finn just ignores what she says and pretends to listen to her. This is Mark Twains of way of expressing his beliefs that religion isn't very important in Hucks life.
 * The only religion in Huck's life, is the breif lessons that Miss Watson and the widow teach him
 * Jim's religion is mainly superstitious. This could be Twain expressing his tolerance for other ideas on religion such as superstition by having him as a character that is a slave but is treated well anyways.
 * Jim and Huck believe the worst superstition of them all is to touch a rattlesnakes skin with your own bare hands.
 * a result of this horrible occurance would cause the culprit much bad luck
 * In Jims religion of superstition, the "God" he looks up to is a hair-ball, the size of a fist, that Jim had taken from an ox's stomach.
 * This is Jim's religion becuase it is the set of morals he follows, he abides by rules derived from superstition.
 * One way that religion is defined is through your actions. Huckleberry Finn's Father shows that his relgion is he beleives that he can do whatever he wants through his actions at home.
 * Pap keeps Huck because he can, it wouldnt be benificial to his lifestyle to have a son but he fights for custody anyways just becasue he can.
 * Pap has no religous background and therefore he is his own God and follows his own ideas and morals as his religion