Civilized+Society-P5

D. Atwood, L. Navarro, A. Varma >
 * In the beginning of the novel, Pap gains the rights to Huck for he is Huck's natural father, even though this decision puts Huck's welfare in jeopardy.
 * This can be seen as a relation to how whites had the "right" to hold Africans slaves without consideration to their own welfare.
 * No matter how "civilized" a society can be, one that holds slaves cannot be and is not just.
 * The entire trip is an exclusion from a civilized society.
 * The adults he meets, who are supposed to be role models for him, are not civilized themselves.
 * The Widow tries to teach Huck how to become civilized and what is proper and improper.
 * “The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar hogshead again, and was free and satisfied,” (Ch.I).
 * Huck doesn’t want to become civilized, but instead to just be comfortable and run around in old clothes.
 * His Pap was against Huck becoming civilized.
 * “Ain’t you a sweet-scented dandy, though? A bed; and bedclothes; and a look’n’ glass; and a piece of carpet on the floor—and your own father got to sleep with the hogs in the tanyard… I bet I’ll take some o’ these frills out o’ your airs—they say you’re rich,” (Ch.X).
 * His Pap felt that being civilized was for rich people and he didn’t want Huck to be raised that way when his father just lives in a small cabin
 * At the very end Aunt Sally is going to try to civilize Huck.
 * “Aunt Sally is going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before,” (Ch. XLIII).
 * Huck knows that it will be just like before. Aunt Sally will try to civilize him, but Huck just would continue with his old ways.