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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
There were a few things I found that made The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the piece of American literature that it is. One of them was the use of superstition used in the book. Another was the amount of racism and intolerance. Much of the book focused around those two elements, and the cultur ....
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.... Huck ran out of tobacco. He ran into a rattle snake on his way, which he kills and leaves near Jim's blanket. At night Jim goes to his blanket to sleep, and the snake's mate bites him on the heel. Jim has Huck cut the snake's head off, then skinned it, and roast a piece of the dead snake. They tie the rattles around Jim's wrist to help him. To me this superstition just seems like a way for someone to take their anger out on the snake that bit them. Afterwards Huck decides he would never grab a snake again with his bare hands.
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