Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn

Discussion Questions

#1
The irony about it is that usually, parents want their children to have a better life than they had, and to become wealthier and richer, more educated etc. Huck's father doesn't care about that.

#2
The society does not want to interfere with a family's rules. It is not like they don't want to have Huck a better life, they just don't want to break a family's traditions.

#3
With his father, he has an easy, free life. He doesn't have to go to school and to follow rules. It is a sort of freedom, which Huck really likes but is not actually good for you. Education (going to school) is hard but definitely good for you.

#4
He says: "Why does the government let a black person become something?!"
But: He neither has money nor a job nor is he living properly (he drinks a lot of alcohol). So why does he presume to have the right to live better than everyone else?