Superstition in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn


Grade Level: 10
Date Created: November 21, 1996
Grade Received: 94%
Written by:
Erica
Erica.Hankinson@juno.com


In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, there is
a lot of superstition. Some examples of superstition in the novel are Huck
killing a spider which is bad luck, the hair-ball used to tell fortunes, and
the rattle-snake skin Huck touches that brings Huck and Jim good and bad luck.
Superstition plays an important role in the novel Huck Finn.
In Chapter one Huck sees a spider crawling up his shoulder, so he
flipped it off and it went into the flame of the candle. Before he could get it
out, it was already shriveled up. Huck didn't need anyone to tell him that it
was an bad sign and would give him bad luck. Huck got scared and shook his
clothes off, and turned in his tracks three times. He then tied a lock of his
hair with a thread to keep the......

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