Huckleberry Finn Writing Prompts

I read the book Huckleberry Finn in March and this is my report that I did for it. There are about 4 different writing prompts in it so if it suddenly goes onto a new topic from the book that's why. Hope you like it!
Violence and greed are motives in Huckleberry Finn and are of great importance in the book. The two greediest characters were the Duke, and the King. They told Huck and Jim that they were a Duke and a King and made them treat them like royalty. They had to give up their beds and sleep on the floor. They came across these two men when they saw them running away from a group of people and let them stay on their raft for safety. Huckleberry Finn knew that they were frauds all along but didn’t say anything because he didn’t want to cause problems on the raft. They would go from town to town tricking people to get their money.
The first thing they did was rehearsed a play, Romeo and Juliet, and tried to make it good and everything but when they put it on for the town everyone booed and didn’t like it. After this attempt failed, they started putting on stupid shows and scamming people for their money. In one of their shows they got the Duke naked and had him run around the stage and do some kind of dance and they put this show on for 3 days. They attracted customers by saying it was men only show which would hopefully attract a lot of guys that thought they were going to get to see naked girls. It did and they only did it two nights, the third night, they knew they would have food thrown at them so pushed off on the raft. Another thing the king did was pretend to be a poor old man and told them about all of the things he’d been through but really he hadn’t. He said he had been the king of France but then came to the U.S. In the end it all came back to haunt them because one town caught them and put tar and feathers on them and then threw them in the lake.
Violence was also a big part of the book and made it more interesting to read because you never knew when someone was going to get hurt or die. In one part, Huck stayed with this one family who was in a feud with another and would shoot each other whenever they crossed paths. It has been going on for a long time and no one really know what it’s about. Even the kid that was Huck’s age was involved in the feud and got killed in the end. The daughter of one of the families was going to marry a boy from the other so they went out to stop them from marrying and ended up getting in a big fight that killed a lot of the other family members too. In another part of the book there was a ship wreck and Jim and Huck stopped to get treasures out of the captain’s room. When they got aboard there was a bunch of robbers on board that were getting ready to shoot a man. When they found out that Jim and Huck were aboard they tried to catch them to kill so they wouldn’t get the treasures. They couldn’t find the raft so they were stuck on the ship with the robbers with no escape. The raft ended up being at the other end of the ship and they got away safely.
I am not at all surprised that religious people would maybe think that Huckleberry Finn is a bad book and should be banned. For one thing, although it doesn’t have much to do with it, Mark Twain was an atheist so he sometimes made it sound like god wasn’t real in the book and they might not want kids reading this. In the very beginning, the lady he was staying with was trying to make him civilized and religious and he wanted to be with Tom Sawyer in hell. He never told the lady this but Mark Twain wrote about him thinking it all the time. Some parents might not want their kids reading about a boy that wants to go to hell. In another part of and the story, Jim got captured and Huck thought he would start being a good boy because he decided he didn’t want to go to hell but ended up deciding that saving Jim was more important than going to hell.
The whole time in the book, Huck was doing things that many would consider unholy. He was always rebellious and didn’t obey the people in charge of him. He felt bad about not turning Jim in but couldn’t bring himself to do it. Although now it would be good for him to not turn someone in for slavery, back when this book took place it was considered a sin to smuggle away someone’s slave. I think Mark Twain put this part of the book in to show that friendship is more important than supposedly going to hell.
I would defend Huckleberry Finn against being a racist novel because Mark Twain only used the word nigger because it was back when slavery was going on and calling someone that was just like calling them African American. Even Jim (who was black) would call other slaves the word and even himself one. It didn’t even seem like it was an insult then. The bad treatment of slaves in the book was also justifiable to write about because that was the reality back then. When they were trying to get Jim out of the shed he was being held in, Jim said that they knew better than him because they were white. This came up when Tom Sawyer was complicating thins trying to get him out and Jim questioned it and Tom Sawyer tried to explain it so he said they knew better. Slaves didn’t think that whites were better than them during the Civil War obviously so I don’t think he actually thought white’s were better but they were his friends. It also might be justifiable because Mark Twain was raised in the south.
All in all I think it was a great book and that it shouldn’t be banned and kids should be aloud to read it. It has good life lessons and is a suspenseful book that I enjoyed reading. One life lesson it gives is that you should never scam people for their money because your deeds will come back to haunt you. I learned this because although the Duke and King made a lot of money with their ridiculous shows, they ended up regretting their deeds in the end.