Huckleberry Finn Quotes by Theme
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- Created on: 18-04-22 16:04
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- Huck Finn Quotes by Theme
- Racism and Prejudice
- "...and the country can rot for all me...I'll never vote again as long as I live"
- "do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n."
- "It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a ******"
- "I knowed he was white inside."
- "...when they told me there was a State in this country where they'd let that ****** vote, I drawed out."
- "...everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different"
- "There was a free ****** there from Ohio--a mulatter, most as white as a white man."
- "...You can't learn a ****** to argue. So I quit."
- "Didn't I say I was going to help steal the n*****?"
- "My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to it, "Let up on me -- it ain't too late, yet -- I'll paddle ashore at the first light and tell." I felt easy, and happy and light as a feather, right off. All my troubles was gone"
- Slavery
- "He ain't no slave; he's as free as any cretur that walks this earth!"
- American Dream
- "you want to be starting something fresh all the time."
- Social Class
- "It ain't right, and it ain't moral... we got to dig him out with the picks and let on it's case knives."
- "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry - set up straight"
- Education
- "I thought maybe you was trying to hocus me again. What's your real name now?"
- "You don't seem to know anything, somehow-perfect saphead"
- "I say orgies not because it is the common term but because it is the right term-"
- "To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin,That makes calamity of so long life."
- "Well, that's what I'm a saying; all kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out."
- "You're educated, too, they say—can read and write. You think you're better'n your father, now, don't you, because he can't? I'll take it out of you"
- Hypocrisy of a civilised society
- "He never done nothin' to me...it's only on account of the feud."
- "It ain't right, and it ain't moral... we got to dig him out with the picks and let on it's case knives."
- Says that Pap Finn's reform is the "holiest time on record."
- "It's real mysterious, and troublesome, and good, but I bet we can find a way that's twice as long."
- "The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guardian"
- "The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is- a mo"
- Violence
- "But by-and-by pap got too handy with his hick'ry, and I couldn't stand it. I was all over welts"
- "He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me..."
- Adventure
- "I wouldnt want to be nowhere else but here"
- "..they'll think I've been killed, and floated down the river..."
- "We went a-sliding down the river, and it did seem sogood to be free again and all by ourselves on the big river, and nobody to bother us"
- "There warn't no home like a raft, after all."
- "You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft"
- Wealth/Money
- "Ef you's got hairy arms en a hairy breas', it's a sign day you'd a-gwyne to be rich."
- "en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I'd wuth eight hund'd dllars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo."
- "Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time"
- "En what use is a half a chile? I wouldn' give a dern for a million un um."
- "I haint got no money..."
- Feeling trapped
- "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry—set up straight."
- "..they'll think I've been killed, and floated down the river..."
- "You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft."
- "you want to be starting something fresh all the time."
- "Miss Watson she kept pecking at me, and it got tiresome and lonesome"
- "Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't."
- Loyalty
- "en trash is what people dat puts first on de head er dey's fren' en makes me ashamed."
- "do on'y white gentleman dat ever kep' his promise to ole Jim"
- "it was Miss watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him"
- "I was ever so glad to see Jim. I warn't lonesome, now"
- "I tried to make out to myself that I warn't to blame, because I didn't run Jim off from his rightful owner;"
- Idealism vs Realism
- "I wish Tom Sawyer was here"
- "I felt so lonesome i most wished i was dead"
- "It's real mysterious, and troublesome, and good, but I bet we can find a way that's twice as long."
- "Human beings can be awfully cruel to one another."
- "Do you want to go to doing different things from what's in the books and get things all muddled up?"
- "but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people."
- "I said it looked to me like all the signs was about back luck."
- "I decided that all that stuff about genies was just more of Tom Sawyer's lies"
- "The judge he felt kind of sore. He said he reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shotgun, maybe, but he didn't know no other way"
- Religion
- "Alright then, I'll go to hell"
- "but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people."
- "Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie—I found that out."
- "...she was going to live so as to go to the good place"
- Lies and Deceit
- "There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth."
- "Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie—I found that out."
- "..they'll think I've been killed, and floated down the river..."
- "Sarah Mary Williams. Sarah's my first name. Some calls me Sarah, some calls me Mary"
- "Well, if ever I struck anything like it, I'm a n- word. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race"
- Racism and Prejudice
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