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Mark Twain's View of Religion in Huck Finn
Summary: Essay describes Mark Twain's view on religion in his novel "The Adventures Huckleberry Finn."
Through the famous novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author Mark Twain criticizes the many religions presented in the novel. He criticizes the overly emotional people of the revival meetings and the hypocrisy of the Christian believers. However, he also makes evident of Jim's preposterous superstition, but of the two religion, it is also clear that Twain admires Jim's religion more then Christianity. And whether or not, Twain is criticizing the Christians or the superstition of the black slaves, he does not forget to remind his readers of the good morals of Christianity and the practicality of the slaves? superstition.
Twain uses the revival meeting of chapter twenty to criticize the overly emotional and the gullible believers who are swindled and blind because of their faith. When King attends the meeting and claims that he is a newly converted pirate looking for benefactors, everyone at he meeting...
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