River/Shore Project Topic: Education/Learning

1. River/Shore ProjectTopic: Education/Learning Brooke Adams Anna Farello Analise Fernandez Megan Freiburger Hannah Garza Audrey Hill Jordan Mullins

2. Uni-T Twain’s portrayal of Huck’s educational journey shows that civilization is not always the best teacher.

3. Thesis Statement Although society plagues Huck’s conscience with false ideas of morality, the river engenders an authentic sense of right and wrong, which leads to Huck abandoning the customs of the Southern shore.

4. Significant Differences

5. Example #1 “I tried to make out to myself that I warn’t to blame, because I didn’t run Jim off from his rightful owner; but it warn’t no use, conscience up and says, every time ‘But you knowed he was running for his freedom, add you could ‘a’ paddled ashore and told somebody….What did that [Miss Watson] do to you that you could treat her so mean? Why, she tried to learn you her book, she tried to learn you your manners, she tried to be good to you every way she knowed how. That’s what she done’” (92).

6. Example #2 • “I see it warn’t no use wasting words—you can’t learn a nigger to argue”(85). • “‘It ain’t no use to try to learn you anything, Huck’”(238).

7. Quote #3 “ Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on; s’pose you’d ‘a’ done right and give Jim up, would you felt better than what you do now? No, says I, I’d feel bad– I’d feel just the same way I do now. Well, then, says I what’s the use you learning to do right when it’s troublesome to do right and it ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

8. Thesis Statement Although society plagues Huck’s conscience with false ideas of morality, the river engenders an authentic sense of right and wrong, which leads to Huck abandoning the customs of the Southern shore.