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Society’s laws & values can conflict with personal morals & values

Society’s laws & values can conflict with personal morals & values. Topics: Jim, Huck, freedom, nature Huck struggles with whether to turn Jim in Jim wants to be free from slavery Huck wants to be free from Widow & Miss Watson (“sivilize”). Freedom means different things to different people.

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Society’s laws & values can conflict with personal morals & values

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  1. Society’s laws & values can conflict with personal morals & values • Topics: Jim, Huck, freedom, nature • Huck struggles with whether to turn Jim in • Jim wants to be free from slavery • Huck wants to be free from Widow & Miss Watson (“sivilize”)

  2. Freedom means different things to different people. • Topic: Jim, Huck, freedom, nature • Huck wants to make his own decisions • Huck wants to be free from abuse • Jim wants to be free from slavery • Jim and Huck want to be free to choose their friends

  3. People tend to behave irrationally and even cruelly in large groups. • Topic: nature, religion • Grangerfords/Shepherdsons – feud, and church/hypocrisy • townspeople talk up duke & king’s show so others must suffer through it • mob goes after Col. Sherburn • mob tries to bust king and duke • king and duke are tarred and feathered • mob chases Tom, Jim, Huck

  4. Belief in superstition is often strong in people who have little control over their own lives. • Topic: superstition, Jim • Jim, and other slaves and Huck – superstitious, lack of control • Widow Douglas & Miss Watson – not superstitious – control over lives

  5. Society’s laws & values need to be examined, questioned and changed if necessary. • Topic: freedom, education, nature, Huck, Jim, religion • slavery • book knowledge overvalued • hypocrisy, greed, brutality, violence, racism, cowardice

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