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Superstition In Huckleberry Finn Book Report

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Jim uses superstition as a way to understand and explain why things happen. When Huck finds Pap’s footprints he seeks Jim out in search of answers. Jim uses his magic hairball to predict the future. He informs him on what the future holds, telling Huck that there are two women one rich and one poor standing by him and next to his father there are two angels a good and a bad one (Twain 13). Jim uses the hairball to prove that the footprints found in the snow belong to Huck’s dad. Jim’s superstition also comes out when Huck and Jim are on the island talking about bad luck and Jim tells Huck, “It was the worst kind of bad luck in the world to touch snake skin” (39). In this passage Jim is using the snakeskin to explain why bad things happen.

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