Why Is Pap Important In Huck Finn

1) In the meritorious novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain, there was a character by the name of Pap, his name was never mentioned in the actual book but he was a major influence on the events that would take place in Huck’s life, such as the reason he would able to have his adventure in the first place and was a key figure in what was what not to be when someone were to be a father or mother. 2) Huck’s father, Pap, was extremely jealous of those who were supposedly greater than him when it came to social and economic power, and he was the kind of man who did not want others to surpass him, for example, when Pap began ridiculing Huck for getting an education, Pap was the kind of person, who, under extreme situations where he wants to feel superior to others he would

6) In this dialog we get from Pap, it is clear that his major problem with the government currently, is that he cannot just gain custody of his child without a trial, simply because he was constantly beating the child and abusing him mentally and teaching him absolutely nothing intentionally. 7) He does not like how even after all of the trouble he goes through in order to feed and raise Huck, which was probably none to be completely honest, he has to deal with the government threatening his potential money maker for when he gets older, hence the reason he talks about how he cannot wait for Huck to be the one getting food and making money so he can be the one laying around doing nothing. 8) In conclusion, Pap from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a man whose greed and jealousy was bottomless and was clearly the saturated version of what Mark Twain saw as the typical drunkard who could abuse the United States’ law system while also being able to complain about it at the same time, which would eventually lead into many others starting to come to realizations about their friendly neighborhood drunkards and their