Throughout the beginning chapters of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, you began to see the strong influence of the supporting character Miss Watson. Starting only the second page she becomes introduced as a new face to huckleberry. Miss Watson was the sister of the widow who cared for him and who he currently lived with. Even though she was new to him it took her no time to see his needs were high in the area of discipline, motherly care, and education and for her to begin caring for them along with the widow. While Huckleberry had a very troubled past in means of abuse and neglect from his father the effect of Miss Watson and the widow’s care and lifestyle vs. his fathers really brings out the negative past effects still haunting him in the present. Starting in the first chapter and continuing on through the sixth you can began see the repeating struggles of Huck’s past still haunting him. In a couple instances, one of which being chapter 1 page 3. He made his way up to his room when everyone was going off to bed only to sit in the dark and realize how lonely he was. Continuing on into chapter 6 page 24 he mentions his loneliness again, this time revealing that the inflicting past actions of his father by leaving him alone locked in the house for days at a time as a young child was what was causing this reoccurring feeling of loneliness. This explains Huck’s loneliness in the first chapter when he was really not alone at all. This shows you must pay close attention on into the next chapters because of author’s way of revealing importing past or present information.
You start to move away from the plot towards the end of your post. Perhaps it would be helpful to focus on one particular quote.
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