Chapters 7-11

In the second section of the reading for "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", it becomes apparent that a new symbol emerging is education. While many foreshadowed that the main focus of this book would be on education, the trye facts of the prediction are just now beginning to emerge. Some would consider education to be graduation high school and going on to pursue a fancy degree from an extremely expensive college. To others, education is learning about how to survive. This is exactly what Huckleberry did when he decided to create a better life for himself by escaping his father's drunken, angry tirades. Although he had just begun his schooling (referring to the typical idea of reading, math, etc.), it is important that he uses his common sense and knowledge of the land to survive. When planning the escape, Huckleberry fakes his own death; later on it is revealed that he also knows how to cook and find food in nature. He knew how to kill a snake that could have potentially killed him. Despite the fact that thus far his education has been slim to none, it is slowly being foreshadowed that Huckleberry has enough common sense to survive.