Huck Finn Reader Response 1: (1-6)

Education

A quote from the book that deals with my theme (Education) is “Well, I’ll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be better’n what he is. You let me catch u around that school again u hear? Your mother couldn’t read and she couldn’t write nuther, before she died. None of the family couldn’t, before they died. I can’t and here you’re swelling yourself up like this. I’m ain’t the man to stand it u here. In my own word this quote says that his father wants him to drop out of the school so he can be like the rest of his family that couldn’t read and write (Chapter 5, Page 4, Par7)

What being said is that his dad want him to drop out of school because his mom
who died could not read or write and his dad could not read or write and everyone
in his family could not read or write. So huck dad wants him to be like his family.
He does not want huck to be better than his own father.

What mark Twain was probably thinking was that to catch the reader's attention or eye, he would make it seem suspence and crazy for having the dad all of a sutten show up in the room. Then make it interesting when having the dad and the son argue about school.