ENGL 2132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Breast, Hairball, List Of Religious Slurs
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Finn can"t tell the difference between the mystical and the spiritual because neither has truly been explained to him. Everyone just expects him to understand the ins and outs of religion because it"s simply the right thing . Twain uses huck to express his disdain for the belief of god as a wish granter. The widow tells huck that if he prays for something, he will get it. Tom sawyer says that the rules of his gang are by the book the same manner people say that behaving a certain way is by the bible. Tom is in a box and doesn"t have a grasp of the consequences of his actions. He is educated and believes he can outsmart most anyone. Twain uses this to allude to how many christians live by the virtue of knowing the bible and thinking that just because they go to church and do good things, they won"t be punished.
