Reader Response 1: Huck Finn (1 - 6)

Relationship to Parents

"Here's Huck Finn, he hain't got no family- what you going to do 'bout him?" "Well, he's got a father?"says Tom Sawyer. "Yes, he's got a father, but you can't never find him, these days. He used to lay drunk with the hogs in the tanyard, but he hain't been seen in these parts for a year or more." ( ch.2,p.6,par4). Here's Huck Finn he don't have a family, what are you going to do about him? Well don't he have a father? says Tom Sawyer. Ys, he has a father, but nobody can ever find him. He used to lay drunk with the hogs in the tanyard, but nobody has seen him here for a year or more.

What i think about the quote and this theme is that Huck dosn't claim his father because he was never there for him when he needed him and he might be ashamed of his father becuase he's a drunk and thats what everybody see's him as. I can't relate this to my own life becuase I have a good relationship with my parents.

What i think Mark Twain thinks about this quote and is that not all kids get along with their parents.They don't along with their parents because they're not there for them and so they dont't care weather they die or not. I think maybe Mark Twain didnt get along with his mother or father so he maybe wrote that quote the way he did.