After examining all the tweets with #cantprayalie, you realize all the comments are about religion, and more important related to Huck. Very few tweets relate this hashtag with devotion and dogmatism. Reading the book, you get the gist of how Huck isn’t really the religious type. When Huck started living with Widow Douglas, she tells him the story of Moses. “After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses… I didn’t care no more about him, because I don’t take no stock in dead people” Huck displays no regard for someone who is dead and thus this pretty much sums up what Huck thinks about religion.
As the reading continues, you start to notice a pattern. The educated and the “sivilized” are the one practice religion, while the illiterates believe in superstition. To some extent, Huck not believing in any higher power is justifiable. Someone who grew up without a mother and a father who disappeared, only to return and be abusive, he stopped believing in others. Huck believes he doesn’t need anyone to make his life better or worse, he himself is enough for that.
In the future need to start focusing on whether or not Huck’s thoughts on religion change or not. And if they do, what or who causing them to change. Mark twain’s perception of religion is shown through his characters, and Mark twain didn’t believe in religion.
