Traits of violence have always been inducted into Mark Twain’s stories. In The Adventure of Huckleberry and Finn, Huck’s history with his pap is an important cause of violence in throughout the story. Huck’s fear for his dad is uncommon, especially when he sleeps with a loaded shotgun aimed at his passed-out father. Huck even tries to make a scene to fake his own death by conning others in town that the blood of a dead pig he killed was his own blood.
Because of Huck’s pap, it contributes to why Huck may need to hang on to violence for a sense of protection. His adventure has been leading him into the heart of violence. In Huckleberry Finn, Huck lays a dead rattlesnake in Jim’s blanket as a joke, which in fact leads a real rattle snake biting Jim on the foot. While Huck’s intention was to find a way to entertain and to escape boredom, his action became violent, putting Jim’s life in jeopardy.
One of another trait of violence in the story is the feud between the Shepherdson and Grangerford. Beginning of the story, Twain portrays the treatment of violence toward animals as entertainment as to prepare readers for a similar response to human murder between the Grangerford and Shepherdson. This terrible violence between this feud is uncommon, because the two families basically killed each other for no reason at all.
