These next couple chapters are all about Huck and his time spent with his father, also known as Pap. He doesn't have a great relationship with his father because of how Pap is always drunk. Pap comes into Huck's room and beats him for going to school, because he thinks Huck is trying to be better than him and his mom. Pap is not a good father and that's why he is not in care of Huck
Pap steals Huck away from the Widow's house and takes him out into the woods with him and there they live off the land, and survive in the wilderness. One night, Huck is locked in the shack while Pap goes into town to buy whiskey and Pap comes back, highly intoxicated, and starts ranting about the government that they have at this time. And Pap goes on to complain about when he was in Ohio they let a black guy vote and Pap thought that was really unfair. Pap is clearly very unhappy with how the government is being run, and who is in charge.
From my viewpoint, Pap is over reacting a lot, a drunk who beats his child should not be allowed to vote on the leader of our nation. Taking into consideration that most black people were thought of as not even human back then and had no rights. The concept of people owning other people was not considered to be inappropriate or wrong to him, that was what they had always done. But now, in our time period, to even think of owning another person, is disgusting, as it should be.
Pap steals Huck away from the Widow's house and takes him out into the woods with him and there they live off the land, and survive in the wilderness. One night, Huck is locked in the shack while Pap goes into town to buy whiskey and Pap comes back, highly intoxicated, and starts ranting about the government that they have at this time. And Pap goes on to complain about when he was in Ohio they let a black guy vote and Pap thought that was really unfair. Pap is clearly very unhappy with how the government is being run, and who is in charge.
From my viewpoint, Pap is over reacting a lot, a drunk who beats his child should not be allowed to vote on the leader of our nation. Taking into consideration that most black people were thought of as not even human back then and had no rights. The concept of people owning other people was not considered to be inappropriate or wrong to him, that was what they had always done. But now, in our time period, to even think of owning another person, is disgusting, as it should be.