Similarities Between Huckleberry Finn And Frederick Douglass

Education now a days is a fairly easy thing to obtain, whether it’s through cheap public schools or more expensive private schools, but in the 1800’s education was more of rarity than a commodity. In the story Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and the auto-biography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass written by himself, shows the more unconventional ways that people may have needed to go through to have something that resembles an education. Where Huck Finn had simply lived his life and traveled the lands to gain his knowledge, and Frederick Douglass using sly trickery and a piece of bread to gain his own knowledge. With this, both of these men learned through the interactions of people, and with that, may have received a better education than people get

He had a fairly rich family that was able to afford to send Huck to school for a short while. Although he did not stay long after his father showed up, so the majority of his education came from floating down the Mississippi River. As he floated, he started learning through the people he encountered, like the very conniving Duke and King. From them, Huck learns that tricking people may not always be a good thing to do, for it can be used to do some incredibly cruel things. Even though the tricks that Huck pulled were a fair bit more innocent, it put things into perspective for Huck. Jim was another man that Huck learned quite a bit from. Before he escaped with Jim, he was taught that slaves were a lesser man, that Negros were men that were cursed by God to be the slaves of white men. After the trip though, Huck see’s what twisted thinking this was. He knew that Jim was as much of a man as any other, if not better than most other men. With this, the main difference with Huck’s education from Douglass’ education is that Huck learned more about what is right and what is wrong, while Douglass had more book