Supernatural Beings in Mark Twains Adventures of...

Huckleberry Finn: Final Paper Superstition, excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings. Throughout this novel, the beliefs and superstitions of both black and white characters are showcased. How Mark Twain portrayal of both cultures contributes to the overall meaning of work is by using superstitions in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to present that violent beliefs people have, such as the color of a human beings skin, defines who they truly are, this prevents people from leaving their own comfort zones and growing up as a person. In Chapter ten, Jim and Huck are arguing and somehow Jim says that it is bad luck to touch a snakeskin with your hands. Huck didn’t believe Jim because they have found money in an overcoat they took, then Jim say that Huck is going to get it very soon. Jim knew that karma is coming towards pretty soon, then another snake comes up from behind and bites Jim right on the feet while sleeping. This gave reasons to believe in superstition, because of Huckleberry Finn touching the snakeskin that he got bit by a snake. Jim is a very superstitious human being and in the novel Jim predicts another superstition. Jim predicts that it will rain from seeing birds’ jumping what Huck says is that he will catch a small bird. Jim said it was death, he said that his father laid mighty sick one time, and some of them caught some birds, and his granny said his father would come to his death, which in the end he did. Huckleberry’s