Picking just one bad habit is like getting only one piece of candy at Sweet
Factory. Once I finally picked my bad habit I realized how badly I needed to
work on it. Huck had a bad habit he needed to work on too. Maybe we didn’t
know about it or thought we could get rid of it easily. But were either of us
going to work it out? In the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,
which we were reading in class, the main character Huck had many bad habits as
well. But his one main bad habit was lying to himself and by doing this he broke
the law, his moral code and the law of God. It all started after he fakes his
own death and runs to an island where he finds a run away slave, Jim that worked
for Miss Watson, his guardian’s sister. Next they leave to find Cairo but as
they float down the river they run into many hardships. While this is happening
Huck is doing most of his lying to himself. This is very similar to my bad habit
because during my month of trying to quit fighting with my mom I went through
some very hard times holding back what I wanted to say. This was a very big
hardship of mine. So I realized Huck and I had a lot in common. Huck’s bad
habit was first shown to us in chapter VIII when Huck tells Jim, “Well I did.
I said I wouldn’t, and I’ll stick to it. Honest injun I will.” He is
telling Jim he wont tell anyone that he ran away which means Huck is breaking
the law of the land. We knows this because Huck also says “People would call
me a low sown Ablitionist and despise me for keeping mum—but that don’t make
no difference.” Huck again lies for Jim in chapter XVI when he is about to
tell the men on the raft that Jim is with him but his conscience comes into
play. When this happens he lies to these men and this is just adding more to his
bad habit. Also in this chapter Huck breaks his own moral code. When him and Jim
miss Cairo he says “There warn’t anything to say. We both knowed well enough
it was more work of the rattle-snake skin; so what was the use to talk about
it?” This is breaking his own moral code because he didn’t believe that a
rattlesnake could bring bad luck. Then he broke the law of God in chapter XXXI
when he said, “You can’t pray a lie—I found that out.” This is when Huck
realized that he doesn’t think what he was doing was wrong. Last in chapter XL
Huck realizes that the colors of the skin really don’t matter. So at the end
Huck breaks through his bad habit. Well my bad habit basically started when my
mom started telling me no. And I just wasn’t going to take it. So I started
talking back and I wouldn’t stop until I got my way or hurt my mom. Which is
really something I don’t want to do. That’s why I was hoping by trying to
break this bad habit I wouldn’t have to do it anymore. It started out pretty
good I would be ready to fight or say something that might hurt my moms’
feelings and I would catch myself. It started feeling better right away and my
mom even noticed the change. But then I began to think less and less about it
and it all started back up again. So I wrote in my journals about the change and
how I didn’t want it to go back but before I knew it my mom and I were
fighting and it was the end of the month. Huck and I were alike because I broke
my own moral code by being rude to my mom. I also broke the law of God because
in the bible it says honor your father and mother and I don’t think what I’m
doing is considered that. Huck and I were different because Huck no longer had a
bad habit and I still do. Well Huck worked his bad habit out and is probably
feeling pretty good. However I’m still working on mine and I think maybe one
day I might be free of this. So I’m going to keep on trying and if I ever do
make it through this I will make sure to tell you. But until that day comes
I’ll always go for as many candies as I can get.