Huck Finn Role Models

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Characters in a story can be positive and negative role models to the protagonist. Pap, the Duke and King, and Jim in The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain are role models to Huck Finn. Pap and the Duke and King showed themselves as negative role models while Jim was a positive role model. Pap can be seen as a negative role model to Huck. Pap kidnapped Huck. Pap wanted to obtain the six thousand dollars Huck had through becoming his legal guardian. Due to a judge that delayed the process for Pap to get custody of Huck, Pap kidnapped Huck and made Huck live with him in a cabin in the woods. Pap put Huck through the emotional distress of being kidnapped and took Huck only for his money, showing Pap as a negative role model. Along with kidnapping Huck, Pap made Huck pick up swearing again. When Huck lived with Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, he never swore and was slightly civilized. Huck was exposed to Pap more often when Pap kidnapped him, which led Huck to start swearing again, showing Pap was a negative role model as Huck picked up bad traits such as swearing. In addition to picking up swearing from Pap, Pap physically beat Huck. Pap would constantly inflict physical harm to Huck, either while intoxicated or if Huck went to school to educate himself. Pap beating Huck showed him as a negative role model. Along with Pap, the Duke and King were negative role models. The Duke and King scammed a mourning family. The Duke and King tried scamming the Wilks family who had suffered the loss of Peter Wilks. The Duke and King used the death to their advantage and tried to ruin a family with 3 young girls. The Duke and King doing this highly immoral scam showed them as a negative influence for Huck. In addition to scamming the Wilks family, the Duke and King lie throughout the whole story. Initially lying about their identities, followed by all the scams the Duke and
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