What does being civilized mean? According to Huck, being civilized is to bathe oneself, to dress in tight and uncomfortable clothes, to wear clean clothes, to behave and to speak properly, and most importantly to pray. When the widow, Ms. Watson tries to civilize Huck by teaching him these things, he feels trap and uncomfortable. Even though, he does not like living with his pap, he sure does not want to return to live with Ms. Watson either when pap returns to take him back. This emphasizes that being civilized is as bad as pap’s beating and drunkenness and is an imprisonment as it forces people to conform to societal view of what is proper human behaviors; therefore, Huck tries to escape from it.
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