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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Drugs and Alcohol Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #13

So then they put it on him, you see; and while they was full of it, next day, back comes old Finn, and went boo-hooing to Judge Thatcher to get money to hunt for the n***** all over Illinois with. The judge gave him some, and that evening he got drunk, and was around till after mid- night with a couple of mighty hard-looking strangers, and then went off with them. (11.18)

Huck’s father prizes alcohol over finding his son’s potential murderer. In our minds, this is the last straw – Huck’s dad gets zero sympathy from anyone in the novel. His level of addiction makes him act in inhuman ways.

Quote #14

And in he come, and Bill after him. But before they got in I was up in the upper berth, cornered, and sorry I come. Then they stood there, with their hands on the ledge of the berth, and talked. I couldn't see them, but I could tell where they was by the whisky they'd been having. I was glad I didn't drink whisky; but it wouldn't made much difference anyway, because most of the time they couldn't a treed me because I didn't breathe. I was too scared. And, besides, a body COULDN'T breathe and hear such talk. (12.38)

In this novel, alcohol use is associated primarily with criminals and thieves.

Quote #15

"Here comes old Boggs! – in from the country for his little old monthly drunk; here he comes, boys!" (21.30)

Again we see that alcoholism results in habitual, cyclic bouts of drunkenness.