Question

nalyze the scene where Huck flips the spider into the candle. Why does he feel that this would bring him bad luck? How does this scene foreshadow superstition in the novel? Support your answer with examples from the novel.

Answer 1

2.Huck feels that by killing the spider, although unintentionally, that bad luck would be brought to him. He bases this idea on old superstition, a common theme of the book, that a spider on you is good luck, and by killing it brings bad luck. This bad luck can be seen as the novel progresses, especially when he runs into his father in his room, with his father being a person he never wanted to see again. Eventually his father even drags Huck away from the Widow and the Judge to a cabin in the woods, and receives a variety of punishments for trying to be better than “his father"