Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Page 31-32
“I’ll take you down a peg before I get done with you. You’re educated, too, they say- can read and write. You think you’re better’n your father, now, don’t you, because he can’t?
In this quote you can see the power of education for the father feels inferior to his son how has and education and the father does not. By him say to his son he is going to knock him down a “peg” this shows that there is a son father hierarchy, and Finn is moving up in the hierarchy by getting an education. Latter on in the story the Finn’s father tells him to quite school or he will be beat, this shows how scared his father is of his son getting an education. For his son can use the education to his advantage and intellectually beat him.
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