Journal 4

Pap is uneducated and is pissed that he can't get Huck's money. He gives a drunken speech about the government and how the people that are running it are uneducated and stupid. This speech is very ironic because pap is a very uneducated person who was drunk at the moment, but he was complaining about the government and how the leaders are stupid. This speech in the book gave us a look at how the people were thinking back then and how most of the poor whits were not educated, but still criticized the government for making stupid decisions. I think this is the writers way of making fun of the mentality of the poor whits who criticized government.