Which one of the following characters do you believe to be most cruel? Explain your choice using details from the book.
- Jim
- Colonel Sherburn
- Colonel Grangerford
- The King
- The Duke
- the residents of Pokeville, Arkansas
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The characters that i believe to be the most cruel would be the Duke and the King. I think both of them are cruel in a equal way. They both know that Jim and Huck are very trusting, and they take advantage of that quality. They make Jim and Huck wait on them as if they were their servants, and they both take their beds to sleep in. Then when they come to the town both of the men con the people into giving them money. For example the King made people believe that he was a pirate who had been robbed and he was so poor. The people feeling sorry for him gave him the money they had. That right there is an example of taking advantage of somebodies kindness. In my own opinion i can't say one is worse than the other, because they both do the same thing and have the same qualities of a dishonest liar.
i believe the king and the duke are equally cruel. both the duke and the king attempt to decieve huck and jim. the king and duke are using huck and jim to get there way, like being waited on for food, bowing down to them, ect. both men are conartists trying to take advantage of people to get what they please. both men act similar, so it's hard do distinguish one as worse than the other.
The King and the Duke are equally cruel becuase the both treat Jim and Huck in the same manor. They treat Jim and Huck like slaves. The even make Huck and Jim bow down to them. They take advantage of innocent Jim and Huck time after time. They are not only cruel to Jim and Huck but they are also cruel to the townspeople. They get the towns people to give them money by making the people feel sorry for them. They are both very cruel and I believe one is no more cruel than the other.
I also believe that the Duke and King are the most cruel. They both take advantage of Huck and Jim,who are being very kind and believing every word that they say.
The characters i think are the most cruel are the king and the duke. They just think they can go around and lie about everything they do. They take advantage of Huck and Jim by using them, they stay with them. What they don't know is that Huck actually figured out their schemes..but he said he was just going to leave them alone because that's what your supposed to do with those kind of people.
The King and the Duke are the most cruel. Huck and Jim trusted the King and the Duke but they seemed to just take advantage of them.
I'm gonna have to go with the trend and say the duck and the king. both appear nice but only until they get what they want, they use huck and jim as a free ride.
i ment duke not duck...
I'm going to have to say that the duke and the king are the most cruel. Not only by conning everybody in the town, but also by taking advantage of Jim and Huck's trust. Huck and Jim kindly allowed the duke and the king to travel with them but the king and the duke make jim and huck seem so inferior by making them say your grace etc. and serving their every need.
I believe that the duke and king and the cruel ones. Because, they are making fools out of Jim and Huck. They are using them and treating them like servants when they are both searching for freedom. and I believe they are both really pirates because of the story he tells to the people at the camp.
My opinion would have to be that the King and the Duke are the most cruel characters. The King and Duke don't really appreciate Huck and Jim for what they are doing. Instead they take advantage of what they are given and make Huck and Jim their servants. They also lie to people and con people out of money. They are just horrible people.
When reflecting on the cruelty that is being portrayed in this story, I believe that the King and the Duke are equally cruel. They go around compulsively lying to numerous people. They even go as far as taking advantage of Huck and Jim. Regardless of how nice and trusting Jim and Huck both are, the King and the Duke have no problem with walking all over them.
Its a toss up between the Duke and the King. They are so similar in character that we can just combine them into one and they are by far the most cruel of the list. They find out that Huck and Jim are very trustworthy, and they use their knieving traits to feed off of them. They take advantage of the children and force them to do slave-like work. Also look to what they do for a living, they are conmen, they are full of lies and deceit and you can't top those cruel traits.
As everyone else has previously stated, I, too, believe the King and the Duke to be the most cruel. They take advantage of Huck and Jim and their trusting, innocent personalities. Good people would not even think seriously about doing something like that.
I am going to go out on a limb here and say that Colonel Sherburn and Colonel Grangerford are the most cruel. They are involved in a family feud that has been going on so long they don't even know when it started. These people who are fighting for no cause end up killing people because of some petty argument they don't even know about. Yes the King and Duke are cruel, but they don't kill anyone because of some stupid feud.
I think each character has been cruel at one point in the story. Jim has unknowingly beaten his child for being deaf and dumb, the King and the Duke scam their way all over the south and use lies and deceit when it comes to anyone they meet. They are mostly inconsiderate when it comes to Huck and Jim--their carelessnes with the law could really get Huck and Jim caught. But most of all, the feud with the Grangerfords is probably the most cruel, because their pointless battle has killed innocent children. How can you fight about something when you don't even know what it is?
Colonel Grangerford wouldn't even let his daughter pursue with true love because of his own selfishness.
I think that the most cruel out of these choices is the King and the Duke. They are the kind of people who take advantage of others. Huck and Jim allow them to travel on their raft and the king and duke treat them as if they were their slaves. They also take advantage of other people, such that they make their living off of other people'e money. They make up some kind of story and use it to con people into giving them money.
I believe that the King is the most cruel of them all. For one he had to trump the duke and get more attention and better previlages. Another reason is that after reading the next few chapters he shows cruelty when he decides to take the wilks girls money from them and leave them high and dry.
I think the King and the Duke are the most cruel. They both lie and take advantage of everyone else.
Huck and Jim believed and trusted them and the King and the Duke used Huck and Jim to get their way
I think the grangerfords and the sheperdsons with there feuding over nonsense they don't even remember feuding about which is a pointless feud if you ask me if you are willing to kill one of your neighbors for what? some land and you aren't sure about that? Let me ask you this is, killing another really worth nothing? Is that really a price to pay, it's nonsense, and stupid. You think people would put peace before a life, since the ones who had to pay that we really know of in the story for sure is children, I think that is creul, when the duke and the king can lie and steal, money can be replaced, and they will get there own share of karma in the end, and it will come back and bite them on the fanny! But it's never right to take a life for nothing.
I think that while the Duke and the King certainly can be considered cruel the cruelest character so far is Colonel Sherburn. First of all, shooting "Boggs" was completely uncalled for. He might have been 'disrupting' everybody, but everyone seemed to be having a good time with it, it was like some kind of tradition for the town or something. Secondly, he was unbelievably mean to everyone who had come to 'lynch' him. He told them that none of the people there was man enough to actually do it, and that one guy was only 'half a man'. As true as it might be, that's not something a nice, non-cruel person would say.
I think that the King and Duke are the most cruel because they are using Huck and Jim to help them con people. They are being dishonest with everyone and taking advantage of Jim and Huck's trust and respect. They are treating both Huck and Jim as servents, which is ironic because Jim is trying to escape from that with Huck's help. Botht the Duke and King are very cruel for many reasons.
I believe that the King and the Duke are the cruelest characters. Both characters take advantage of Huck and Jim and treat them as if they are inferior subjects. They both pull scams and trick people into thinking that they are poor and very bad off, and then they just take their money. They also treat Jim and Huck like their own slaves, and just kind of come in and take over. Including their both of their beds. Both the King and Duke have each others backs in the scams, so you can't really put all the cruelty on one or the other.
I think the most cruel characters in the book would have to be the Duke and the King. The Duke and the King are the most cruel because of the way they both choose to treat Huck and Jim throughout the story. They take advantage of the two [[Huck & Jim]] by using them as a way of travel/transportation on the river.An example, when it came time to sleep the Duke and the King expected Huck and Jim to give up their sleeping spots for them and watch through the night. Neither one of these men are better then the other just because of they way they are feeding of everything they trying to benifit themselves.
I think that the king and the duke are the cruelest characters in Huckleberry Finn. I believe they are the cruelest because they spend their lives conning and stealing from the good and the innocent. For example, Mary Jane is now a young orphaned girl who has done nothing wrong and the king and the duke are planning on stealing every single last thing that she owns. They do not only treat the people they’re tricking badly, but they also treat Jim and Huck very badly by making them treat them like they really are royalty.
I beleive that the king and duke would have to be most cruel. Ithink this for the sole reason that neither the king or the duke seem to care about anybodys' well-being besises their own. Every new town the run into the two of these men are schemeing up new ways to get rich and they have no regards what affects their plans have on other families. Even Huck thiks that they are acting in a selfish way>
When you look at cruelty directly not of the people in the choices show true cruelty. Being cruel in my mind is doing things so horribly twisted that it truly marks everyone, but the person who i think is closest to cruelty is Sherburn. He killed a man for rightfully using his freedom of speech and by no means can a person be punished for using their unaleinable rights (except of course school and other places as such). Killing someone for using such roght is the most cruel because it shows the unwillinglessness of society to follow its own laws it made to create a better nation. Plus when the crowd decided not to bring justice it only further showed the United States incompetence at using our justice system correctly. This man has shown that in the United states of America if you are good with your words and know how to attack peoples emotions you can get out of anything, even murder.
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When you look at cruelty directly not of the people in the choices show true cruelty. Being cruel in my mind is doing things so horribly twisted that it truly marks everyone, but the person who i think is closest to cruelty is Sherburn. He killed a man for rightfully using his freedom of speech and by no means can a person be punished for using their unaleinable rights (except of course school and other places as such). Killing someone for using such roght is the most cruel because it shows the unwillinglessness of society to follow its own laws it made to create a better nation. Plus when the crowd decided not to bring justice it only further showed the United States incompetence at using our justice system correctly. This man has shown that in the United states of America if you are good with your words and know how to attack peoples emotions you can get out of anything, even murder.
I think that Sherburn is the most cruel. He killed a man for merely making some incoherent comments. Such a disregard for life is highest form of cruelty.
I think Col. Sherburn is the most cruel of the listed people because he ruthlessly murder a man infront of the man's daughter. Though it is true that he had given the man a warning he should have at least waited unti lthe child was not around. The man was leaving at the time as well which, by all technical means, means that the man had done as the Col. had demanded.
I believe that colonel sherburn is the cruelest character of the six listed. The other characters are all cruel in their own way taking advantage of people, and doing some pretty awful things but nothing like what sherburn did. Even though he gave "warning" I still think that he is the cruelest because not only did he kill a man he did it with no good reason.
The characters I believe is most cruel in this book are the duke and the king. They are both grown men that are relying on a child and a black man that can't support himself without being shipped back to slavery. They take from people who are in bad situations like Peter's children. They have no self respect and do not care about others feelings or problems. They are cruel by the way they treat people.
I'd have to say the duke and the king because they scam people out of their money. Even though Huck kinda knew what they were doing he still trusted them and they took advantage of that. Jim trusted them and they used Jim and Huck for their own benefit and only thought of their selves.
I believe that the Duke and the King are the most cruel. They play mean tricks on anyone they can. Huck and jim are so trustworthy and nice that they are taken advantage of by the duke and king. The townspeople are also taken advantage of when the duke and king pretend to be people they arent just so they can scam the townspeople out of their money. And because the people are so nice they give up their money to help them.
In my opinion, the Duke and King are the most cruel characters in the book. Jim and Huck may be overly trusting, but that fact just makes what the King and Duke are doing even worse. They're taking advantage of people who do not know any better.
I think the Duke and the King are very cruel. All the listed characters have been cruel in some way, but I don't really think it is intentional in most of the cases other than with the Duke and King because the are knowingly taking advantage of Huck and Jim and they also scam innocent people just for money. That is cruel.
I would say that the two cruelest people in the story are the Duke and the King. They go from town to town swindling and stealing from people without any sort of remorse. They also take advantage of the fact that Jim and Huck take them in and tell them secrets like Jim is a slave and also help take care of them and help them with their swindling. Then to top it all off they expect to get the money and not split it with anyone else in the case of Mary Jane and her sisters who have just lost their father and only family they knew. They expect them just live out on the street. That alone makes these two characters the cruelest in the story.
I also believe that the king and the duke are the most creaul. they are always scamming people and taking peoples money. they even use poor jim and huck as part of their evil schemes. they go around being fake and disrupting different peoples lives. they have no sense of care or compassion towards anyone which makes them the creulest characters in the book...so far.
The characters that I believe are the King and the Duke. They make Huck and Jim their servants and take advantage of people to gain profit. They are obviously crooks and try to take money that is not rightfully theirs by means of cheap entertainment and lying. They are, in my opinion, the worst and cruelest people in this story.
I believe the most cruel actually might be the most cruel. He plays mindless jokes of jim like the snake in the bed trick. This shows is cruel nature and the fact that he wants to turn jim in for wanting to steal his kids back, this shows Hucks incompitence as well. It's not that he know he's cruels, it's his dumb witted cruelty.
I believ that the Duke and the King are the most cruel characters in the book. What they do is not only legaly wrong but also morally wrong. They just fake being other people to scam people to get their money. They don't really care about anything or anyone else except getting money for themselves. They are both liars, thieves, and crimanals and are both very cruel.
The Duke and the King stand out to me as the most cruel characters in the novel. They take and steal anything they can get their hands on, and they're so greedy. They don't care about anyone else's feelings. In a way the King and the Duke act as one character; they both act with the same amount of cruelty.
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