BEDA #4: John Green WOULD make it into my essay

Don't have time to write anything today. Instead, Imunna stick mah 5RACKS video in here and post the first paragraph of my Huck Finn essay:

John Green, novelist and public speaker, once said, “At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you’ll look back down and see that you floated away, too.” Young Huckleberry Finn of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn proves just how easy it is for even a young boy to be swept off a realistic grounding out of envy of those they see as above them. Just as Green warns us we might do, Huck becomes so enveloped in the ideals of the society that surrounds him that he loses any grasp of his own opinions he may have had. It is through the powerful influence of society over Huck that Twain uses Huck as an example of the modern view of tabula rasa in this sense. Once Huck is removed from society, however, the pressure to think and ultimately live following a strict format is dissolved enough for him to finally form his own opinion. The positive influence that this has on Huck’s character provides perfect clarity as to Twain’s own opinions on the value of Locke’s definition of tabula rasa versus that of modern society. However, when Huck returns to society, the modern view once again supersedes Locke’s and all the progress that had been made while separated from society is quickly erased. It is through this sudden dissipation of morals that Twain comments on society as a whole, using his omnipresent method of twisting his message amidst his words to display his displeasure in how much society forms their own views based on the views of society as a whole.