Friday, February 10, 2012

shame of human race


In the circus, a drunken man tries to come into the ring. He says that he could ride a horse better than everybody else and the crowd laugh and say alright. The man gets on the horse and holds his neck. The horse starts running, and the man’s heels fly in the air. The horse breaks loose, and the man almost falls. The people go crazy. They just laugh watching him dying. At the end, they find out that they were manipulated, and people yell out with pleasure.

But when Huck sees the man, he could never laugh. Even though it was all fake, Huck still feels bad about it. But when people see a man falling off of the horse’s back, they rather think it is just hilarious than feel uneasy or nervous. People in the circus do not know the value of life. They do not have standards of morality. They enjoy watching a man dying. Huck sees the people through the crowd who is selfish and corrupted. To borrow Huck’s words, it is “shame of human race”.

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