Government / Judges / Lawyers / Soldiers / Doctors
They symbolize power, authority, and ideal images of successful people.
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Adult world
Disciplines and Punishment (Macro)
To maintain social order
To eliminate bad people such as Injun Joe, King, and Duke
To maintain the power of those people standing on the top of the social hierarchy
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Children world
Disciplines and Punishment (Micro)
Why?
To lead the children to the right path sanctioned by the adult world; parents hope that their children will not become Injun Joe
To eliminate the heterogeneous elements such as Huck
To manipulate the children
If children are not manipulated, they may become good-for-nothings in their society when they grow up.
How?
Behavior:
Strict rules of decorum
Absolute obedience
Stringent regulations
Castigation
The invalidity of castigation and moral edification:
She was so overcome by the splendor of his achievement that she took him into the closet and selected a choice apple and delivered it to him, along with an improving lecture upon the added value and flavor a treat took to itself when it came without sin through virtuous effort. And while she closed with a happy Scriptural flourish, he "hooked" a doughnut.
Mental manipulation:
Christian doctrines/religious inculcation
The legitimacy of slavery
The Bible
The Sunday-school books
Body:
Clean but effeminate apparel
Corporal punishment
The teacher punishes Tom because Tom talks with Huck. (Chapter 6)
Gestures in the school examination
Affected speech in the school examination
Time:
Time-table
Activities:
Inattention
Negligence
Parents’ approval of children’s outdoor activities
Space confinement:
Physical confinement in the church and school
Surveillance:
Aunt Polly and Judge Thatcher as metaphorical Panopticon
Discourses
Why?
Disciplinary and punitive mechanism reveals the impurity of children
Adult’s expectation of their next generation
To compensate for what the adults cannot do, such as love, charity, integrity, and honesty
How?
Adult expectation and imagination
Sunday-school books
Two different ways to obey the regulations and discourses:
Jacob
Sid
The causes of their obedience to authorities:
Fear of punishment
Craving for adults’ love, praise, and reward
Desire for power
The consequences of their obedience:
Differentiation
Imitation of the adult world: spies and informers
Comparison between model children and Huck:
Model children are not good
The so-called goodness is only the fragments of the ideal image. We cannot find a child who can reach the ideal image. The ideal image of a child is non-existent. The goodness a child shows is only a fragment of the ideal image.

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