Addressing Fatherhood Responsibility in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird

This paper is devoted to father’s greatest responsibility in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. It addresses how child education constitutes parents’ most preoccupying challenge. Many parents’ irresponsibility towards this challenge is equally highlighted. Through the lens of Reader- response theory, the paper focuses on father’s role in child’s education by considering The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird, two classics of Bildungsroman. It has two parts: after addressing parental irresponsibility in child education, it advocates for parents’ investment in child’s upbringing through analysis of father-child relationships in both works. Keywords: Responsibility, Child, Education, Parent, Fatherhood