Provide an example in which Twain uses weather as a motive and a contributor to the mood in this novel.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by...

In Mark Twain's American classic, The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn, weather is certainly employed to
portend the danger in which Jim and Huck find themselves in the company of the King and
the Duke.  And, nefarious as they are, the King and the Duke use the weather as an
excuse for their own selfish motives, investigating the
raft:

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night it begun to darken up and look like rain; the heat lightning was squirting around,
low down in the sky, and the leaves ws beginning to shiver--it was going to be pretty
ugly, it was easy to see that.  So the duke and the king went to overhauling our wigwam,
to see what the beds was
like.

The two men, who
represent life on the road (and sometimes a raft) in which innocents are taken advantage
of and just about anything can happen, also exploit Jim and Huck by sleeping in their
beds and telling them that they must keep watch on the raft. As they do so, Huck and Jim
are nearly killed by the storm by being struck by lightning or by being swept off the
raft.  Huck narrates,

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The waves most washed me off the raft,
sometimes....the lightning was glaring and flittering around so
constant....