“Did you want to kill him, Buck?”
“Well, I bet I did.”
“What did he do to you?”
“Him? He never done nothing to me.”
“Well, then, what did you want to kill him for?”
“Why nothing – only it’s on account of the feud.”
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 18. Huck and Buck Grangerford, after Buck shoots at one of the Shepherdsons as he rides by. The absurd and mindless feud between the two families is symbolic of how society can corrupt people who are essentially good.