Huckleberry Finn has a sound heart; he tries to be a good person. Although Huck believes himself to be evil, he is actually good. This is seen when Huck first finds the slave Jim on Jackson Island. Huck, since he has constantly been exposed to slavery and sees Jim as a runaway slave, struggles between wanting to help Jim escape and wanting to turn Jim in to the authorities. If Huckleberry helps Jim escape, then he is an abolitionist, which he has grown to see as evil, but helping Jim escape is a good thing for Huck to do.
Huck has a deformed conscience through the way he has been raised. The South, where Huckleberry