Huckleberry Finn's Decisions

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Huckleberry Finn Makes His Own Decision.

Huckleberry Finn is taken place where slavery and racism is hugely used and courage. Even though Huckleberry is not races himself, he believes in the same rules as the society around encourage. When he has to be put to the test whether what the right thing is in what mind state Huckleberry Finn must decide. Growing up Huckleberry Finn is raised with a wrong heart and only has a mindset for two different types of people: slaves and whites. Huckleberry is now on a different position as he was a younger and now will make a different person with a different Heart a “Sound Heart”
Huckleberry is truly loyal to his friend, who also happens to be a slave. It could be inferred Huckleberry has a sound heart
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In the book, both Jim and Huckleberry are runaways. Huckleberry must steal or borrow twice as much as food as before now. Huckleberry risks a lot when it comes to the adventure he and Jim must do. As shown in the text, “mornings, before daylight, i slipped into corn fields and borrowed a watermelon, or muskmelon, or pumpkin, or some new corn, or thing of that kind.” (Twain pg. 76). Huckleberry is growing up and is having his adventures in the south. At any moment Huckleberry could be killed, put in jail, or any of this sort. Huckleberry is a young boy whose right now the only option is to take what is necessary and now, with the slave, he thinks so deeply for, he must do double the work. This shows how the conscience of Huckleberry is greater than the heart he was raised to be. To be able to do all the work for two people and be more than willing for the friend not to be …show more content…
Huckleberry and Jim were now close friends and a couple of people were not going to take him away. When Jim and Huckleberry find two more passengers along with them fleeing for safely, the two take them in. Huckleberry had to defend Jim from people they saved. Huckleberry did not know who these people were, but Jim was worth a lot of money at this time, so Huckleberry had to defend him as he always did. As shown in the text, “Goodness sakes, would a runaway nigger run south?” (Twain pg.138). Huckleberry had to lie to people on the same boat with Huckleberry and Jim. Huckleberry was a person now used to defending Jim and was now his best friend. When people from the south ask about him, he did the only wrong thing to do in society, but correct in his conscience and his heart. Huckleberry is white, and having the authoritative attitude allowed the two white people to believe him and no longer ask questions about who he was. This is how a good conscience and the heart will overcome anything and shows how society is wrong but Huckleberry rather have a

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