In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn fakes his own death in order to get away from his father: the town drunk. While escaping from his father, he encounters the slave of Miss Watson, a woman who insists on Huckleberry Finn becoming a pious, righteous young man. This slave, Jim, is now Huckleberry Finn’s only companion on a journey to escape his father. However, while on the Mississippi River, they encounter two men known as the king and the duke whose values of trickery and greed made them almost able to receive inheritance from a man who they are not related to. Moreover, with their value of greed, they try to sell Jim, Huck Finn’s only companion, back into slavery. With Huck Finn’s companion being sold back into
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Although Huckleberry Finn may be a character who may consider himself to be morally bankrupt, Twain shows Huck Finn to the reader as someone who is morally righteous. After the king and duke have taken Jim, Huck Finn reflects on himself as someone who is morally bankrupt. While he may have employed deceit, he employs deceit as a means of survival away from his father who is the town drunk. Although deceit may be used as a tool for survival, Huck Finn reflects on his deceit as though he has done something evil. “That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain’t no disgrace.”p.177 As Huck states that he does not want to take any consequences, it tells the reader he has done something wrong. Huck also states in the next sentence that he thinks as long as he can hide something as something not worthy of disgrace, reminiscent of the way people think about their own imperfections. By connecting this way to the reader, Mark Twain showcases Huck as another human,
Although Huckleberry Finn may be a character who may consider himself to be morally bankrupt, Twain shows Huck Finn to the reader as someone who is morally righteous. After the king and duke have taken Jim, Huck Finn reflects on himself as someone who is morally bankrupt. While he may have employed deceit, he employs deceit as a means of survival away from his father who is the town drunk. Although deceit may be used as a tool for survival, Huck Finn reflects on his deceit as though he has done something evil. “That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain’t no disgrace.”p.177 As Huck states that he does not want to take any consequences, it tells the reader he has done something wrong. Huck also states in the next sentence that he thinks as long as he can hide something as something not worthy of disgrace, reminiscent of the way people think about their own imperfections. By connecting this way to the reader, Mark Twain showcases Huck as another human,