Why Is Huck Finn Shrewd

Is Huckleberry Finn is a shrewd character in the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain? Huck Finn is a very shrewd character because he is clever, cunning, and also street-smart. First of all, Huck is shrewd because he is very clever for a fourteen-year-old boy. He frames his death by killing a wild pig and making a trail of its blood, “I fetched the pig in, and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the axe; and laid him down on the ground to bleed. I say ground because it was ground-hard packed, and no boards. Well, next I took an old sack and put a lot of big rocks in it-all I could drag-and I started it from the pig, and dragged it to the door and through the woods down to the river and dumped …show more content…
This also shows that Huck Finn is clever and a shrewd character. Huck is very cunning. He knows when a situation is going to turn bad and he finds a way to stay out of trouble without thinking too much about it. The first example that shows Huck is sharp is, “I stayed in the tree till it begun to get dark, afraid to come down. Sometimes I heard guns in the woods; and twice I seen little gangs of men gallop past the log store with guns; so I reckoned the trouble was still a-going on.”(p.115). By staying in the tree while the battle between the Grangerfords and the Sheperdsons shows that Huck is cunning and a shrewd character.
The second example that shows that Huck is cunning is, “About that time I hears their footsteps coming, and was going to skip under the bed; I reached for it, but it wasn’t where I thought it would be; but I touched the curtain that hid Mary Jane’s frocks, so I jumped in behind that and snuggled in amongst the gowns, and stood there perfectly still” (p.176). Huck shows that he is sharp and shrewd in this quote because he hides behind the curtains instead of under the bed when he hears the footsteps of the Duke and Dauphin coming up the