Huckleberry Finn Point Of View Analysis

All people perceive the world through different eyes. Viewpoint is a powerful tool that has the ability to drastically alter an entire piece of literature. A good narrator is determined by their ability to deliver the author’s intended purpose effectively. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author, Mark Twain, chooses an interesting and debatable narrator. Despite Huckleberry Finn’s youth, he is a suitable narrator for this novel because he gives the audience a unique perspective, allows the author to present controversial topics, and gives an unbiased view of events. As a young boy, Huck’s narration may be flawed. In this novel, a thirteen year old boy runaway meets up with a local runaway slave, named Jim, and travels …show more content…
As Huck Finn was living with Miss Watson, she attempted to teach him how to be a civilized young man. One of the principles that correlates with this principle is Christianity. One of the foundations of this institution is praying. Huck explains that Miss Watson instructed him to pray every day and then whatever he asked for, he would receive. As expected, this is not what took place and Miss Watson tried to explain to him why. Huck misunderstood the in and outs of Christianity. However, this is understandable since the widow Douglas and Miss Watson told him disparate things about God and religion. Sometimes the widow would tell Huck things that would make him want to hear and learn more, but then Miss Watson would discredit what the widow had said and Huck would never want to listen again. Some teachings were glorious and splendid, while the others were terrible and frightening. As a result of this divergent teaching, Huck concluded that there must be two gods. “I judged I could see that there was two Providences, and a poor chap would stand considerable show with the widow’s Providence, but if Miss Watson’s got him there warn’t no help for him any more. I thought it all out, and reckoned I would belong to the widow’s, if he wanted me, though I couldn’t make out how he was agoing to be any better off then than what he was before, seeing …show more content…
After the duke and king sold Jim being Huck’s back, Huck set out to search for and repossess him. Huck was angry with himself to have allowed this to happen and he believed things were all messed up and ruined now. At the same time he felt very bad for Jim and didn’t want him to be a slave all his life once again. He thought of how things would have been if they’d done things differently and never set out on this journey in the first place. “Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he’d got to be a slave, and so I’d better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Watson where he was. But I soon give up that notion, for two things: she’d be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she’d sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn’t, everybody naturally despises and ungrateful nigger, and they’d make Jim feel it all the time, and sp he’d feel ornery and disgraced” (Twain 233). As a result of Huck being in the lower social class of whites, he holds some of the South’s values, although the society hasn’t totally ingrained him with other Southern values. As Huck goes through his adventures he is relatively unbiased for one side of an argument or the