Mark Twain is a classic author who came up with intriguing characters that captivated readers across the world. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is one of his most well-known works as he puts us into the life Huck. Young Huckleberry lives in Missouri in the 1830’s, and is trying to figure out how the world around him works through people and experiences Our boyish Huck learns many things from his experience with the Duke and the Dauphin, some which he needed to learn and later uses in his life.
Given that Huck Finn is not at all perfect he had to learn countless lessons in order to develop into a better person. Likewise, the Duke and the Dauphin teach Huck many things to not do. Notably, Huck needs to learn to stop taking advantage of …show more content…
For instance, Huck learns that taking advantage of people is wrong when the Duke and Dauphin claim to be royals simply to get Huck and Jim to serve them and give them the best of everything they had, and Jim doesn’t know better so he obeys them. Huck didn’t like the two because “It didn’t take (him0 long to make up (his) mind that these liars warn’t no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds.” After realizing that he had been taken advantage of, Huck doesn’t like the idea of it anymore and learns that it is not fun to be taken advantage of from the personal experience he has, finally having a taste of his own medicine. He learned by seeing the Duke and Dauphin taking advantage of him and Jim. As well as taking advantage, the Duke and Dauphin lie to extreme extents, most importantly they lie saying that they are the late Peter Wilks brother. The men do this to get Mr. Wilks money and estate but, the men end up being caught because the real brothers do come with “misfortunes; (one) broke his arm, and (their) baggage got put off at a town above (there) last night by a mistake.” (241) Even when this occurs the king just continues lying, consuming the lie even when told “he’s a fraud and a liar.” Huck watches this whole scene occur and is taught that the lies that the Duke and Dauphin came up with ended …show more content…
Huck shows he is capable of not taking advantage of people, when he starts to refuse to take part in the Duke and Dauphin’s plan to steal Mr. Wilk’s money. He refuses to take the money and instead decide that “(he)’ll hive that money for them or bust.” Which he actually takes the money from the Duke and Dauphin and puts it in Peter’s coffin. He uses the knowledge that taking advantage of people is wrong to a point where he tries to prevent others from being taken advantage of. Likewise, Huck starts to treat Jim better, more like an equal or a friend saying that “(he) was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the ONLY one he 's got now.” (263). In the same way, Huck knows to not lie and decides to tell Mary the truth about the Duke and the Dauphin, that they “ain’t no uncles at all; they’re a couple of frauds-regular dead-beats.” Because he decides to tell her this we can infer that Huck no longer wishes to be involved in the lies of the Duke and Dauphin and found that it is wrong to
Given that Huck Finn is not at all perfect he had to learn countless lessons in order to develop into a better person. Likewise, the Duke and the Dauphin teach Huck many things to not do. Notably, Huck needs to learn to stop taking advantage of …show more content…
For instance, Huck learns that taking advantage of people is wrong when the Duke and Dauphin claim to be royals simply to get Huck and Jim to serve them and give them the best of everything they had, and Jim doesn’t know better so he obeys them. Huck didn’t like the two because “It didn’t take (him0 long to make up (his) mind that these liars warn’t no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds.” After realizing that he had been taken advantage of, Huck doesn’t like the idea of it anymore and learns that it is not fun to be taken advantage of from the personal experience he has, finally having a taste of his own medicine. He learned by seeing the Duke and Dauphin taking advantage of him and Jim. As well as taking advantage, the Duke and Dauphin lie to extreme extents, most importantly they lie saying that they are the late Peter Wilks brother. The men do this to get Mr. Wilks money and estate but, the men end up being caught because the real brothers do come with “misfortunes; (one) broke his arm, and (their) baggage got put off at a town above (there) last night by a mistake.” (241) Even when this occurs the king just continues lying, consuming the lie even when told “he’s a fraud and a liar.” Huck watches this whole scene occur and is taught that the lies that the Duke and Dauphin came up with ended …show more content…
Huck shows he is capable of not taking advantage of people, when he starts to refuse to take part in the Duke and Dauphin’s plan to steal Mr. Wilk’s money. He refuses to take the money and instead decide that “(he)’ll hive that money for them or bust.” Which he actually takes the money from the Duke and Dauphin and puts it in Peter’s coffin. He uses the knowledge that taking advantage of people is wrong to a point where he tries to prevent others from being taken advantage of. Likewise, Huck starts to treat Jim better, more like an equal or a friend saying that “(he) was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the ONLY one he 's got now.” (263). In the same way, Huck knows to not lie and decides to tell Mary the truth about the Duke and the Dauphin, that they “ain’t no uncles at all; they’re a couple of frauds-regular dead-beats.” Because he decides to tell her this we can infer that Huck no longer wishes to be involved in the lies of the Duke and Dauphin and found that it is wrong to