Twain’s addition of characters to the novel was a great idea and a necessary move. King and Duke’s appearance in the novel create a new challenge to Huck’s journey of what is right and wrong. Also, their presence creates a bad influence on Huck, but it allows Huck to grow up from being the little boy he once was. “...These liars warn’t no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds.” (Twain, 125) It shows how the world is full of liars and crooks and how Huck found it best just to accept them as who they claimed to be then going ahead and calling them out for who they really were. He had been mature enough to make that decision so he wouldn’t start any trouble. Twain concludes chapter twenty four with a shameful con that no
