Is Huck Finn Good Or Bad

At the end of the book “The adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Jim finds himself being held as a slave once more, even after all that he and Huck went through to avoid such a situation. Huck does not think he can break out his new-found friend on his own, and Tom just happens to be right where he needs him. So after a needlessly convoluted plan, involving Tom getting shot in the leg, Jim needlessly losing blood, and other dangers; Jim still gets caught after he escaped to help the kid who broke him out. Only then does Tom decide to tell us Jim was freed a short while ago. People may say Tom was just being cruel, but it is very likely that he was a thirteen year old boy, who was just up for an adventure.
Throughout the novel, it was seen that …show more content…
The main one that is being discussed, is Tom keeping a piece of important information to himself, that Jim was freed by his owner, Miss Watson. It is known that Jim was of course a slave, but his owner wrote in her will that Jim was to be freed whenever she was no longer living. Tom found out about this, and still kept it to himself. However, Tom wasn’t trying to be cruel, he just was not thinking straight. He saw the fun in it; rather than the seriousness because he was still trying to help Huck break Jim out. Tom does not realize that he, Jim, and Huck could be in mortal danger if they are not careful when they bust their captured friend out. Due to this ignorance that Tom portrayed, it ended up in all three of the boys getting physically hurt. As mentioned in chapter 41, their attempt to escape did not go as planned because they attracted attention while Tom made a noise going over the fence; causing the farmers to shoot at them and wound Tom. This was just one of the examples that shows Tom is just being a normal thirteen year old boy that wants to experience the adventure instead of thinking through things. Another key point is mentioned in a quote from the novel;