Huck suffers from moral dilemmas and fluctuations in what he thought throughout the novel. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a novel about a young kid’s search for his identity and self belonging. Mark Twain’s novel was first published in 1884 and he said that the novel was set forty to fifty years before the time of publication. The novel was based just before the Civil War; roughly around 1835-1845. Huck struggled with conforming with his father’s way of being racist. Jim helps Huck realize that doing the right thing can be hard but will be rewarding in the end. Twain shows that he cares highly about people not being racist and how slavery was a terrible thing back in the days. Twain was trying to show generations how slavery
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Further in the book, Huck runs into a boat of men just past Cairo and Huck lies about Jim being his dad sick with chickenpox and the men leave. "Pooty soon I'll be a-shout'n' for joy, en I'll say, it's all on accounts o' Huck; I's a free man, en I couldn't ever ben free ef it hadn' ben for Huck; Huck done it. Jim won't ever forgit you, Huck; you's de bes' fren' Jim's ever had; en you's de ONLY fren' ole Jim's got now”( ). Huck would just leave Jim after helping him all this way, but according to him, Huck is the best friend that he never had. Huck just doesn’t understand that from Jim’s perspective he is doing the right thing and Huck will mean so much to him. Helping a slave escape the law and slavery itself is a special journey that helps people bond. “When I was fifty yards off, Jim says: Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on’y white genlman dat ever kep’ his promise to ole Jim. Well, I just felt sick, But I says, I GOT to do it-- I can’t get OUT of it” ( ). Huck was going to turn Jim in so he could travel down the river alone without worrying, but then Jim went and said that Huck was the best person that Jim had met. Huck was raised up to believe that helping slaves break the law was illegal and he thought that turning Jim in would be a good solution so he wouldn’t get caught. Jim is like Huck’s conscience; at first Huck thinks that he is doing the right thing but eventually Jim says or does something that makes him decide
Further in the book, Huck runs into a boat of men just past Cairo and Huck lies about Jim being his dad sick with chickenpox and the men leave. "Pooty soon I'll be a-shout'n' for joy, en I'll say, it's all on accounts o' Huck; I's a free man, en I couldn't ever ben free ef it hadn' ben for Huck; Huck done it. Jim won't ever forgit you, Huck; you's de bes' fren' Jim's ever had; en you's de ONLY fren' ole Jim's got now”( ). Huck would just leave Jim after helping him all this way, but according to him, Huck is the best friend that he never had. Huck just doesn’t understand that from Jim’s perspective he is doing the right thing and Huck will mean so much to him. Helping a slave escape the law and slavery itself is a special journey that helps people bond. “When I was fifty yards off, Jim says: Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on’y white genlman dat ever kep’ his promise to ole Jim. Well, I just felt sick, But I says, I GOT to do it-- I can’t get OUT of it” ( ). Huck was going to turn Jim in so he could travel down the river alone without worrying, but then Jim went and said that Huck was the best person that Jim had met. Huck was raised up to believe that helping slaves break the law was illegal and he thought that turning Jim in would be a good solution so he wouldn’t get caught. Jim is like Huck’s conscience; at first Huck thinks that he is doing the right thing but eventually Jim says or does something that makes him decide