The development of huck and his moral growth throughout the novel is show in many episodes. Which makes this book nothing short of cultural, educational and enlightening.With this very popular book many people have trouble looking past the controversial ways mark twain went about teaching Hucks lessons. This book remains controversial and popular because of the way twain uses racism as a forefront for hucks growth through this episodic novel.
Huck spends the entirety of the book trying to discover who he is and what he believes In this search for who he is he has many people and things to look up to and possibly supersede, does he follow: religion, or follow his gut instincts? Obey his father, or obey the Widow? Listen to Tom, or listen …show more content…
“ Miss Watson's big nig*er, named Jim...When we was ten feet of tom whispered to me, and wanted to tie Jim to the tree” as huck is still on his journey of self discovery at this point in the book he is still very childish and incapable of voicing his opinions and creating his own ideas, he spend majority of this first episode focused on tom and how he can be like him. For a while he is stuck in this childish state that needs to be left behind. As the book goes on the childish huck continues to do the same thing but is seen to become more aware of the consequences to his actions. “I went to the cavern to get some, and found a rattlesnake in there. I killed him, and curled him up on the foot of Jim’s blanket, ever so natural, thinking there’d be some fun when Jim found him there. Well, by night I forgot all about the snake, and when Jim flung himself down on the blanket while I struck a light the snake’s mate was there, and bit him” after this incident huck promises to never …show more content…
Later when him and Jim encounter two con me we see huck not only have another point of growth, we see a start of a moral compass being formed, as before him and tom planned of being savage bandits in this chapter huck defends the family who is getting conned by returning the money in efforts to do right by the people who stuffed such a terrible loss. . I run in the parlor and took a swift look around, and the only place I see to hide the bag was in the coffin. “The lid was shoved along about a foot, showing the dead man’s face down in there, with a wet cloth over it, and his shroud on. I tucked the money-bag in under the lid, just down beyond where his hands was crossed, which made me creep, they was so cold, and then I run back across the room and in behind the door.” huck is learning on his journey what's right and wrong but the next episode would be one of the hardest internal conflicts through the whole story, huck is debating whether or not to write to Miss Watson about jim and have him go back into slavery or go try to find Him and help him continue to fight for his freedom.”The Widow Douglas she took me
Huck spends the entirety of the book trying to discover who he is and what he believes In this search for who he is he has many people and things to look up to and possibly supersede, does he follow: religion, or follow his gut instincts? Obey his father, or obey the Widow? Listen to Tom, or listen …show more content…
“ Miss Watson's big nig*er, named Jim...When we was ten feet of tom whispered to me, and wanted to tie Jim to the tree” as huck is still on his journey of self discovery at this point in the book he is still very childish and incapable of voicing his opinions and creating his own ideas, he spend majority of this first episode focused on tom and how he can be like him. For a while he is stuck in this childish state that needs to be left behind. As the book goes on the childish huck continues to do the same thing but is seen to become more aware of the consequences to his actions. “I went to the cavern to get some, and found a rattlesnake in there. I killed him, and curled him up on the foot of Jim’s blanket, ever so natural, thinking there’d be some fun when Jim found him there. Well, by night I forgot all about the snake, and when Jim flung himself down on the blanket while I struck a light the snake’s mate was there, and bit him” after this incident huck promises to never …show more content…
Later when him and Jim encounter two con me we see huck not only have another point of growth, we see a start of a moral compass being formed, as before him and tom planned of being savage bandits in this chapter huck defends the family who is getting conned by returning the money in efforts to do right by the people who stuffed such a terrible loss. . I run in the parlor and took a swift look around, and the only place I see to hide the bag was in the coffin. “The lid was shoved along about a foot, showing the dead man’s face down in there, with a wet cloth over it, and his shroud on. I tucked the money-bag in under the lid, just down beyond where his hands was crossed, which made me creep, they was so cold, and then I run back across the room and in behind the door.” huck is learning on his journey what's right and wrong but the next episode would be one of the hardest internal conflicts through the whole story, huck is debating whether or not to write to Miss Watson about jim and have him go back into slavery or go try to find Him and help him continue to fight for his freedom.”The Widow Douglas she took me