Huckleberry Finn, narrator and main character in the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is easily one of America's best-loved fictional characters. As our guide on a journey through both the bowels of humanity and our own conscience, he undoubtedly wise beyond his years. In fact it is his lack of age that renders him so wise. Through youthful ignorance he is able to escape the curse of stupidity and prejudice, something given to mostly everybody from that era by society itself. Huck is every American's inner child.
Huck has practically no sense of humor; in fact he is almost completely literal mind. This is shown time and time again when he fails to see the wit in many of his co-characters' jokes. For example he does not even admit a chuckle when told the age-old joke about where Moses was when the lights went out (... in the dark!). Also this gullibility leads him to believe that it is impossible for the drunk in the circus to be, in reality, a highly trained acrobat an
Huck Finn is a man for others. He is sympathetic for even the most heinous murderers. He displays this quality when he attempts to save the cutthroats on board of the sinking Walter Scott. Also his sympathy is shown when he saves the Duke and the King from a mob and also feels sorry for them when they are tarred and feathered, despite the harm they brought him. It is this quality too that gives him much internal turmoil. He often finds himself debunking his own morals and conscience. But this is one of the things that make Huck so great. Instead of conforming to the standards of racism in society, he in his heart knows the corruption and hypocrisy of slavery in a democratic country. It is this sympathy that allows him to grow so close to his spiritual father; Jim.
d part of a scheme to fool the audience. But this characteristic is not necessarily a negative one. It makes him the ideal narrator for the story. Because he is so literal minded he rarely exaggerates or embellishes the story so we can rest assur
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