Huck Finn, the protagonist, made many story altering decisions throughout the novel. Three monumental decisions are lying to the bounty hunters about Jim, tearing up the letter to Miss Watson about Jim and himself, and hiding the gold the duke and the king conned out of the Wilks. Two of the choices by Huck decide the fate and freedom of a human being, Jim, making them very powerful decisions that he has to make. Huck often makes these decisions rashly but they turn out to work very well for him. The three important decisions and why and how he made them show deeply how Huck Finn thinks and feels.

One of Huck's major decisions not involving Jim is turning his back on the king and the duke, by hiding the Wilks gold. Huck more or less goes along with the duke and the king's plans until this one because of how nice the Wilks girls are to him. Huck had many choices and could have stuck with the duke and the king but changes his mind after Mary Jane and Susan are so nice to him and scold Joanna for questioning him. After Mary Jane scolds her Huck says to himself " this is the girl I'm letting that old reptile rob of her money!" (169). Mar

Another major decision by Huck about Jim's freedom is Huck deciding to rip up the letter he was going to write to Miss Watson about where Jim is being held until the reward is paid.. Huck decides to write the letter in chapter thirty-one after he discovers that Jim has been sold by the king and the duke for money. Huck can not think of a plan to get Jim free and has no idea where Jim is so he says to himself "Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he'd got to be a slave, and so I'd better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Watson where he was" (204). Huck then thinks that if Jim is given back to Miss Watson he will be treated badly or sold down the river again for being ungrateful and trying to run away. He also thinks that people will look at him badly for trying to help a slave run away. Huck is then "hit by the hand of Providence" (204). and believes that Jim was taken and sold because it is God's way of saying that he will not allow people who help slaves to run away go unpunished. God watching over him makes Huck so scared that he decides to pray and try to become a good person. Huck tries to pray to become a good person, but knows that he will and does not want to become one, and he can not pray a lie. So Huck decides to write the letter then see if he can pray, and he felt "light as a feather right straight off" (205). Huck then writes the letter to Miss Watson explaining about where Jim is and immediately feels "good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now" (206). Huck then goes on thinking about all the good times he had with Jim and how he said he was "the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he's got now;" (206). Huck is then at the climax of his decision, he knows he is the only person who can help Jim, who has been so nice to him all along and decides that "All right, then, I'll go to hell"(206).

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Approximate Word count = 1363
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)