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In the novel Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, Almost every character lies one way or another. Tom Sawyer lies to portray his imagination, Huck lies about his family, and The King and Duke use lies to profit financially. In the novel Huckleberry Finn Tom sawyer, a young boy with a vivid imagination, lies about the things he and his "gang" but only uses his imagination. Tom says, "We are highwaymen, we stop stage and carriages on the road, with masks, and kill people and take their watches and money" (10). Tom's lies don't hurt anyone but little Tommy Barnes, who has a tendency to be timid anyway, Huck says " Little Timmy Barnes was sleep now, and when they waked him up he was scared, and cried, and he said he wanted to go home to his ma, and didn't want to be a robber anymore. So they all made fun of him and called him a crybaby" (11). Tom's lies are very "white" and only have a negative result on one person. Tom's lies are imaginative but Huck's lies are deceptive. For example, Huck tells the Grangerfords, "Its me...
Printer by trade; do a little in patent medicines; theater actor tragedy, you know; take a turn to mesmerism and phrenology when there's a chance; teach singing-geography school for a change; sling a lecture sometimes- oh, I do lots of things, most anything that comes handy, so it aint work" (118). Tom, Huck, and Duke and King all lie but Mark Twain portrays some lies as more cruel than others. The Duke and King come across as the worst and least moral. Tom is harmless, along with Huck. Nonetheless the lies in this novel do not get the liar any better off. So therefore Mark Twain's opinion on lies is that despite the reason, lies are never for good. The Duck and King lie about their whole personal realities. Neither of the two ever disclose their true identities, and lie, cheat, steal, and plunder to only benefit themselves. For example, The Duke says that he is a George Jackson. Sir...I fell overboard off of the steamboat" (95). Then Huck tells the Grangerfords, "Pap and me and all the family was living on a little farm down in the bottom of Arkansas, and my
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