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Throughout the pages of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck

fights with two distinct voices. One is siding with popular opinion, saying Huck

should turn Jim in, and the other is realizing the wrong in turning his friend in, not

viewing Jim as a slave. Twain wants the reader to see the moral difficulty Huck is

going through, and what slavery can do to a person who is pure like Huck.

Huck does not think about Jim's impending freedom until Jim himself

starts to get excited about the idea. Huck's first objection to Jim is gaining his

freedom, when Huck says, "Well, I can tell you it made me all over trembly and

feverish, too, to hear him, because I begun to get it through my head that he was

most free-and who was to blame for it? Why, me. I could get that out of my

consciounce, no how nor no way." I think that that was the popular opinion not his

own. Huck did not realize at this point that he was just falling other peoples values

at this time. Huck totally misunderstood slavery. Huck does not treat Jim like a

slave when they traveled together, Huck treated Jim as a friend.

Huck saw having a slave only as owning the person. Not actual

behind Huck's lie to do whatever "come handiest at the time" because the reader

escape. Miss Watson's view is totally different from than Huck's perspective. Huck

words of Mark Twain. The story had many childlike characteristics but yet delt

morals were bold for his time and I respect him in the highest revere for his

I thought that the tale of Huck Finn was very well told through the

same?" Even though these are Huck's thoughts, the reader knows this was Huck's

Jim prove the reader correct in his assumption. Evan if Huck does not know it he

Approximate Word count = 795
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Politics

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