Why Did Huck Decide To Hide Money From The King And The Duke

Why did Huck decide to hide the money from the King and Duke? The novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Mark Twain and was published in 1884. In the novel, the main character Huckleberry Finn, runs away and is joined by his friend Jim. One night while the two are on a raft floating down a river, two strangers ask to jump on because they are being chased after. These two older men try to convince Huck and Jim that they are royalty and so the boys start referring to them as the King and the Duke. The four of them share a raft and float down a river and make frequent stops at the towns they come across. Once they get to these town the King and the Duke find ways to defraud people to get money. They stop at a town and the King pretends to be the brother of a man that had just died in an attempt to inherit money. Huck overhears the King and the Duke develop a plan to steal $6,000 and skip town before they get caught,

Huck has been following the orders of whatever the King and Duke have told him to do and he has never gone against their wishes, so why did he this time? In chapter twenty-six, Huck gets into an argument with one of the family members about England. One by one, other family members come to Huck’s defense. After they stand up for him Huck thinks “I says to myself, this is another one that I’m letting him rob her of her money… I felt so ornery and low down and mean, that I says to myself, My mind’s made up; I’ll hive that money for them or bust” (Twain 211). The longer Huck stays with this family the more he believes that stealing money from them is wrong. Ever since the King and the Duke showed up, Huck has been doing whatever they tell him to, including scheme with them. This family has shows a lot of kindness to Huck even though he is just a stranger, and he begins to realize that stealing from them is