Examples Of Morality In Huckleberry Finn

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Morality in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Within the 1885 novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, there are many underlying themes. One such theme is Huck’s inner struggle between turning the runaway slave, Jim, in and keeping him hidden. Huck believes that by aiding Jim, he is breaking moral, as well as real, laws. As readers, we are aware that Huck is morally correct in his decision to aid Jim in escape. However, Huck does not know this and he has been taught from a young age that what he is doing is wrong. Despite teachings from many different sources, each with their own significance to Huck, that he is sinning, he manages to follow his heart and keep Jim along. One example of Huck’s inner morals getting the better …show more content…

He is able to ignore a message driven into him from childhood, the evil of free slaves, and do the right thing. We see this in Chapter 16, page 66 when Huck says, “Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom. 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.” From here, he turns this feeling around and on page 69, “They went off, and I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low, because I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it warn't no use for me to try to learn to do right; a body that don't get started right when he's little, ain't got no show- when the pinch comes there ain't nothing to back him up and keep him to his work, and so he gets beat. Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on- s'pose you'd a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than what you do now? No, says I, I'd feel bad- I'd feel just the same way I do now. Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? I was stuck. I couldn't answer that. So I reckoned I wouldn't bother no more about it, but after this always do whichever comes handiest at the time.” This just shows how well Huck is at being a

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