Huck Finn's Values And Moral In The Course Of Huckleberry Finn

To begin with, there are many shapes and twists that make Huck Finn have a questionable sense of his own morality throughout the course of this novel. First, Huck Finn, in the beginning of the novel, does not truly have his own sense of making his own decisions until Tom Sawyer is out of the picture. Huck, in many ways, gets abducted by his father who has a serious problem with alcohol and forces Huck to live with him despite Huck already having a home he lives at with Miss Watson, who takes very good care of him. Secondly, once Huck finds a way to leave his father successfully he runs into Jim, the runaway slave that Miss Watson owned, on the river at one of his first stops. Huck knows that befriending a slave and taking him on his journey

He struggles with making his own choices and cannot seem to understand whether if the choices he makes are the right ones or the wrong ones. Huck Finn indeed does, in most individuals eyes, make the right morally sound choices to help the ones in need of assistance, such as Jim who he becomes very close with throughout the course of the novel. Choices such as running away from his father, who would abuse and force Huck do things that he shouldn’t of have to do, was the right thing to do. If Huck would have stayed, his father would have forced viewpoints and wrong ideas upon him to where Huck would not have had the option of making up his own mind. Therefore, once he escapes, Huck’s own choices begin which inevitably makes things harder than he thought on himself by doing so. If Tom Sawyer was around the whole time, Huck Finn’s choices and the complete track of this novel would have had a much different approach and would have been close to a train wreck due to Tom Sawyer’s way of thinking. Huck would mostly have done things he wouldn’t have agreed with later on if he let it up to Tom to make all the decisions and develop the wrong courses of action to take. One might say that Huck is a hero in the choices he had to make alone on this journey across the Mississippi

Huck successfully freed himself of his bizarre father’s way of life by making the choice of staying or leaving. He aided a helpless slave (Jim) that he befriends and watches after to keep him from getting captured and out of the torment of slavery. Last but not least, Huck saves Jim and aids him in his escape from captivity with the help of the notorious fictional book reader Tom Sawyer. All in all, Huck Finn did indeed tackle with these hard choices successfully and did only what he thought was the right thing to do, which in fact was the rightly justified, morally fit decisions to