Huckleberry Finn Argumentative Essay

“ Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot” said Mark Twain, Author of the famous novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn is a young boy who has no family. His father is drunk and abusive and his mother died when he was little. Huckleberry Finn is a realist. He only focuses on what in front of him. In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain threatens the readers with death if they find a moral, however, there is many hidden morals and values in the story. The ones that stood out are to Never judge a book by its cover, A person should always stay true to who they are, and people should

This moral is shown in the story by each character. Starting with Huckleberry Finn, on the outside, he represents the epitome of a country bumpkin but he is very considerate and is always looking to help someone. “But you know Ed he was running for his freedom, and you could ‘a’ paddled ashore and told somebody”(Twain 90). In this quote, Huckleberry explains that he feels guilty about helping Jim escape from Miss Watson, but then he changes his mind because he knows that he is doing the right thing. Other characters that should not be judged based on what they look like are The Duke and the Dauphin. On the outside they look sophisticated and are dressed proper, but they are low down, dirty con men that trick people out of their money. “He had an old long-tailed blue jeans coat with slick brass buttons flung over his arms, and both of them had big, fat, ratty-looking carpet-bags” (Twain 123). They Pretended to be doctors, actors, missionary, and fortune tellers to trick people out of their money. The character Jim is also judged by his outside appearance. Jim is the slave owned by Miss Watson. On the outside everyone thinks of him as just a slave and he wears raggedy clothing because that is all he has. Jim is a very happy and caring person. He represents Huck's father figure in the story. “Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on'y white genlman dat ever kep' his promise to ole Jim"(Twain 93). Jim loves huck and treats him like a son. The moral

They are times to be serious and times to let you child side run free. The Novel represents the childishness in life. Huck Finn’s best friend Tom Sawyer believes in all mythical. Tom Sawyer is a romantic. "Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's Gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath, and write his name in blood" (Twain 9). Tom Sawyer loves to come up with fake situations and act like they are real. The character Huck Finn is also very childish. This book brings out the child side in everyone. “found an old tin washpan, and stopped up the holes as well as we could, to bake the pie in, and took it down cellar and stole it full of flour and started for breakfast, and found a couple of shingle-nails that Tom said would be handy for a prisoner to scrabble his name and sorrows on the dungeon walls with, and dropped one of them in Aunt Sally's apron-pocket which was hanging on a chair, and t'other we stuck in the band of Uncle Silas's hat” (Twain 252). Tom and Huck are acting like children when they play pranks on Sally and Silas. It is always good for people to let their child side run free, and this book shows