Huckleberry Finn Morality

Huck, a teenage boy seeking refuge with a runaway slave, Jim, travels down the Mississippi River while learning a great deal about himself and the world that exists around him. As a young and impressionable boy, Huck’s advanced intellect helps discover and change his own morals to fit what he sees as right, despite the doctrine that he had been taught. Huck struggles to understand the incontinuety between what he is taught about black people and what he actually sees. During his travels, Huck encounters many situations that help him to understand the ugliness of civilization and the injustice that exists unchallenged in society. By the end of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck has reassessed what he cares about and makes the decision to escape from society and start over out west. Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck struggles to understand his own morals but in the end he finally understands.

Despite second-class position in society Jim and Huck act as equals on the raft. The runaway slave’s affection for Huck helps him to enlighten Huck and teach him that black people should not be treated as lesser beings. Jim treats Huck like the adolescent he is and protects him from seeing his real father, “pap,” dead body,

‘It’s a dead man. Yes, indeedy; naked,too. He’s ben shot in de back. I reck’n he’s ben dead two er three days. Come in, Huck, but doan’ look at his face--it’s too