Huckleberry Finn Values And Beliefs

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything” –Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was full of values and beliefs. That was one of the reasons why it was, and continues to be, banned from schools. In the book, unlikely pairs of characters were introduced that completely contradicted each other. It almost seemed unrealistic that they would be in the same scenario. Although they seemed to not work, had these pairs not been placed, the book would be surely been more lost. With each opposite personality, it highlighted the other. Making this book, in a sense, a comedy for how incredible the highlighted aspects were. Each set of characters had different beliefs and values that made their part in the story a big one.

Huck believed that Tom was his best friend, but Tom did not feel the same about Huck. Tom believed that his best friend should be someone who wanted to follow him and be like him in every aspect. Huck thought that your best friend was someone you associated with and liked to be around. Huck was also someone who liked to be seen as clever and quick witted. Tom liked to be seen as powerful and a leader. “Tom says: ‘Now we’ll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer’s Gang.’” (Page 7) In the end, when they both were trying to rescue Jim, Huck was trying his very hardest to save Jim. He wanted to make it as quick and as smooth as possible. Tom, on the other hand, wanted to make it as long and as difficult as possible by trying to mimic it to his novels. Tom also knew that Miss Watson had died and freed Jim in her will. So, they were spending all their time and strength to free an already freed

They both loved their children very much. They just showed it in very unique ways. Jim had to work hard for his family and was almost never around. Making it hard for him to get close with his family. One day, when Jim was asking his daughter to close the door and she seemed to be ignoring him, he got frustrated, stood up, and slapped her on the back of the head. He then found out she was deaf due to a case of Scarlett fever and was not ignoring him as he thought. He felt awful and ran away leaving that as his daughter’s last memory of him. Colonel Grangerford, on the other hand, thought that he must train his kids to kill people based on their last name and their ancestors past choices. The Grangerford's had been at war with the Sheperdson family for years over a lost court case. “it started thirty year ago, or som’ers along there. There was trouble ‘bout something and then a lawsuit to settle it;…” (Page 130) So his children were taught to never associate with them and to kill them if necessary. They didn't know why they were fighting. They just knew they were supposed to do