Why Is Huck Finn Good Or Bad

Would you rather wake up each morning to find that a random animal appendage has replaced your non dominant arm or permanently replace your bottom half with an animal bottom of your choice? Even though that was a really random question, it forces you to make a choice or decision. Every adult goes through life making approximately 35,000 decisions a day. Whether the decisions we make are good or bad, there is no way to avoid making them.Throughout the stories and poems we read the characters made many choices/decisions. In the story Huckleberry Finn, Huck had to make many decisions whether good or bad. Some of these include, whether or not to turn Jim in when he found him on the island, whether or not to go help Jim to escape or to continue down the river by himself when Jim got caught, and whether or not to play along with the King and the Duke’s schemes.

When Huck first got to the island he thought he was all alone. When he found Jim he was almost glad at first but then he questioned why Jim was there. When he found out that Jim had run away he was shocked. In the culture that he grew up in slavery was a norm and the thought that Jim was running away was like thinking that your dog was stolen from you. Probably the only reason why he didn’t turn Jim in right away was because Jim made him

Sometimes he made the right ones, and other times he didn’t. We all have to make decisions in our lives, and if we do make the wrong one there is sometimes a consequence to face. These choices and decisions are just a part of life and there is no way to avoid them. We have to face the consequences of bad decisions and get to enjoy the rewards of the good ones. Like Mike DeWine says, “One of the most important things that I have learned...is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our