Morality In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.” – George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, a young boy in Hannibal, Missouri has many adventures and downfalls. With the challenge that society cannot accept the idea of free slavery, everybody wanting him to be “sivilized”, and seeing the difference between the right and wrong thing; Huck Finn has to get through that to help his friends and find his right state of mind. Huck meets many people and obstacles throughout the novel that challenge and change his morality and the way he sees the world, eventually changing for the good. In the midst of living in the southern states during the

In a conversation with the duke, Huck says: “Well, for the next day or two we had considerable trouble, because people was always coming out in skiffs and trying to take Jim away from me, saying they believed he was a runaway nigger. We don’t run day-times no more, now; nights they don’t bother us” (Twain 95). Huck is trying to cover up the fact that Jim is a runaway slave, and that they are trying to escape. Both Jim and Huck wanted no one to know that, I believe they suspected early on that the duke and the king were cons. This is a major step up for Huck, even though he is lying to get out of something; he is doing it for the right reason this time. He truly believes he is doing something right, even though it may seem

Huck then immediately decides to head west. “But I reckon I got to light out of the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before” (Twain 220). He did not want to succumb to religion, clean clothes, or anything of that sort. The “Territory”, the unsettled west of the United States, would offer Huck the perfect setting of the not yet “sivilized” world. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells a tale of a young boy who is trying to find his way in his life. The story begins with Huck Finn up to his ways, trying not to conform to society’s ways, attempting to become his own self. Throughout Huck’s journey to eventually becoming a “loner”, per se, he had gone through many trials and tribulations. There are many ways one could interpret the journey Huck takes with his mind and mortality. In the novel, he faces obstacles that truly tested him, but seeing how his action can change people’s destiny, his morality changes for the