Huckleberry Finn Morality

Mark Twain uses the characterization of Huck as someone who does not really condemn the morality and concern of society as a tool to ultimately condemn this moral order in several ways. We see Huck questioning the morals of society in the following four scenes; the search team scene, the fog scene, and the final moral scene. Huck contemplates whether or not he should turn in Jim and, therefore, does not now whether he should abide by society’s rules or his personal morals. Although society views slaves as property, Huck views Jim as a fellow human being and friend. We can see just how much Huck contemplates as to whether Jim is just property or an actual friend, the more he thought about it “the more wicked and low-down and ornery [he] got to feeling”(214). According to society a “nigger goes to everlasting fire”(214), clearly Huck disagrees with that became he says that this “made [him] shiver”(214). In this scene Huck prayer for Jim, he truly believes that Jim is just Miss.Watsons property, but an actual person who has the same feelings and emotions as he. Huck seems to be developing morality as the book progresses. The more time that Huck spends with Jim that more his views change on

In this scene, Tom has been shot in the leg and is in need of a doctor but both of the boys tell Jim that it is too risky to go and find a doctor, if they do, Jim will inevitably get caught. Jim tells huck that if the situation was flipped they would do the same for him. It is at this point that Huck truly understood that his morals were the right morals. Jim starts to unravel the ropes to the canoe, but Huck does not let him go and get a doctor. Huck makes a reference after Jim's decision that he “was white inside”(274). Huck implies that even though Jim is black he is the same as Huck and Tom, and Jim would do anything for them because they risked their lives to free