Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn :: Adventures Huckleberry Huck Finn Essays

Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnIn Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is a someone to be admired. His caring attitudes and blunt securey prove that he is a great person. Although Huck can be seen lying, cheating and stealing, he does these amours out of want and as a solvent of his poor upbringing. These negative attributes dont affect his overall high character. Huck Finn has many great aspects, but he is fallible and capable of doing wrong. He often lies, cheats, and steals simply to survive and get out of trouble. Huck also displays this bad behavior as a result of his poor upbringing. Much of this behavior was learned from his father, as evidenced in the following passage. Pap always said it warnt no deterioration to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time but the widow said it warnt anything but a soft appellation for stealing, and no decent body would do it (65). It is this learned behavior, his desire to survi ve and get out of jams, and societys negative influences, such as its mint that slavery is right, that motivates him in doing wrong. Although Huck can sometimes be labeled as a miscreant, he is actually a very honest person. In a literal sense, Huck doesnt always exhibit honest behavior. However, it is Hucks realistic and slightly naive view of society that is honest--he sees things for what they authentically are. One example of this honesty occurs when Huck helps Jim to freedom. While he doesnt view his own actions as honorable, the reader can infer that they are. Huck feels nefarious for his role in Jims escape, knowing that he was doing something society would have scorned. He says, I couldnt get it out of my conscience, no how nor no way. It got to trouble me so I couldnt rest I couldnt stay still in one place. It hadnt ever come home to me before, what this thing was that I was doing. But now it did and it stayed with me, and scorched me more and more...I got to feeling so mean and miserable I most wished I was dead (88).Huck is honest with himself and his feelings.