How Is Huck Finn Morally Right And Wrong
“ The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it,” (Twain 8). What is morally right and wrong is a fine line between the cultures, religions, and beliefs of different lifestyles. Without guidance and direction its even harder to decipher what is morally right and wrong, but through the experiences of life one can develop the skills needed to mature and shape them; when a boy becomes a man.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written before The Civil War, by Mark Twain (AKA) Samuel Clemens, was written in Hartford Connecticut, and Elmira New York in 1876 to 1883. Mark Twain’s writings often show life lessons being told through characters and are very …show more content…
It is clear that these con men’s lies are terrible, for the fate of the innocent people that they have hurt. Meanwhile, Huck himself tells a number of lies and even cons a few people himself; most impressionable the slave-hunters, to whom he comes up with a story about a smallpox outbreak in order to protect Jim. From the time Huck meets him on Jackson’s island until the end of the novel, Jim spouts a wide variety of superstitions and wise tales. Where Jim initially appears stubborn to believe any of these kinds of signs and omens, shifts to show that many of his beliefs do indeed have some basis in superstitions and the foretelling of events to arise. Jim played a big part in the maturing and development of Huck as a person, he became a father figure for Huck since his father, the town drunk, was never around to give him the parental support and nurturing that all children should have. Jim taught Huck to look past the racism that took place in the south and see him as a person not as a slave, Twain, teaching the reader about equality and that people are people no matter their skin color and just because it may be believed to be right in society doesn’t mean that it is morally right. “Just because you’re taught that something is right and everyone believes it’s right, it don't make it right,” (Twain). While Huck plans to head west at the end of the novel in order to escape longer civilizing, he is trying to detour more than regular baths and mandatory school
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written before The Civil War, by Mark Twain (AKA) Samuel Clemens, was written in Hartford Connecticut, and Elmira New York in 1876 to 1883. Mark Twain’s writings often show life lessons being told through characters and are very …show more content…
It is clear that these con men’s lies are terrible, for the fate of the innocent people that they have hurt. Meanwhile, Huck himself tells a number of lies and even cons a few people himself; most impressionable the slave-hunters, to whom he comes up with a story about a smallpox outbreak in order to protect Jim. From the time Huck meets him on Jackson’s island until the end of the novel, Jim spouts a wide variety of superstitions and wise tales. Where Jim initially appears stubborn to believe any of these kinds of signs and omens, shifts to show that many of his beliefs do indeed have some basis in superstitions and the foretelling of events to arise. Jim played a big part in the maturing and development of Huck as a person, he became a father figure for Huck since his father, the town drunk, was never around to give him the parental support and nurturing that all children should have. Jim taught Huck to look past the racism that took place in the south and see him as a person not as a slave, Twain, teaching the reader about equality and that people are people no matter their skin color and just because it may be believed to be right in society doesn’t mean that it is morally right. “Just because you’re taught that something is right and everyone believes it’s right, it don't make it right,” (Twain). While Huck plans to head west at the end of the novel in order to escape longer civilizing, he is trying to detour more than regular baths and mandatory school