Huck's Struggle In The Time Of Slavery

Third, Twain uses Huck’s struggle to show the citizen’s thought process in the time of slavery. Huck worries that he and Jim are going to get caught: “It froze me to hear such talk” (Twain 57). Huck worries that he is doing the wrong thing by helping Jim escape slavery. What Huck does not realize is that he has chosen the morally correct solution. He is going against everything Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas ever taught him. In another literary critique, the author states that “Huck knows that there can be no degrees of condemnation; he therefore expects to suffer the maximum penalty” (Yates 10). Huck believes that he is going to go to hell for helping Jim escape, which to him is the maximum penalty. He has been taught that there is a heaven