Everyone lies right? Some people use this immoral action by …show more content…
Huck Finn is constantly surrounded by greed from most people he comes in contact with. Furthermore, the grangerfords and the shepherdsons are two families who are in a family feud between them. They both have kids that escape from their parents to fall in love with each other. Huck narrates, “En ole Mars Saul en de boys tuck dey guns en rode up de river road for to try ketch dat young man and kill him” (113). These families feel greed because Miss Sophia and Harney Shepherdson have a desire to marry each other and a plan to escape to pursue their dreams. In this case greeds role plays a major part in the morals of Sophia and Harney. Colonel Sherburn is a store owner and the richest man in town. Huck narrates, “By and buy a proud looking man about 55 and he was a heap of the best looking man in town” (180). Colonel Sherburn is a greedy swindler who swindles people for money to pay for his lavish lifestyle. To sum up, greed can be connected back with Miss Sophia and Harney and in Colonel Sherburn's lavish lifestyle.
In conclusion, morals are the base component for a positive lifestyle. Morals such as lying, murder and greed not always bad and can sometimes be good.Huck Finn uses these morals to provide a better lifestyle for himself to see if he can change the deformed society. As Theodore Roosevelt once said, “ To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace in