Why Is Huck Finn Selfish

Would Huckleberry Finn fit in on Kwajalein? No. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Huck is taken in by the Widow Douglas, and she tries to teach him good manners and to “civilize” him. Huck rebels against this and disobeys her at first but then he doesn’t mind it. Huck’s father, an abusive drunk, returns and takes Huck away from the Widow. His father beats him and locks him in their cabin and Huck decides that he is going to run away. Huck leaves on the river and finds Jim, a runaway slave and they continue on a journey together. They float down the river and meet some good people and some not so good people and get into a lot of predicaments that show their morals and their personalities. Huck is very rebellious in nature and does not like to follow rules; he is also worldly and always surrounded by crime. I believe that Huck would not fit in on Kwaj because most “Kwaj-Kids” are well behaved and sheltered, which Huck is not.
Huck runs away from home, he smokes, drinks, and breaks many other rules. When Jim is in captivity on the sawmill and Huck decides he is going to help him escape he says “for a starter I would work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think u anything worse, I would do that too” (210). Not only is he helping a slave runaway, which was not acceptable in society back then, he wants to break any other rules he can. Consequently, on Kwaj if you don’t follow the rules you are kicked off the island but most of the kids are just well behaved in general. They understand the consequences of breaking the rules but most are just good kids. Huck is just rebellious in nature which would not work on Kwaj. Huck also says how he is going to go out west so he doesn’t have to be civilized. On Kwaj there is nowhere to run from the rules and they can’t be avoided. Huck is too rebellious in nature and disobedient to fit in on