How Did Huckleberry Finn Change Morals

In the beginning of the story, Huck treats Jim like any other slave would’ve been treated. Huck was raised in a society that dehumanized slaves as if they were below everyone else because of their skin color. The start of Huck and Jim’s friendship was put on display when Huck and Jim got separated, and Huck tried to convince Jim that he was only dreaming. However, upon catching onto his scheme, Jim became very unamused by Huck. “Then he got up slow, and walked to the wigwam, and went in there, without saying anything...It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger-but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn’t do him no more mean tricks,” (Twain 95). This is a turning point because Huck finally starts to understand that Jim is a human and just like him, he has feelings.

Although he predicts society will deem him to be "a low down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum," he prefers to be shunned and to risk punishment and shame for the sake of freeing Jim (Twain 43). Clearly, Huck's fondness for Jim is evident when Huck intends to send a letter to Miss Watson returning Jim but chooses to rip it to save him instead. Huck responds, "‘I'll right, then, I'll go to hell'- and he tore it up" (Twain 214). Huck accepts his rebellious nature and terrible fate to hell as he escapes from civilized society and into a place driven by his instincts. Jim's desire for freedom puts Huck in a moral dilemma because he must decide whether to follow his innate sense of morality or the restrictive guidelines of society.

     On Huck and Jim’s journey to Cairo, Jim begins to speak about when he is free he will go and find his children and take them from the slave owner. This rubbed Huck the wrong way; his standards of Jim had been lowered because, from Huck’s point of view, why would Jim steal his children away from a man who has done nothing to him? Huck’s conscience began to come into play and he had made up his mind: He was going to turn Jim in when they reach shore. He was sure of it until Jim began to sweet talk Huck, telling him that Huck was the only white man that had ever kept a promise to him. This comment went directly to Huck’s heart; he could not possibly

From the beginning of the story to the end, Huckleberry Finn’s morals change rather dramatically and the novel focuses largely on this. Forced to reconcile his personal feelings of friendship for an escaped slave (Jim) with what society has told him is "right," Huck learns through the course of the story to trust his moral instincts. As the story progresses, we see Huck’s character develop strong morals that eventually lead to his reconciliation.

In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is seen as a nobler person when not exposed to the hypocrisy of civilization. Huck does what he believes is right, even if this means going against common practices in the society around him. This is seen through Huck’s actions when helping his slave friend, Jim. Throughout the novel, Huck shows his friendship for Jim, especially when everyone is trying to capture him. This was also shown when Huck apologizes to Jim, and sees them both as equals and also freeing Jim after being sold.

In society, there are always diverse and controversial views on events that not everybody see’s eye to eye with. In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn where the society in the old racial days was such that African American’s were considered to be slaves and were neglected the opportunities that others had, they were not considered to be “free men.” Huck is morally correct by helping Jim escape to be reunited with his family, however, by helping him, Huck is going against the social standards in society of his time. In this novel, the main character and narrator of the story, Huckleberry Finn, is constantly trying to grasp the views of the society in which he is living in.

A novel structured on the theme of morality, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain focuses on Huck Finn’s multifaceted growing up process. Huck, through his escapades and misfortunes is obliged to endure the agonizing process from childhood to adulthood where he attains self-knowledge and discovers his own identity. Throughout the journey down the Mississippi River, Jim, Ms. Watson’s runaway slave, accompanies Huck, and is later joined by two con men. It is during this journey that a great moral crisis in Huck’s life occurs where he must make a painful decision as to whether he is going to give Jim up to the slave hunters or notify Ms. Watson about Jim’s whereabouts and assist him to

Huckleberry’s views also changed on his adventure as he grows into being his own person. He grew tolerance and a friendship with Jim, which was an abnormality of the time. Throughout the book he

Huck wanted to learn about religion, but he could never bring himself too it because of his lack of interest. He also did not believe in it because Miss Watson told him that whatever he prayed for, he would get. “But it warn’t so. [...He] tried it. [...He] tried for the hooks three or four times, but somehow [...he] couldn’t make it work” (ch3). Huck viewed the slaves in a different light. He did not just see them as objects to be owned and sold. He knew he could not do whatever he pleased with them because to him, unlike the majority of society, they were actual people with feelings and emotions. When Jim ran away from Miss Watson, even though Huck knew him to be “most ruined for a servant, because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches” (ch2), he still gave him a chance and treated him as if he were anyone else to go along with him on his adventures. He believes what he is told until he finds that it actually is not the case. Even though the rest of society wanted him to and would have turned Jim in, Huck’s kind heart told him that the people were wrong and to do what he thought was morally right. Authority was also a challenge for young Huckleberry. He disobeys his father which is a young boy’s largest role model as well as authority figure. Pap tells him to “looky here--mind

Throughout the classic novel of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain we see a lot of moral development with the main character Huckleberry Finn. Throughout the story Huck’s friendships greatly influence his moral identity. Throughout the series of events that unfold upon our main character, Huck Finn, we see huge moral leaps in the way he thinks that are influenced by that friendships he makes on his journey. He starts the book as a young minded individual with no sense morals other than what has been impressed onto him and ends up as a self empowering individual. Through the friendships he makes with Tom Sawyer, Jim, and the Duke and King we see big moral leaps with Huck.

“Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, don’t make it right”- (Mark Twain 5). In the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, author Mark Twain uses Huck’s morals as a result of all the experiences he had in his life.He sees the true society, he is a part of by encountering many different characters. These characters actually turn him into a moral-based and caring young man. Huck’s morals become as strong as they possibly can, in good ways and bad ways. He goes against society to save a man whom he never considered would be a friend for life. Huck goes against society’s morals and expresses his own morals. Due to how much Huck Finn moral changes from everyone else’s in society, he second guesses society morals from his and realized that their morals have always been wrong.

The reader’s first impression of Jim is a highly stereotypical uneducated slave living in slavery infested south. In the beginning of the novel, Jim is portrayed as a simpleton slave, who is thought of as less than human. Huck and Tom often play tricks on Jim because like the rest of the south, they see him as less than a person, and more like property. However, when Huck first finds Jim on the island and begins spending more time with him, Huck and the reader are exposed to a fuller, more human character than previously thought. Huck is quite confused at this because he’s never thought to get to know a slave like Jim before, it wouldn’t be socially acceptable to befriend a slave like Jim.

While, yes these are typically characteristics of a morally bad person, Huck did what he had to do to survive. Huckleberry lied in order to protect himself and the people around him. Huck did not lie with evil intent. He shows this in Chapter 28 when he confesses to Mary Kate what the Duke and King are doing. The Duke and King are not morally good, for they commit crimes for personal gain. The entire time Huckleberry is with the King and Duke their selfish ways rub him the wrong way. So when he finally sees his opportunity to set things straight, he takes advantage of it. Huckleberry not only hides the money from the King and Duke but also tells Mary Kate about the two men and what they are doing. Huck told the truth to Mary Kate because he knew it was the right thing to do. If Huckleberry had a bad heart, he would have let the King and Duke con whoever they wanted to and enjoy the money himself without a second thought about it, but no. Huckleberry, being the morally good individual he was, tried to get away from the King and Duke on multiple occasions. And what the King and duke did bothered Huckleberry, and he did all he could to stop them without getting himself or Jim in

The first way Huck begins to view Jim is as a slave. During the 1800s, the time period that the novel takes place in, African-Americans were viewed by many as slaves who were less than human, and nothing more. It was also generally considered both morally and religiously wrong to view an African American as anything more than this. Thus, it is no surprise that Huckleberry Finn would view the African-American Jim as a slave because of the culture he was raised in, and we can see examples of how Huck views Jim this way throughout the novel. Towards the end of the novel, Jim is sold back into slavery by the con men the king and the duke. Because of this, Huck begins to

Over time as people grow and learn new things, they develop morally. Mark Twain did not write The “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” just to entertain children with a story about a boy who goes on countless adventures. He wrote it to teach his audience a valuable life lesson. One question that may arise when pondering over this theme of Morality is How does Mark Twain show the development of Huck Finn’s moral in the novel, which other characters and what kind of techniques does he use to achieve his goal. The Widow Douglass is a large part of Huck’s development in the way he perceives religion. Jim teaches Huck what a true friendship is on their journey on the Mississippi River when he cares for him. Although Huck lives an independent life, nevertheless his morals, from the start of the novel, significantly changed by the end of novel, because of Twain’s skillful demonstration of moral development of Huck through his perception.