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How Is Huck Finn Honorable

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Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn we are taken through what life was truly like back in the 1880’s. We discern through the eyes of a young 13 year old trying to find himself and develop his own opinion. We meet his unlikely friends and acquaintances and receive a glimpse of how he was affected. We are taken through his tough childhood and how this affects his life further into the novel and how he is able to overcome the obstacles that come his way. Though sometimes the authenticity and honor of Huck is challenged, there are facts in the novel that if looked at closely, there are aspects of Huck and others that make him an honorable character. Huck has developed into his own person giving him traits that made him by far the best teller of this story. Effective story tellers can come from anywhere and any time period. There are some circumstances, however, that make one person more qualified to tell these stories. The narrator’s choice as Huck in this story gives …show more content…

He is abused and left to fend for himself by his father, he is forced into a civilized world he resents being in and throughout the novel he is shown what the world is like, a cruel, dark, and unforgiving place. Most children Huck’s age, would have given up on everything and let themselves be taken over by PTSD and the hardships of the world; however, Huck bounces back like very few children his age. Somehow his childhood of fending for himself and enduring everything his father did to him, prepared him for the dangers in the book he encounters. He earns more knowledge of how to better handle situations he is in and shows remarkable promise to remember everything he has learned. Huck does mention in the book that he is affected after witnessing the murder of Buck on the Grangers farm (Twain, 103-105); however, Huck has the ability to push this to the side and make him stronger

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