Huck Finn Influence On Society

Huck's observation and reaction to the feud of the two families has reinforced his conscience about the chaos of white society in comparison to Negroes. Huck's reaction in regards to the King and the Duke is also an important point in Huck's development as a person. Huck, having been exposed and shown the immoral and corrupt products of society has grown strong enough to work against society in the end. This development has allowed huck go approach society in a more skeptical manner and to confront and accept that society and the world is not Widow Douglas' delusional mirage. This resulted in Huck to have more confidence in his relationship with Jim and loosened his bond with society's immoral

Huck does not consciously think about Jim's impending freedom until Jim himself starts to get excited about the idea. The reader sees Huck's first objection to Jim gaining his freedom on page 66, when Huck says, "Well, I can tell you it made me all over trembly and feverish, too, to hear him, because I begun to get it through my head that he was most free-and who was to blame for it? Why, me. I could get that out of my conscience, no how nor no way." Huck is hearing the voice of society at this point, not his own. He does not see a moral dilemma with Jim being free; he is opposed to the fact that he is the one helping him. This shows Huck misunderstanding of slavery. Huck does not treat Jim like a slave when they travel together, this shows the reader that Huck views Jim as an equal in most ways. Huck sees having a slave only as owning the person, not

T.S. Elliot said, "Huck is alone: there is no more solitary figure in fiction. The fact that he has a father only emphasizes its loneliness; and he views his father with a terrifying detachment" (329). Most parents like to see their children excel in life and become productive members of society, but Pap is thinking only about himself. Instead of wishing the best for his son, he is angry because he is becoming a better person than his father. This man would be an awful influence on any child, and should be kept away from Huck.

Through the theme of rebellion against society, Huck demonstrates the importance of thinking for oneself and embodies the idea that adults are not always right. This is highlighted in his noncompliance when it comes to learning the Bible and in the decisions he makes when it comes to Jim, decisions that prove to be both illegal and dangerous. By refusing to conform to standards he does not agree with, Huck relies on his own experiences and inner conscience when it comes to making decisions. As a result, Huck is a powerful vehicle for Mark Twain’s commentary on southern society and

In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain follows protagonist, Huck Finn throughout his endeavors. This coming of age story displays Huck’s actions that lead to him running away from home. From a young age, Huck is forced to become emotionally and physically autonomous due to his father’s alcoholism. Huck runs away and begins his adventure with fugitive slave, Jim. Together they meet a diverse range of individuals and families. Mark Twain illustrates Huck Finn’s character development by exposing him to different moral systems.

Slaves are seen as merely property and aren't even expected to posses human like characteristics, personalities, or feelings. When Huck comes across Jim's emotions towards his family he is shocked. This shows that slavery had reduced African American's to inhuman objects specifically for the purpose of work, and they weren't treated as living creatures, much less human beings. When Huck witnesses Jim's "moaning and mourning" he is dumbfounded and believes that Jim was a "mighty good nigger" not only showing Huck's coming of maturity and understanding, but the ignorance displayed by the white's in regards to African

Because blacks are uneducated, he sees them as stupid and stubborn. He frequently tells stories to Jim, mainly about foreign kings and history. When Jim disagrees with Huck, Jim becomes very stubborn and refuses to listen to explanations. Huck eventually concludes, "You can't learn a nigger to argue". Jim also seems to accept that whites are naturally superior to blacks. He knows that Huck is far smarter than he is. When Tom Sawyer and Huck are planning an elaborate breakout for Jim, he allows their outrageous plan to continue because they "was white folks and knowed better than him". This mutual acceptance of whites as superior to blacks shows how deeply rooted slavery was in Southern culture. This made it very difficult for Huck to help Jim. When Tom Sawyer says he will help free Jim, Huck is very disappointed. He had never thought that Tom Sawyer, of all people, would be a "nigger stealer". Huck had always considered Tom respectable and educated, and yet Tom was prepared to condemn himself to damnation by freeing a runaway slave. This confuses Huck greatly, who no longer knows what to think about his situation with Jim. When Huck is forced to make a decision regarding slavery, he invariably sides with his emotions. Huck does not turn Jim in, despite having several chances. His best chance to do what he believes is right comes as they are rafting towards Cairo, Illinois. Huck finally

Mark Twain once described his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as “a struggle between a sound mind and a deformed conscience”. Throughout the novel, Huck wrestles with the disparity between his own developing morality and the twisted conscience of his society. In doing so, he becomes further distanced from society, both physically and mentally, eventually abandoning it in order to journey to the western frontier. By presenting the disgust of Huck, an outsider, at the state of society, Mark Twain is effectively able to critique the intolerance and hypocrisy of the Southern South. In doing so, Twain asserts that in order to exist as a truly moral being, one must escape from the chains of a diseased society.

At this point in the novel, Huck still holds the belief that blacks are essentially different from whites. Also, Huck's conscience constantly reminds him that he is an abolitionist for helping Jim run away from his owner. Huck does not see that Jim is looking for freedom just as he is.

Before the Civil War, the United States was divided between the North and the South, or the anti-slavery North, and the pro-slavery South. In the South, slavery was a common practice because the use of forced labor contributed positively to the economic growth of the region. However, in the industrialized North, where slavery was not crucial to the survival of the economy, the practice was deemed as morally and ethically abhorrent. Just after his daring escape, and shortly after he begins his voyage down the river, Huck meets his partner in crime, a runaway slave named Jim. Jim had runaway from his master because the slave had overheard that he was going to get sold to another owner, and did not want to be sold. Huck and Jim quickly become close friends and decide to continue their journey together. During the time, especially in the south, society would prohibit the tolerance of people of colour. Yet, Huck and Jim manage to overcome the standards set by southern society at the time, developing a complex relationship that would not typically be seen during the 1800’s. For instance, Huck is willing to keep quiet about information given to him by Jim when they first come across one another during the

Jim does have a major effect in Huck’s development because he taught Huck that niggers have feelings, just like the whites do. In the south, the niggers were believed to be worthless and trash. Society has shown Huck that niggers were merely property. They were not people not did they have feelings. Rather, the reason for their existence was to be sold from one slave owner to another. Although the blacks are misrepresented in the south, Jim proves to Huck that he is not property but a human being, as well. He cares for his family just like white people do. While Jim was trying to escape from slavery, he wanted to help his family escape slavery, as well. Therefore, this causes Huck to understand Jim not only cares about himself but other

When Huck and Jim were on the river, Huck did not know whether to follow his conscience and help Jim escape to the free states or do what society has told him to do and turn him into the authorities. Society had always told him that helping a slave escape slavery was a sin and that he would be damned, but ”through deep introspection, he comes to his own conclusions, unaffected by the accepted—and often hypocritical—rules and values of Southern culture (Schoenberg).” Society told Huck all his life that slaves were property and not people, but when he spent time with Jim on the river, he concluded that society was wrong and that Jim is a person not property. While going through great internal distress over the predicament, once he made his decision he stated, "All right, then, I'll go to hell,” and aided Jim with his escape. As Huck followed his conscience and helped Jim escape, he defied the social normalities of the time and did what he believed was the morally correct

In Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the young protagonist Huckleberry Finn runs away from his abusive father with Jim, a black slave. Throughout the novel, Huck encounters people that fail to understand the injustice of slavery and violence, despite their education. Although Huck lacks any substantial education, his moral values and judgment are highly developed. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses uneducated, colloquial diction and deliberate syntax to provide ironic contrast between Huck’s rudimentary level of education and profound use of moral judgment.

Huck considers Jim to be Miss Watson’s property. He has been taught that slavery is something normal, and he doesn`t think about Jim in the terms of humanity. He is even surprised when he understands that Jim escaped, because according to him black-skinned people are made to accept everything that comes with slavery: “How do you come to be here, Jim, and how’d you get here?”

Huck’s views regarding black people come into question when Huck and Jim run away together. Their experiences together let them become closer to each other and let Huck recognize Jim as a human being with real feelings. Huck starts to view Jim as a caring individual when they are on the raft. This is a scene taken from when Jim and Huck were working together on the raft and Jim was trying to protect them both from the rain, “Jim took up some of the top planks of the raft and built a snug wigwam to get under in blazing weather and rainy, and to keep the things dry. Jim made a floor for the wigwam, and raised it a foot or more above the level of the raft, so now the blankets and all the traps was out of reach of steamboat waves” (Twain, pg 64). In this part of the novel, Huck seems to be all Jim has, and Jim is also all Huck seems to have, and they work together to build a place that the waves cannot reach them. Their feeling of friendship is born through working together and protecting each other. Even though Huck and Jim are having new experiences together, Huck’s conscience is still going back and forth about the idea of freeing a slave. This quote is taken from when Huck