Huck Finn's Attitude Towards Lie

In the middle of the book, Huck starts to distinguish what is the right thing to do. He starts to think if all the things he was doing before with Jim and Tom were too mean and stupid to do. One specific example is when he decides to steal the money that the king and duke have, “I got to steal that money somehow; and I got to steal it some way that they wont suspicion I done it." (Twain 133) After Huck stole the money Huck and Jim didn’t feel bad at all, and knew that they did the right thing after all. He learns that not everyone can be scammed on, that the real life is important and that you can’t do anything stupid like that. He sees eye to eye with Jim and realizes that he cant have someone taken advantage of just because of their

Huck shows his growth through his ability to understand that their religious beliefs are in conflict with their own actions. Huck learns even more about his own morals during his encounter with the King and the Duke. The King and the Duke lie about being the Wilks brothers in order to get money. For Huck, they cross the line when they lie to Mary Jane. Huck watches them cry for

I feel that there was much character development in these certain chapters. One of the most meaningful quotes in this section in the novel occurs at the end of chapter 23, when Huck and Jim have their conversation. Huck is clever enough to assume what Jim is upset about, displaying Huck’s ability to be in touch with emotions. The quote reads, “I knowed what it was about. He was thinking about his wife and his children, away up yonder, and he was low and homesick; because he hadn’t ever been away from home before in his life; and I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their’n” (Pg. 156).This quote also causes me to realize how much Huck truly develops as a character throughout the novel because I don't believe he would say something like this before. Although the small size of the quote, it carries much meaning, along with displaying Huck’s consideration for a friend like Jim. It also demonstrates Huck’s emotional side with is not shown very much in the novel. Huck knows more than what it seems like he would, and he does not fail to prove that. I think that a life of abuse and heartbreak caused for him to bottle up his feelings and keep them hidden, but like everyone else, he still has feelings. This quote also displays the certain connection that Jim and Huck have between each other, the reason being they had become so close. In my personal opinion, all I think he wants is someone to take care

Huck’s conscience does not bother him when he lies because he believes it never hurts them and no one, at least in his memory, were hurt from his lies. However, Huck feels bad when he lies to Mary Jane, whom he admires a lot.

“If I get away, I sha’n’t be here,” I says, “to prove these rapscallions ain’t your uncles, and I couldn’t do it if I was here”. (142). When Huck tells Mary Jane the truth about the duke and the king he feels better about himself. Once he proves to Mary Jane that the duke and the king are frauds he tells her to leave town for a few days. “I got to steal that money somehow; and I got to steal it someway that they won’t suspicion that i done it”.

In the instance where Huck dresses up like a girl and speaks with the farmer's wife in an effort to find out what is being said about their situation, the information that he gets ultimately saves them from the capture of a search party. Even though he is caught in the first lie and it is discovered that he is actually a young boy rather than a girl, Huck manages to convince the woman that he is simply a run away. He quickly creates a new and better lie, and she has no idea about his true identity. In this instance of lies that Huck tells, there is no victim. Huck learns crucial information that he would have never gotten through honesty, and with this information he is able to continue on his journey with Jim.

Is it wrong to tell a child that Santa exists? Huck Finn would say that it isn't. When is necessary to lie? At what point would would a lie become hurtful? Should one ever lie? These are questions that Mark Twain addresses in his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In the novel, Huck Finn is a child who is gifted with a great skill of lying. However, throughout the novel, he begins to question when exactly he should use this skill. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck eventually learns that his skill of lying should only be used for one reason: to retaliate against the ideas of convention.

Growing up before the civil war in the midst of slavery, Huck felt forced to be dishonest about his identity many times in order to protect himself and Jim, a runaway slave. The author, Mark Twain, used his interactions with characters in order to show that when he was dishonest, it led him to do the right thing, even though he had to lie to do so. There were many instances where Huck was challenged to do what society thought

Huck feels that Mary Jane is very nice and so he should not let the two frauds, the King and Duke, take all of their money. “I say to myself, this is a girl that i'm letting that old reptle rob her of her money”(132). Hucks believe it not right to let the two fraud take all the money from the girls and so he was deciding rather to go tell the truth to Mary and her sisters. Hucks feels bad for not saying anything and letting the King and the Duke take their money. “And when she got through, they all jest laid themselves out to make me feel at home and know I was amongst friends”(132). Huck made his mind up to get the money for the girls. Here, Twain thinks it is not right to not tell the truth and let someone go into trouble. Huck’s decision in telling Mary Jane the truth and to lie to the King and the Duke shows how Twain is saying it is not right to watch a person take advantage of someone. It showing that telling the truth is better than lying because not telling the truth can put a person in danger. Huck is thinking about whether he should tell Mary Jane because the truth because the truth is always better and safer than

Huck rejects lying early in the novel, a testament to his successful training bestowed upon him by the Widow Douglass and other townspeople. Huck begins the story by lecturing the

Huck tells a significant amount of lies to umpteen amount of people, however he believes that he is doing it for the favorable. After Huck faked his own death, he obligated to produce a fake identity, At first, when Huck tells us his name is Mary, I worried that he might obtain entanglement, however he spoke himself by telling the woman that “her” middle name was Mary. Huck took a massive risk by traveling to the woman’s house dressed as a girl, when he knew nothing on how to act like one. The woman, who later revealed herself as Mrs. Judith Loftus, tells George Peters (Huck’s new fake name) that he should learn how to thread a needle before pretending to act like a girl. Huck is Jim's only friend and he would execute anything to get him out of trouble.

This quotation reveals the extreme measures Huck has to go to in order to escape his father’s abuse. Huck’s having to resort to faking his own murder shows the reader how horrible the situation was. The lesson of escaping harmful situations is reinforced with a drastic example of a character fleeing from unhealthy circumstances. The theme of escape and the lesson that one should escape harmful situations are seen when Huck is abused by Pap and, after deciding he has had enough of the abuse, makes and carries out an extreme plan of escape, going so far as faking his own

In the novel by Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the reader comes to know Huck as a boy who often likes to lie mostly in order to get himself out of trouble. Huck’s greatest lie of all was when he decided that it was morally right to conceal the truth in a world that was morally wrong. He had chosen to do what was right according to his conscience rather than do what was socially and legally right at the time. He would rather his soul burn in hell than to send his friend back to the cruel and unjust world of slavery. Huck knows his best friend Jim was a man and had feelings just like him.

His whole life has been taught that “niggers” are property and are not meant to be free but In his heart he knew helping Jim was the right thing to do, no matter what anybody else says. “both Huck and Jim are depicted as characters who are capable of learning from their own mistakes, empathizing with others, and acting on the behalf of others” (Evans). As the journey down the river continues they run into two con men. These men pretend to be the Wilks brothers in order to rob this family of all of their possessions. Huck couldn’t see them do this poor family wrong. He spends some time really contemplating telling one of the girls, Mary Jane, the truth about these liars (Twain 175). He knows inside that it is the right thing to do but he doesn’t want to put himself at risk. He plans out every little detail of how he is going to tell her and how he is going to expose these men (Twain 175-178). His actions result from his sympathy for others and his conscience and show major growth as the story continues.

Often times Huck found himself in a moral dilemma on whether to do what society instilled in him or to do what he thinks should be done. Huck betrayed those feelings of “what society would want” him to do in order to be a good friend to Jim, putting his own self up at risk again for Jim. Jim was being held captive by Huck’s current host and Huck, abandoning his duties of his superior race and being a good Christian, as the Widow called it Huck suddenly has an epiphany “All right then, I'll go to hell!” as he goes to “steal Jim out of slavery” (212). Seeing the situation through Huck’s perspective it gives the reader every little detail that goes into his thought process in his decision making. These types of actions were considered wrong by society at that time and place but Huck sets that all aside and does what he feels is the right thing. Most of the time Huck has to think on his feet making the decision making process even more difficult, like the time when Huck was going to give Jim up as a runaway slave. “Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on, s’pose you’d ‘a’ done right and give Jim up, would you feel better than what you do now? No, says I, I’d feel bad---I’d feel just the same way I do now” (91). Even through Huck’s dialect you can see him argue with himself on what the right thing to is, but he throws out what society would do and does what his heart tells him. Through Huck arguing