Why Is It Good To Lie In Huckleberry Finn

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

Huckleberry Finn is a liar throughout the whole novel but unlike other characters, his lies seem justified and moral to the reader because they are meant to protect himself and Jim and are not meant to hurt anybody.

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.

I ain’t agoing to tell, and I ain’t agoing back there anyways” (Twain 52). He was making a point that he is not going to bow out to society. Huck does not call out Jim because he believes that the majority of Jim’s life has been wasted due to inhumane treatment. Twain is also displaying how, without moving away from society 's norms, Huck would have never been strong enough to free Jim. When Huck saw a mob of townspeople tarring and feathering the Duke and the King Huck felt bad and gushed, "Well, it made me sick to see it; and I was sorry for them poor pitiful rascals, it seemed like I couldn 't ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cruel to one another”(193). Huck’s coming of age in a moral sense occurs because of how he is empathizing with people who have been treated harshly.

As with most works of literature Huck berry it's a small boy plot create a story Lie basically means “an intentionally false statement and for most, lying is bad. However In the Huckleberry Finn lying is also shown as good or bad things. Twain mostly told the truth in previous tale with some and stretched thrown in the although everyone. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn it has many different points of view but Twain shows that there are more than just bad lies because he was try doing some different there are good lies too. Twain uses many of his characters to show that Huck was plays a big part but Twain also uses a numerous other characters it's except Tom's Aunt Polly the Widow Douglas and the maybe a few other girls told lies once a while and he was go one place jami call him hockberry after that he come back with jami one women

Huckleberry Finn is a liar throughout the whole novel but unlike other characters, his lies seem justified and moral to the reader because they are meant to protect himself and Jim and are not meant to hurt anybody.

American author Mark Twain was one of the most influential people of his time. Twain is perhaps best known for his traditional classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a novel about an adventurous boy named Huck Finn as he traverses about on the Mississippi. Under first impressions, Huckleberry Finn would be considered nothing but a children’s tale at heart written by the highly creative Mark Twain. However one interprets it, one can undoubtedly presume that Twain included personal accounts within its pages, humorous and solemn opinions on the aspects of the diverse societies around him during his life. Throughout the entire story, Huck Finn would often come into conflict between choosing what was consciously right and what was morally

One instance was when Huck lied to protect Jim from getting found out. “Your Pap’s got the smallpox, and you know it precious well…. “Well,” says I, a blubbering, I’ve told everybody before, and they just went away and left us” (Twain 136). The fib that Huck told the men who were searching for the slaves saved Jim indeed. Yet, Huck wasn’t trained to do that; he was taught to be racist and turn in runaway slaves. This comes to show that Huck’s gotten close to Jim he’s become a friend to him. The text stated, “I was paddling off, all in a sweat to tell on him, but when he says this, it seemed to kind of take the tuck all out of me. I went along slow then, and I warn’t right down certain whether I was glad I started of whether I warn’t” (Twain 134). This shows that Jim really did care for Huck. Even though he was taught to report runaway slaves he makes the right choice. He fibs and explains that the man he’s with has smallpox. Just imagine if you were Huck and you were close with Jim like Huck was, but you felt you had to tell on him, so consequently he got busted and was owned by a slave owner. Suddenly, you never had the chance to see him again. Sad, huh? Another mission accomplished by Huck, and he saved Jim from getting

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

Mark Twain seems to be more forgiving towards characters who have used necessary deception than the ones who have acted, in some way, hypocritical. Though hypocrisy and deception are both looked at as pessimistic actions in our society, Twain points out that sometimes lying or bending the truth is necessary in some cases. In a perfect world there would be no need for anyone to bend the truth, but this isn't a perfect world and Twain knows it. There is greed, selfishness, and no telling who can be trusted. Since there are such people in the world, Twain seems to find that deception, or the process of misleading others, is necessary at times for people have the potential of doing selfish and greed driven things, like Huck's father.

Huck Finn, a narcissistic and unreliable young boy, slowly morphs into a courteous figure of respect and selflessness. After Pap abducts the young and civilized Huck, Huck descends into his old habits of lies and half-truths. However, upon helping a runaway slave escape, Huck regains morality and a sense of purpose. Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck lies to characters, casting the authenticity of the story into doubt but illustrating Huck’s gradual rejection of lying for himself and a shift towards lying for others.

Most times throughout the first few sections of the novel I felt bad for him, but than again he is a liar, cheats, and steals to make it down the river. In the text it says, “"What did you say your name was, honey?" "M—Mary Williams. "Honey, I thought you said it was Sarah when you first come in?" "Oh, yes'm, I did. Sarah Mary Williams. Sarah's my first name. Some calls me Sarah, some calls me Mary." Here, not only once but twice does Huck lie to get out of a sticky situation. I feel bad for Huck Finn because although he never did enjoy school, he was taken out at such a young age so he has barely any educational background. His father is an abusive alcoholic that has never wanted the best for him. Huck is a very practical, creative, yet logical young boy. Although Huck is uncertain about helping a runaway slave down the river, he still proceeds to come to his own conclusions about important decisions even if they contradict society’s norms. His personality assists him to survive the abuse from his father, the violence from the river con men, and outsmart the town. Huck Finn is very thoughtful, intelligent, and rarely influenced by others. In conclusion, during the first few chapters of TAHF I feel as though Huck Finn is a very smart boy who evaluates any decisions before handling them and will go to any matter in order to survive

Although Huck lies to help others most of the time, his conflicting morals hold him back which results in a stronger impact than intended. In the beginning of the novel, Huck states, “You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,’ but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth(Twain 11). Huck is defensive and makes it clear that he is trustworthy and does not lie, which is not true. Huck questions his morals later on in the novel when he lies to his father when he says, “‘I hain't got no money.’ ‘It's a lie. Judge Thatcher's got it. You git it. I want it.’ ‘I hain't got no money, I tell you. You ask Judge Thatcher; he'll tell you the

Have you ever wondered if the deep lie you told to your loved one or to a friend was a misconception or a moral configuration? Well, in Mark Twain’s book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, there holds an significant amount of lying done by numerous characters throughout the book. In this book, a little white boy named Huck Finn, helping a slave named Jim escape to freedom. Throughout the book, they come across a horde of different types of people with both satisfying and amiss morals. There are a few times where Huck and Jim acquire trouble, although somehow they always find a way out of it.

The way that huck deceives it is more a way to disguise himself to protect himself and Jim from getting caught. Also, the many ridiculous characters and lies huck makes up throughout the book weren’t hurting anybody or taking advantage of people. In the other hand, the way that the duke and king deceives is to scam people; they definitely cross the line between “good” lying and “bad” lying. The duke and the kind take people’s identity to, lie, scam, steal, and there was a point when they even sold Jim to a family and all just for money. A quote from the book is “well if ever I struck anything like it, I’m a nigger. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race”(Twain 165). This quotes shows how huck prefers being a slave which in