How Does Huck Appear To Be Superior To Tom?

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic novel that takes the reader on a series of thrilling adventures full of life threatening situations, racism, and slavery. The author Mark Twain, uses the novel to highlight the flaws in society by creating a character like Huck, whose personal sense of morals and justice are more noble than those of the very people trying to civilize him.

The Southern United States remained virtually unchanged socially after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Former slaves were employed by previous owners with low-paying sharecropping, and freedmen could not vote. Jim Crow laws soon placed newly freed slaves back into a pseudo-slavery, keeping many in the south with mandatory Apprenticeship Laws. Mark Twain subtly comments on these issues in the American society, largely using satire as a way to display the failure of Reconstruction in the South. Society in Huck Finn displays racism towards Jim, with many characters’ actions and attitudes demonstrating overt racism. Twain’s portrayal of Americans--including common townspeople and Huck’s father--combine with Jim’s ironic false enslavement to shed

There are certain things that set humans apart from other creatures. Intelligence, emotion, and humanity are concepts that many understand while others struggle to grasp. In a time before the Civil War, African Americans were treated with a lack of humanity and respect. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, exposes the racism towards African Americans in the 19th century by showing the interaction of Jim with white Americans. Jim is a runaway slave owned by a white lady named Miss. Watson; while his partner during his adventures down the Mississippi River, Huck is a young boy raised in a slave-owning culture. Jim will have to struggle with Huck’s moral dilemma of whether or not to view Jim as an equal; Twain continues to set Jim

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, you see how much people lie. People lie to protect others or for selfish reasons is a recurring theme shown through Huck, the Duke and the Dauphin and Tom Sawyer.

After Huck finds out that Jim is captive, Huck “set down and cried. [He] couldn’t help it” (210). After returning to the raft and not finding Jim there, Huck is overcome with emotion. The fear of Jim not being around causes Huck to realize how important Jim is to him. The friendship they developed on the river and through their adventure causes Huck to be more concerned for Jim’s safety than society’s need to keep Jim captive. Huck, therefore, sees Jim as his friend and ignores society’s expectations to treat him less than human. After tearing up the letter he writes to Miss Watson, Huck “... studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: ‘All right, then, I’ll go to hell’” (214). Huck realizes that Jim is in need of assistance so he decides to do what is morally correct, which is to help Jim escape. Huck decides to act on his morals rather than be held captive by society; Huck believes that he has to act in the best interest of Jim and does not consider what society believes is acceptable behavior. By stating that he will “go to hell,” Huck reiterates what he promises Jim in the beginning- that he rather be a “low down abolitionist”; these statements combined supports his feelings to protect Jim from society. When Huck and Tom get back to the house, Huck states, “...it don’t make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t got no

Mark Twain emphasizes the theme that a person's morals are more powerful than the corrupt influence of society in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Based on how Huck Finn views the world and forms his opinions, he does not know the difference between right and wrong. In the novel, Huck escapes civilized society. He encounters a runaway slave, Jim, and together they travel hopes of freedom. But along the way, Huck and Jim come across troubles that have Huck questioning his motives. Throughout their journey, Huck is aware that Jim has escaped but does not know whether or not to turn him into the authorities. Huck’s mentality about society matures and he realizes his need to protect Jim from dangers. As the novel progresses, Huck begins to realize the flaws in society. Huck ultimately chooses to follow his own

Individuals often say that the right way may not necessarily be the popular way, but standing up for the right thing, despite it being frowned upon, will be the true test of one’s moral character. This relates to the moral growth that Huck Finn experiences throughout his journey. Mark Twain’s controversial novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, can be said to be a compelling story about how one individual, Huck Finn, goes against society’s ideals. Huck’s moral development can be said to be based primarily on those around him, especially Jim. Many instances also influence Huck’s morals, particularly during the raft journey that will change his beliefs and morals. Although there are numerous instances where Huck’s moral growth can be seen, the individuals around such as Jim, will influence his moral growth greatly.

This is the climax of the novel, in which many of the underlying themes are made clear. Huck’s morals overcome his fear for punishment, and he is determined to help Jim even if he has to go to hell for it. Furthermore, Jim is a runaway slave, and in the context of the story, helping a runaway slave, albeit one that was sold and has a new owner, would be almost traitorous to Huck’s community.

Tom and Huck were suppose to help Jim get out. They could have just have helped him out the easy way but they decided it will be more realistic or more entertaining if they put spiders and other creatures in the cabin with him. Tom are actually being very careless about another human being just to make it feel like the books he has read. Huck is just doing what Tom does because he feels whatever he does is right. Tom doesn't understand how much Huck cares for Jim. Tom also doesn't know how this could be hindering Jim from staying a free man. **The author describes the image of Huck and Tom trying to tell Jim everything is okay, "But Tom he showed him how unregular it would be, and set down and told him all about our plans, . . . and not be the least afraid, because we would see he got away. So Jim he said it was all right," (Twain 224) Trying to looking from Jim perceptive. He was alright with all that is happening to him because he trusted them so much. Jim's intentions were just to get out. He maybe thought they knew something he

ATTENTION! Those trying to find meaning in this essay will be shot on sight. Mark Twain once said, “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” Mark Twain knows that everyone holds darkness inside them and really exaggerates it to the point where anyone can see it in his book Huck Finn. Mark Twain does an amazing job of showing some of the extremes of pride, greed, and envy in ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’.

He becomes Tom’s follower. One example of this phenomenon is when Huck devised a quick and simple plan to free Jim from prison, but Tom argued that the plan needed to be more daring. Tom then crafted his own plan which Huck went along with. Mark Twain even notes on this phenomenon in his autobiography when he says “When people let Huck Finn alone he goes peacefully along, damaging a few children here and there and yonder...It is only when well-meaning people expose him that he gets his real chance to do harm” (Twainquotes). Huck’s character is good, but when exposed to others, especially Tom, Huck loses his way and causes more

Huckleberry Finn is a significant character in Twain’s novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Typically anyone who reads this novel gains a sense of knowledge of what it was like to live in such times. In this book, Huck undergoes many types of occurrences ranging from manufacturing a gang with his friends to dressing up as a girl. Huck also is involved in more serious and controversial events that mentally force Huck to think like an adult. Readers get to experience Huck’s way of thinking throughout the whole book. Huck is involved in all types of situations. In Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck’s maturity, adaptability, and logical thinking teaches readers to keep a clear mind in pressured conditions to have the best possible

Throughout Huck’s many wild adventures, Mark Twain makes Huck's character develop and learn. Towards the beginning, he is similar to any common boy of that time period: young and unknowing. Near the end of the novel, Huck is respectively more mature than when the adventures had just begun. “I slid out quite and throwed the snakes clear away amongst the bushes; for I warn't going to let Jim find out it was all my fault, not if I could help it (Twain, pg 107).” This quote from the novel was said by Huck after he placed a dead snake by Jim while Jim was napping. Huck had forgotten that a dead snake’s mate always finds the dead snake. The mate bit Jim but Huck was unable to admit what he had done. This shows that he is immature and still young, unlike how he was at the end of the story. “I said I wouldn't, and I'll stick to it. Honest Injun, I will. People will call me a low down abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum- but that don't make no difference. I ain't a going to tell.” This quote is Huck telling Jim that he will not tell anyone Jim’s secret, which is that he ran away because he heard his slave owner say that she was considering selling him for 800 dollars. He promises that he will keep a black man’s secret, something that is against most white people’s morals in that time period; especially when the secret concerns a slave’s runaway information. This quote shows how Huck matures even in the beginning of the story. He is learning about life and correct morals and he keeps a secret that most white people wouldn’t even consider keeping. In that time period, it is very common for a white person to have racial displeasure against a black person. That was the way people such as Huckleberry were raised. However, we now know that that behavior is wrong. Huck was able to learn that which is one of the most important ideas in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. “All right, then, I’ll go to hell”—and tore up

In the beginning of the novel when Twain is still introducing Huck, he quickly develops Huck as a young and uneducated boy who has not been civilized. While he is being lectured by Miss Watson about her religion and going to heaven, Huck decides that he “couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going” and that he concluded that he “wouldn’t try for it” (Twain 3). As a young and uneducated boy, Huck has not decided for himself what is right and wrong. He simply does not like Miss Watson and so he decides he does not want to go to heaven with her. This battle between deciding what is right and wrong for himself is continuously a struggle for Huck throughout the entire novel. This struggle reaches a climax once Jim has been recaptured and forced to become a slave once again. Though Twain’s description of Huck’s thoughts, it is revealed the Huck feels pressured by the stereotypical perception of runaway slaves and the people that help the slaves escape. These stereotypical views confuses Huck into believing that helping Jim is a sin; however, he ultimately decides to help Jim even if it causes himself to “go to hell” (Twain 214). Huck decides to go against what the rest of society would believe would be a sin. However, he is doing the

In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author Mark Twain gets his message across by showing how in the beginning and the end Huck matures throughout the story.He shows us they way Huck speaks about Jim from when he first meet him to the end.Lastly, Mark touches on the hypocrisy of the society of that time. Huck matures from the beginning of the novel to the end. One example is in the beginning when "I got out amongst the driftwood, and then laid down in the bottom of the canoe and let her float" page (35) Huck matures in this scene by getting the courage to escape his father who was always abusive to him he never did before because he was always scared to do so .Huck speaks about Jim in the beginning negatively because of the color of his skin, but as the story goes on he realizes that they are the same but he can't admit that because of how in that time people viewed people of color, but he still tries to help him because deep down we know that