Examples Of Mark Twain's Code Of Ethics In Huckleberry Finn

Is there a definite right and wrong, or is that categorization a decision for society to impose on itself? In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he addresses this question of ethics from the perspective of Huck, a growing boy sorting out his code of ethics for himself. Twain does an excellent job of making the reader feel sympathetic for Huck on multiple occasions throughout the novel with his use of a moral dilemma wherein Huck must reexamine himself and the conventions of the society in which he lives. The first time that the reader is exposed to Huck’s inner turmoil is when he and Jim leave Jake and Bill, the murderers, on the sinking steamship. In chapter thirteen, Huck starts to think about “how dreadful it was, even for