How To Prevent Huck's Life

Subsequently, Huck helps others, gaining experience. Huck says, “At last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had smallpox aboard, and he was so grateful; and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world (Twain 228).” Huck risked quite a bit when he helped Jim, especially helping an escaped slave. He risked going to jail and even had a conscience breakdown but he still decides to help Jim become a free man, even though he risks his own life. The king and duke were con men and Huck would defend the money they were after to help Mary Jane’s family. Huck feels the moral obligation to help the people that the king and duke are going to swindle of money (“The Adventures of…” 4). Huck defends Mary Jane and her family’s
Huck set up a plan for Mary Jane to get her family’s money rightfully: “Now you go along out there, and lay low till nine or half-past, to-night, and then to fetch you home again - tell them you’ve thought of something. If you get here before eleven, put a candle in this window, and if I don’t turn up, wait till eleven, and then if I don’t turn up, it means I’m gone, and out of the way, and safe. Then you come out and spread the news around, and get these beats jailed” (Twain 201). Huck got the swindling king and duke away from her money and never saw her again and he lives with the thought that he helped Mary Jane which definitely gave him experience. Huck did not want to see a murder take place: To save a life, Huck imprisons the thieves in the steamboat until they are detained by the authorities (Link 435). Huck helped the men, even though they were thieves, by letting their raft go and trapping them on the wreckage, saved the man the other thieves were going to murder, showing Huck’s morals. Huck is a moral individual who helps those in need. Huck Gains his life experience in that manner. Finally, Huck gains more wisdom of the world, having experience.