satisfied"( Mark Twain 102). Huck did not really want to live that civilize life miss Watson was trying to get him to lived. she would constantly give him direct orders like " don 't put your feet up there Huckleberry" and " don 't scrunch up like that , Huckleberry -set up straight " (102). she tried tirelessly to get Huck to be the way society expect him to be. it just wasn 't working. After realizing this component of Huck’s personality, we can further identify the development of Huck as an individual that is outside of societies liking. We find next in the book that Huck’s own instincts tend to hold him in a higher moral standard than those of society. We first see this in the novel with Huckleberry’s decision to help free Jim, a known slave, is an example of one such occurrence. Huckleberry Finn recognizes Jim as a human being, but is actually fighting the beliefs bestowed upon him by society that believes slaves should not be free. However, it is even more important to realize though that Huckleberry’s decision creates the conflict between society and him. But, what Huckleberry Finn does not realize is that his decision defines his personal justice, the righteousness, and even the heroism of his own self that is developing. when Jim was captured, he decided that he will do the right thing by sending miss Watson a letter to tell her where her nigger was. He sat and think of all the bad thing that he had done and he mentioned how society think of helping a slave to escape was sin. Despite all of that thinking, his words were " All right, then, I 'll go to hell" (239). Most of the time, society set the rules of how people suppose to live their live. In the face of the majority, you will be considered as immoral, out of order, miss-behave if one fail to follow those clear paths that been set. after reading this story, it is clear for one to see that he/she can distinguish his/herself from society. We can follow our own path just like Huck, and do what we think is right even if it hurt society.
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Works Cited
Twain, Mark. "The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn." Vol. 2. The Norton Anthology. Ed. Nina Baym. Shorter seventh edition ed. New York: Norton & Company, 1884. Print.
Cited: Twain, Mark. "The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn." Vol. 2. The Norton Anthology. Ed. Nina Baym. Shorter seventh edition ed. New York: Norton & Company, 1884. Print.