Persuasive Essay On Huckleberry Finn

People sometimes feel that the best way to protect someone is to not tell the truth nor show the thing(s) that may or may not hurt them emotionally. People believe that if you tell other people what they want to hear that everything will be ok and they will not overreact or act out of line. At times things are kept from people to protect others or protect the environment in which you are in at the time. In Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, this happens a lot. Huck lies to keep the peace. One of the time Huck lies or keep something from Jim is when Huck first meets the king and the Duke. The king and the Duke are carpetbagger, and it not did take long for Huck to find out that they we fonies. Huck says: “It didn’t take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn’t no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing, never let on; kept it to myself; it’s the best way; then you don’t have no quarrels, and don’t get into no trouble. If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn’t no objections, ’long as it would
Huck has been away from his friends and has not been having his typical fun so he play a trick on Jim. “Hello, Jim, have I been asleep? Why didn’t you stir me up?” “Goodness gracious, is dat you, Huck? En you ain’ dead?... “What’s the matter with you, Jim? You been a-drinking?”...Huck—Huck Finn, you look me in de eye; look me in de eye. hain’t you ben gone away?” …(Twain 96) In this section of the noel Huck hurt Jim with this lie of a trick which made him feel really bad and sick of himself. Huck only wanted to do this to get a laugh.
Within the novel of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim lie a lot for different reason eventually they will tell each the truth or they will find out the truth for themselves. they do it as instinct to protect or just for fun, but always the truth will come