What Are The Traits Of Huckleberry Finn

The Powerful and Impactful Trait of Huckleberry Finn

Is anyone capable of having the important trait of considering the feelings of others before themselves? In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, a character named Huckleberry Finn demonstrates this quality. Huck Finn reveals this character trait throughout various parts of the book such as when he apologizes to Jim, when he decides he would get the money back for Peter Wilks’s daughters, and when he considered Aunt Sally’s feeling before his own concerns.
Huck Finn first showed how he is considerate of people’s feelings when he apologized to Jim about playing a mean trick on him. “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but
I done it, and I waren’t ever sorry for it afterwards neither. I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d ‘a’ knowed it would make him feel that way” (p.86). This is a very significant quote because not only does he feel bad about playing the trick on Jim and hurting his feelings; he apologizes to a black man which was unheard of in society during that time. This demonstrates how considerate Huck is of the feelings of everyone.
Another time Huck shows this characteristic is when he made his mind up that he would help the Wilks’s daughters get their money back from the Duke and the King.
I says to myself, this is another one that I’m letting him rob her of her money. And when she got through they all jest laid theirselves out to make me feel at home and know I was amongst friends. I felt so ornery and low down and mean that I says to myself, my mind’s made up; I’ll hive that money for them or bust
(p.175).
Huck yet again shows his consideration of people’s feelings. The King and the Duke are cruel and if Huck was to get caught by them, he could be in a situation that he wouldn’t be able to lie his way out of. He knows allowing the King and Duke to steal the girls’ inheritance is cruel and by helping the girls could put his life in danger; but he does the right thing anyway. Once again Huck Finn shows this trait again when he considered Aunt Sally’s feeling before his own concerns. “The door ain’t going to be locked, Tom, and there’s the window and the rod; but you’ll be good, won’t you?
And you won’t go? For my sake.”
Laws knows I wanted to go bad enough to see about Tom, and was all intending to go; but after that I wouldn’t ‘a’ went, not for kingdoms.
But she was on my mind and Tom was on my mind, so I slept very restless. And twice I went down the rod away in the night, and slipped around front, and see her setting there by her candle in the window with her eyes towards the road and the tears in them; and I wished I could do something for her but I couldn’t, only to swear that I wouldn’t never do nothing to grieve her any more. (p. 282)

Huck was concerned about Tom and Jim but he knew how distressed Aunt Sally would be if he left that night so he decided to stay. He barely knew Aunt Sally but he still cared enough for her that he couldn’t stand to see her upset. Huck once again shows his consideration of people’s
feelings. Huckleberry Finn has a powerful and very impactful trait of caring about how his actions will affect people’s feelings. It doesn’t matter if their close friends such as Jim, if there strangers such as the Wilks’s daughters, or if a new acquaintance such as Aunt Sally mistakes him as her nephew. He chose kindness and consideration of their feelings even if wasn’t easy or the safest route for him. Choosing actions based on how it will impact others isn’t always a good thing, but sometimes it leads to a rewarding experience that spreads happiness to everyone.