In the passage on the previous slide Huck considers the taking of the crops “borrowing” and that he’d eventually pay people back for the food he took. His pap and the widow had him torn on his decision on whether to take the crops because his pap said that it was merely borrowing, while the widow said that calling it borrowing was a softer way to describe stealing. …show more content…
Huck seemed content with his decision to write the letter to Miss Watson that was to inform where Jim was, but the more he thought about all the good times and good deeds that Jim was involved in the harder it was to think that writing the letter was the right thing to do. he also believed that in doing it, he would rid himself of the sin he thought he had committed in helping Jim escape. Huck’s long contemplation of what was the right thing to do shows just how much thought he puts into what he is doing and the maturity that goes into it along with the good morality of what the right decisions …show more content…
This situation adds to his growing maturity because he is showing that he is going through with the decisions to steals Jim out of slavery no matter how many wicked things he had to go through as long as it was good. He knows what he was doing would be wicked to most, but he believes that he is doing what is right and this is enough to convince him to