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Why Is Huck Finn Wrong
The story The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain is a story that tells the life of a young kid. The story tells you what life would be like back then and how hard it can be during certain times. Kids didn't have money and they didn't have much of anything. Huck went through hard times and lived on his own a lot of the time. Huck's very good friend Jim is a slave at the time. In the story his friend Jim gets into a lot of trouble and Huck has to question himself whether to save him or not. Throughout Huckleberry Finn Huck is trying to learn who he is and learns his morals are more important than society's.

Huck and all of his buddies go in a cave. They wanted to start a gang of robbers, but they all said there needs to
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His friend Tom sawyer keeps showing bad examples to Huck throughout the story. For example Tom convinced Huck to sneak into Widow Douglas House with him. When they are in the house a guy named Jim is sleeping and instead of just leaving he decides to mess with him.’’ Tom takes Jim's hat and hangs it on a tree-limb Afterwards’’. This is one example of why Huck is still trying to figure out what is right or wrong and what his morals …show more content…
Jim is a good friend who is trying to protect Huck from being hurt or damaged. In the story Huck keeps insisting that he wants to talk about the dead men they saw. Jim keeps trying to avoid the fact so he says “it would fetch bad luck’’. Jim keeps implying that it would haunt him and he is trying to avoid the fact it is Huck's dad so it doesn’t hurt him. As you can see Jim is being a good friend and is trying to look out for his friend to keep him together. Once again this is an example Huck is always worried about things he should be and you can still tell he hasn't figured everything out with himself. Huck still doesn't know his morals and is worried about things he shouldn't be thinking about in the story.

In the end of the story Jim was forced into this prison because he was a slave. Huck has to finally make up his mind if society has been wrong this whole time or is he going to do what is right for him. Huck and Tom develop this plan to get Jim out safely. One of these plans were to dig a hole.They gave up on the plan.”it ain't to use it aint going to work’’ (285). He saves Jim and Huck learns that everything with society that he has been following is wrong and his morals are more important

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