Huck Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is a sequel to Tom Sawyer, except told from Huck Finn’s point of view.
In this book, Huck escapes from his town, bringing Jim, a runaway slave, with him. They meet up with the King (who is not a king), and the Duke(who is not a duke). They were actually Con men who tried to get Jim and Huck to believe that the were royalty, which Huck absolutely did not believe.
Once the king and the duke play a big prank to rob the family of a dead man of his money. Huck Finn must chose between right and wrong. It’s easier and safer to keep quiet about the ordeal (what ordeal????????), but the right thing to do would be to tattle. Huck does the right thing.
Huck starts to wonder about helping Jim escape. It was a bad thing he did according to the public. He knew that the right thing to do would be to turn Jim in. But he decides to Hell with the public, he was Jim’s friend and he wasn’t letting him down.
Unfortunately, the king and the duke turn Jim in for the money. Jim is imprisoned in a town jail. This just happened to be the same town that his friend Tom Sawyer’s other aunt lived in. She mistook Huck for Tom, and he goes along with it. Then the real Tom comes and he’s all for pretending and says that he’s Tom’s brother, Sid Sawyer.
Huck and Tom are also trying to break Jim out of jail. They do it in the most unnecessarily elaborate, and imaginative way, cuz that’s just Tom’s way. This way takes several weeks.
They finally get Jim out, but they get found out, and Jim is re-jailed. As it turns out, Jim’s owner died and set him free in her will, and Tom knew it the whole time, and was trying to have fun.
I think that Mark Twain wrote to show people about choosing between right and wrong. Huck must make this decision many times though the book, and I think it is safe to say that he mostly chooses right.
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June 27th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
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