Huckleberry Finn Choices

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What people think is revealed in the choices they make. People’s choices are mostly based on society or their conscience. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the main character Huck faces moralistic choices in his life. These choices reveal various thoughts about ideas regarding human decency and kindness. Twain guides different features of humanity through the characters Huck and Jim. In his journey, Huck has internal conflicts between good and bad in society and life. These internal conflicts cause him to make a decision which leads him to question the difference between his heart and his society. Twain describes society as a place where people are judged and treated with different values.…show more content…
For an uneducated boy, Huck does not believe in the morals of the society which makes him an outcast causing him to change his values. Away from society, on the raft, Huck is free from prejudice, and is capable to make his own decisions without any limitations. For instance Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas are involved in shaping Huck into the person he is. Something Huck once said was “ The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out.” (1). Huck forms negative actions to “sivilizing,” which seems fine for a boy at that age, wanting to rebel against family and other people. Huck has problems with civilized society which is based on the things that went on in his life and around him. Huck’s childish acts are an outcome of his problems—Tom’s band of robbers, in which he pretends to be a criminal. In the end Huck returns to the Widow’s, but as the novel goes on his dislike for society restarts and impacts the decisions he…show more content…
He is faced with the rights and wrongs of religion from the beginning of the novel. An example of this is when the Widow Douglas “got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.”(4). Huck cannot understand why anybody would care and want to read about a bunch of dead people which causes him to get angry. Religion is something that is pressed into Huck’s life not only by the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson but also in a different way by Pap, Huck's father. Huck’s father has a negative interpretation of religion. He does not believe in anyone or anything only caring about his happiness which is alcohol and
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