Is Huck Finn Selfish

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Throughout the novel, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” it is apparent that most characters that Huck confronts show nonsense or absurdity in what they say and do. Huck encounters right and wrong situations with himself and also with characters during the course of the book. From Pap and his fascinations, to the slave Jim and his misconceptions, lastly the duke and the king and their lunatic ways when it comes to collecting money. During Hucks adventures, he learns time and time again that people cannot be trusted. When he first trusted the king and duke, Jim and Huck got into a complicated position that was hard to escape. Huck first realizes that people cannot be trusted when the affliction with Mary Anne and the money occurred. Trust was something that Huck gained more experience with as the novel unravels. Huck concludes that he could only genuinely trust someone if he faces a bad experience with that person. Jim had never been disloyal to Huck, so therefore Huck truly trusts him. Jim is also always there for Huck when he needs him. Huck believed that everyone he trusted were loyal and trustworthy to him as well, but this was a mistake that Huck finds out at the end of the book. Tom Sawyer was playing him. Huck considered Tom as a good friend but Tom was actually using Huck for…show more content…
Pap’s presence does not scare Huck at all; it actually puts him in a state of relief. In the book it describes Pap as, “A white to make a body sick, a white to make a body’s flesh crawl.” This expresses how Pap is probably the most vicious character in the novel. Pap’s unhappy character exemplifies another pessimistic part of this society. Since Huck saw how miserable his father was it made him want to be more of a man then he ever was. Twain utilizes Pap’s foul and ridiculous behavior to show Hucks choices in his coming of age, and also to have hope in his future
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