Huckleberry Finn Thinks

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The boy admits that he may sometimes rob, act badly but there is some moments in life, when it becomes impossible doing wrong if you have such a soft conscience. If Huck doesn’t help Mary Jane and her family all book would be listening his regret, I thinks. This passage effectively shows that he is very charitable person who decide to do everything which he could and is his power to help Wilks’ orphan girls. It is very dangerous job, Huck can been killed by the king and the Duke, he can lose Jim but this fears are nothing for his comfortable inner world. The main factor that brings peace in ourselves is comfortable of our conscience.

Huckleberry show his high intelligence and his adroitness when through the whole passage he plays with the fire in order to save money for Wilks and help Mary Jane’s slaves to stay with one another. He invents lies and manipulate with the situation as he can. For thirteen years old boy this is very difficult scheme of acting. I think a role of fate is very important, too. Huck was safe very often because of his good fortune. And this time when Peter Wilks’ real brother arrived he feels hope. He was very optimistic about his plan at first, of course, but it seems more realistic when the real brothers of Peter Wilks came.

Now I want mention Huck’s relationship with Jim. He likes him from the first meeting. For him Jim is very interesting and funny. But only in last chapters we see that Huck realize that Jim is equal human being with white folks. Huck has some moral conflict about whether it's right to help Jim to escape or not. Huck acts on his feelings and again what society has taught him. He finally he decides to help Jim to get out of prison and go to hell. I think, Huck’s conscience has been deformed because he hadn’t a mainstream childhood. He had mixed feelings: one part of ideas come from Miss Watson, one from his pap and one from his bare feelings. And which is right? For Huck right is what you heart and conscience tell you. At first people born and then the rules where made. So if someone want to find out what is good and what is bad he should go in the first-made world where only natural rules are. I mean a world where as John Locke calls nature rules are and natural conditions that are free from society ideas, which were made later.

Jim has family. Jim has daughter. Jim regrets. Jim Loves. Jim cares. Jim want to be free. Jim thinks. In my opinion, Jim shows Huck the highest humanity level in the book and there was no way except that one, which Huck had chosen.

In conclusion, I want to say that I think that despite a lot of interesting moments in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn these three passages are most important and they had a biggest influence on Huck. The aristocratic families had a feud. They were model and authoritative families for society and even so Huck doesn’t agree that feud should continue. Huck was afraid of the King and the Duke, but he acts as his rational mind and conscience tells him. Despite of society dogmas he thinks that Jim is equal to him, to white people and he is ready to go to hell for this thought. All these findings Huck made by himself. Despite being under influence and pressure of popular dogmas and his young age, he managed to act independently relying on his own natural reflexes, rational thinking and analysis of events that uncovered in front of him. Now I am sure that Huck can make the right decisions and defy justice.

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