The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn None of us know right from wrong; we are taught it. Your morals are based off of who has raised you, how have you been raised, the era you were raised in, religion and so forth. With knowing all of that: can your opinions/views/morals on something change? I believe they can because in the book “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain it is proved. A lot changes for a boy named Huck Finn when he helps a slave ,named Jim, run away to freedom. In their story it is proved by their friendship and the general fact that he is white and Jim is black and how his feelings of a slave change. This boy Huck wasn’t raised in a standard household; he practically raised himself. He grew up on the streets learning to fend for him-self. Until, a widow and her sister, Ms Watson, took him into their household and tried to give him the proper values. Huck met Jim because he worked for Ms Watson. Huck wanted to runaway and do his own thing while Jim was running away to escape slavery and find his family. They traveled together to help each other. When Jim told Huck that he had escaped and why he was scared Huck, another white man, would go and tell. But instead Huck said “I said I wouldn’t and I’ll stick to it. Honest injun, I will. People would call me a low-down abolitionist and despises me for keeping mum—but that don’t make no difference.” He showed that he didn’t notice the color difference. He treated him as he would have anyone else. When they are on this raft it is forcing them to be close, connect, and talk to each other. Huck right about now is like every other white person that has this one idea of African American people. That changes throughout the story for example when he hears that one of the reasons to escape was to find his family and also bring them to freedom. Another reason that corresponds with this one is when Huck plays a trick on Jim; treating Jim as if he is crazy. Jim gets really upset and basically asks Huck why would you do that to me when I care about you. Mark Twain writes “I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a n…, but I don’t it, and I wasn’t ever sorry for it after wards.” Huck is realizing that just because Jim is a slave doesn’t mean they don’t have emotions just like everyone else. He thought slaves were property; like a table or machine. As Huck is learning so much and realizing even more his choices are influenced by that. When the men come by and want to check his raft for slaves he purposely sends them off; to protect Jim. Another time he shows that his beliefs have changed is in the end of the story when his emotions are mixed. He doesn’t know what to do about Jim. He’s debating writing a letter to Ms Watson so she can find him or letting Jim live freely. He was raised that all the things he has done to help a slave will send him to hell and that is not what he wants. In the end he chooses to let Jim stay free and Huck says “All right, then, I’ll go to hell.” He learns and his values/morals about slaves change to the point that he is willing to send himself to hell to stop the torture this man has been through.