Huck Finn Essay Exam 1 (1-23)

Jemar Rooks

Mr. Hughes

English 10 6th hour

31 October 2007

Moral Dilemmas in Huck Finn In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck faces a number of moral dilemmas which reveal much about his character.

Huck faces a lot of moral dilemmas which is a problem with no clear right or wrong answer. On his adventure with Jim he says lots of lies to get himself and Jim out of trouble and after he lies, he feels that he has done something wrong. Well here is a moral dilemma that Huck had to make in order to be safe and not get in trouble.

When Huck and Jim are escaping and two hunters come there way, Huck has to make a decision on what he was going to with Jim to save his life because he knows that Jim is black and if the hunters find Jim, Then Jim will get taken away a maybe killed. So Huck makes a decision and he decides to lie for Jim to save him. So as Huck is talking to the two hunters he says that he never saw a black person around even though Huck is escaping with Jim and he is black. When Huck lies for Jim he says that he know he have done wrong and he should have gave Jim away but Huck is his friend and he wants to keep Jim. I think that this will change Huck child development and when he has to lie about things, he will do it and not feel sorry about it because it is the right thing to do for his friend.

Huck decision is very lenient but I would have to agree with him. I agree with Huck because I would not want to be taken away after all that hard work of escaping even though back then it was bad. Yes, it would be very crude to give your friend away after both of you did so much together and helping each other out like finding and building new shelter and finding and cooking each other food to eat.

Huck Decision was right to do when he did not give away Jim because if Huck would of gave Jim away then Huck would be on his on through his own adventure. Huck is a child and Jim is an adult and even though Huck is smarter than Jim because Huck can read and right and Jim cant, Huck would still need Jim because two brains is better than one especially when your in tight situations and you need more than just on opinion.

All in all, Huck has lied a lot on his adventure but he had to lie to save a friend. Yes, lying might be bad and he did feel stupid for not doing the right thing but it was even better of the decision that he made for not snitching on Jim.