Over time, Huck develops an inner conviction that he can't return Jim to slavery. Despite feeling guilty for acting in a way his society considers immoral, Huck decides he must treat Jim not as a slave, but as a human being.
Huck begins the novel very immaturely with a misdirected moral compass and even less intellectual independence. As he travels down the river, his experiences vastly improve his maturity, morality, and most importantly his intellectual independence.
A while later, Huck decides to go ashore to get information. Jim agrees, but has Huck disguise himself as a girl, using one of the dresses they took from the houseboat. Huck practices his girl impersonation and then sets out for the Illinois shore.
Huck, as he is best known, is an uneducated, superstitious boy, the son of the town drunkard. Although he sometimes is deceived by tall tales, Huck is a shrewd judge of character. He has a sunny disposition and a well-developed, if naively natural, sense of morality.
Huck changes in several ways; he sees African-Americans differently, he starts to believe in superstition, and he also changes the way he acts toward people. One of the ways Huck has changed, is the way he sees and treats African-Americans.
Huck learns about love: Jim teaches what it is like to be loved. Each night he keeps Huck's watch and lets Huck sleep, he calls him "honey" and is always nice to him. He teaches him values of respect, friendship, and loyalty.
nephewTaking the opportunity to conceal his identity by pretending to be her nephew, Huck explains that a cylinder head on the steamboat blew out.
Huck disguises himself as a girl to go ashore so no one would suspect his true identity. He went ashore to find out what was going on and whether the townspeople were still looking for him and Jim.
Curiousity overwhelms him and he wants to know how society has taken to the news of his death. In order to get some information Huck disguises himself as a girl.
Because Huck believes that the laws of society are just, he condemns himself as a traitor and a villain for acting against them and aiding Jim. More important, Huck believes that he will lose his chance at Providence by helping a slave.
Huck Finn is an allegory about good and evil. Huck represents the forces of good, and most of the people he meets represent evil. Society seems like a place that is holding you back, and the river seems like a place where there are no worries.
Huckleberry “Huck” Finn From the beginning of the novel, Twain makes it clear that Huck is a boy who comes from the lowest levels of white society. His father is a drunk and a ruffian who disappears for months on end. Huck himself is dirty and frequently homeless.
At the end when Jim learns that he is free, and Huck learns that his Pa is dead
Huck Finn's internal struggle to come to terms with himself and society
Huckleberry Finn struggles to find his identity because he spends much of his time assuming identities of others and does not allow for time to develop himself. He is Huckleberry Finn, dead, alive, Sarah Williams, George Peters, George Saxon, from England, not from England, and Tom Sawyer; he becomes a boy of multiple personalities and spends ...
Husk’s creation of aliases and lies about his personality, his failure to establish a life in one place, and constant internal debate are hindrances in his ability to form his self image. These rejections Of society overshadow Husk’s progress towards developing his own sense of self, as by the end of the novel he fails to fully establish his own individuality. Huckleberry Finn struggles to find his identity because he spends much of his time assuming identities of others and does not allow for time to develop himself.
Following the shipwreck scene, Houck tells Jim about the excitement that happened while he was on the wreck stating, ‘these kinds of things was adventures” as Tom would have thought, but in reality what he did was dangerous, and he risked both his life and Jims life (Twain 1 19). The presence of different opinions in his head causes Houck to be confused and to form “corrupt” Opinions that become older into his identity. The center of conflict for Houck is dealing with society ideas about racism and having to simultaneously combat them with ideas of his own.
He assumes the roles of people who he is not because he does not know who he is or who he wants to be. Husks failure to tell the truth, also seen as compulsive lying, is a clear indicator that he struggles to understand who he is as a person. The complexity of the layers of his lies is evident when Mrs… Judith Loft’s says goodbye to Houck: “Now trot along to your uncle, Sarah May Williams George Alexander Peters” (Twain 96). Houck is more comfortable and confident assuming other persons than when he is himself; when left alone to be Houck, he is consumed with contradictions and confusion.
Husk’s unstable home and failure to establish his life in one place adds to he difficulty of finding an identity. Husk’s life is characterized by life on the move; right from the start of the novel, he does not seem comfortable with settling in a permanent residence. His initial move from the widow Douglas and Miss Watson is to escape the “civilized” societal identity that the women are trying to force onto him; Houck avoids even this sense of identity that he does not have to create on his own, but that is given to him by society.
He begins to develop his own definition of the “civilized” life that he wants to lead which is different from the morally wrong society in which he was raised. His development of faith, his friendship with Jim, and his own decision to reject slavery help to shape this new decisiveness. His conscience, Houck decides, is more of a presence of society, and he rejects this conscience deciding it “anti no good, now’ (Twain 357). Houck has established what he does not want to be a part of his identity, but e still lacks the ability to decide what he does want to be a part of his identity.
Huck assumes Tom's identity because Tom's aunt mistakes him for Tom, and he goes along with it so that he can try and rescue Jim
Huck becomes passive when tom arrives and lets him take charge, he seems to lose any ability to act for himself.