Huck Finn Character Analysis Essay

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Huck is a round character who, throughout the book, is constantly changing opinions about his beliefs and how others act. During the beginning of the book, Huck was not allowed to think for himself and was told what to believe in. As Huck is exposed to the real world ,briefly after escaping his abusive father, he begins to question his morals and what he thinks he should believe is right. Him and his friend Jim set off on an adventure to escape from St. Petersburg for a new life and maybe even find Jim's family in which he was taken for slavery. As the book progresses, Huck realizes that Jim is not such a bad guy and believes that black and white people are pretty much the same yet he was not taught to believe that.

Huck starts off telling you things about himself so you can get to know him. He lets you know what books he is interested in and where he had been seen in other books, so you might know him from those stories as well. "You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.". In this, he also says things as he is friends with Tom Sawyer and that in the book he didn't tell the truth in parts of the story. …show more content…
He starts to think that he was brought up wrong and doesn't understand why things are the way they are and why he was taught to believe in what he does. "What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?". In this, Huck brings up a good point. In most cases if you do something kind of good no one makes a big deal but when someone does something kind of bad people make a big deal. He says that there is no reason to even learn what is right if you will do wrong
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