Huck Finn Is A Very Troubled Young Boy

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he finally accepts they are very gracious. When they arrive on the
raft and notice that Jim is a black slave they inquire about him. They ask
Huck if he's a runaway slave and they seem interested in selling him for a
good price. Huck being the great thinker he is argues, "why would a slave
be going south?". That really stumps the two men and they leave it at that.
It is instances like these where Huck is able to think quickly and lie his
way out of situations that makes him able to survive on his own.
Another instance which I can remember clearly is when Huck fakes his
death in the very beginning of the book. When Huck is brought to live with
his father he quickly sees how horrible of a life he would have with his
drunken father. So in order to escape from his fathers drunken grasps he
must concoct some plan to keep his father away from him for good. One day
when his father is off across the river Huck cuts his way out of the back
of the cabin using a make sift saw. He ...

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about his raft and whose on it. Just as you think Huck is a s
good as dead he comes up with this wild story. He says that his father and
mother and family are aboard the raft and they have come from up north on
the river. Huck claims that they have a serious case of the mumps. He
describes it as some kind of mumps, chicken pox, scarlet fever, virus and
its very contagious. He asks the men for help but they say they are very
busy. Huck is so convincing that he gets the men to leave and never look
back. Huck seems to have the extraordinary ability to make up the most
bizarre stories and lie his way out of even the hairiest situation.
There are even more examples which I can use ...

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