Huck Finn

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eat regular…It was pretty good times up in the woods there, take it all around.” (p. 31) Living in the woods is harder work, having to catch food and build fires to stay warm, but Huck doesn’t mind work as long as he can do it how he wants to.
Huck is always going against society and cannot live by its rules. Society told him it was wrong to help a runaway slave, but when he paddled out to go turn Jim in he just couldn’t let himself. He decided that he didn’t care what society thought was right, and that staying true to Jim was the best thing to do. “I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it warn’t no use for me to try to learn to do right…Then I thought for a minute, and says to myself hold n; s’pose you’d ‘a’ done right and give Jim up, would’ve you felt better than what you do now? No says I, I’d feel bad…Well, then says I, what’s the use you learning to do right when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong.” (p. 95) His spirit is free and ...

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