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Huck's Morality - College Essay

Huck's Morality

These chapters mark several milestones in Huck’s development, as he acts on his conscience for the first time and takes concrete steps to thwart the schemes of the duke and the King. Although Huck has shown an increasing maturity and sense of morality as the novel has progressed, he has been tentative in taking sides or action. He has chosen not to challenge or expose the duke and the King even though he has been aware from the start that they are frauds. Earlier, watching as the con men scam the Wilks sisters in Chapter 24, Huck tells him that the sight makes him ashamed to be part of the human race. Though this strong statement is, in itself, a step for Huck, he does not act on it until ...

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chapters later that Huck, seeing Mary Jane crying in her bedroom, blurts out that the duke and the King are frauds. Also, Huck seems relatively unfazed when he hears that the Kings plan to liquidate the Wilks’s property will require the separation of a slave woman from her children. Huck confesses to Mary Jane not because he is upset about the splitting of the slave family but because he feels bad that she is upset about it. Twain implies, through Huck’s struggle with the issue, that the attitudes and assumptions that enable racism and slavery in the South are deep-seated and difficult to ...

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Added: 4/28/2011 01:33:19 PM
Submitted By: whitneydefibaugh
Category: Book Reports
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