The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain - 1453 Words

Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, certain characters help influence the development of Huck’s morality immensely. For instance, Jim gave Huck a sense of loyalty and respect, Meanwhile Huck’s father and the con men Huck encountered allowed him to see how not to treat others and what not to value. With all these influences weighing on Huck, he was able to progressively learn how to choose between the rights and wrongs amongst the decisions made by himself and others around him. Huck’s moral development as a character is mostly credited to himself in learning how to analyze situations and people in his life and deciding whether or not they keep strong values and morality. Throughout the beginning of the story,†¦show more content†¦His only experiences in life are negative but he refuses to give up. Huck developed the courage to escape the situation and go about on his own. In the text, Huck narrates â€Å"It was kind of lazy an d jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing, and no books nor study. Two months or more run along, and my clothes got to be all rags and dirt, and I didn’t see how I’d ever got to like it so well at the widow’s, where you had to wash, and eat on a plate, and comb up, and go to bed and get up regular, and be forever bothering over a book, and have old Miss Watson pecking at you all the time. I didn’t want to go back no more. I had stopped cussing, because the widow didn’t like it; but now I took to it again because pap hadn’t no objections. It was pretty good times up in the woods there, take it all around. But by and by pap got too handy with his hick’ry, and I couldn’t stand it. I was all over welts. He got to going away so much, too, and locking me in† (Twain 26). This is the point in the story where Huck analyzes how he isn’t being treated fairly and needs to leave. I think that is a huge step, being able to leave your normal life and start a new one is tremendous for someone as young as he. This also represents the beginning development of his morality, he’s able to conclude that what his father has been doing to him is not right or fair. Soon enough, Huck proves a development of sympathy and