Hucks Contradiction in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Essay

Hucks Contradiction in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn In Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck was a boy who thought very little of himself, exclusively had a huge impact on others. His moral standing was based on what is easier, right or wrong. He lived the way he wanted to live, and no one told him otherwise. He had the adventure of a lifetime, and yet he learned along the way. Although Huck has certain beliefs about himself, his actions and decisions contradict these beliefs. Huck may dispense himself lazy, but in reality, he is a very hard worker. At one point, Huck wants to get away from his father so he comes up with a scheme to fake his death and escape from his cabin I out with my saw and went to work on that log again. I took the sack of maize meal and took it to where the canoe was hid and shoved the vines and branches apart and put it in. I had wore the ground a good deal, crawling out of the hole and dragging out so many another(prenominal ) things. So I fixed that as good as I could from the outside. Then I fixed the piece of log sand into its place. I took the ax and smashed in the door-I beat it and hacked it considerable, a-doing it. I fetched the pig.and laid him down on the ground to bleed. Well, last I pulled out some of my hair, and bloodied the ax good, and stuck it on the back side, and slung the ax in the corner (24). If Huck were lazy, he would not have gone through all that trouble to escape, if he escaped at all. A lazy person would have just stayed there and not worried about what happened. At another point in the novel, Huck and a romp slave, Jim, are on an island where th... ...x, James M. From Mark Twain The Fate of Humor (Princeton University Press, 1966) Southwestern Vernacular pp. 167-184. Copyright 1966 by Princeton University Press. Rpt. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ed. Claude M Simpson. Englewood Cliffs,N.J. 1968. Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, Ph d. program line Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1995, July Summer Teachers Institute, Hartford, Connecticut 1995 http//www.pbs.org/wgbn/cultureshorck/teachers/huck/essay.html Leavis, F.R. Three New Approaches to Huckleberry Finn. (London Chatto and Windus, Ltd., 1955) Rpt. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ed. Claude M Simpson. Englewood Cliffs,N.J. 1968. Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Berkeley University of California Press, 2001.