Here Huck faced with his first tough decision, to go with Jim and help him, or just tell and get a reward. ... During this stage of Huck life, he fights with himself of whether he should turn Jim to the authorities or not. ... By the end of the novel Huck realizes that no matter how bad someone can be their life still worthy. ... Huck learns some valuable lessons on his journey to rescue Jim. He learned the value of life, the line between right and wrong, and how some immature jokes can threaten the life of others. ...

• Word Count: 1364
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

To Huck Finn, this is the way that he lives his life. ... Tom does this to create excitement in his life and live out the romantic novels of adventure that he reads. ... Huck's only concern is not being with his father. ... He begins the novel with "stretching the truth", follows with lies made out of ignorance or misunderstandings, and then allows lies made for survival, which seem morally fine; but ends with malicious lies intended to harm people. ... Huck learns a valuable lesson throughout the novel, and that is that "you don't lie to someone you love" (Wasserstein). ...

• Word Count: 1838
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Unlike regionalists, naturalists had a scientific view on life while continuing to depict life truthfully. ... There is no use of supernatural forces saving Huck at the end of the novel; only life-like events occur. ... In many areas of the novel, Huck's view on religion, slavery, and social acceptance came to odds with society's view of morality. ... At the start of the novel, Huck had no aversion to slavery and he wrestled with helping Jim escape to freedom throughout the story. ... On many occasions in the novel, Jim teaches Huck many lessons, with the most important being that fr...

• Word Count: 2013
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In this novel, he played two tricks on Jim, enough to never make him do such a thing again. ... The social consequences of his actions had at one point been contemplated, rather than the lessons he learned about equality of men. He was also burdened with the thought that Ms. ... By the middle of the novel, anyone could believe that Huck Finn learned a great lesson of equality and made a complete 360 in becoming a new person. ... They both toy around with Jim as they plan his escape from the Phelps. ...

• Word Count: 1388
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The novel takes place in pre-Civil War America where slavery still exists, and it tells a story of a boy who goes on a quest to free Jim, a slave. ... In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by reversing the black-white paradigm, Huck ultimately learns of the invalidity of the ideology behind slavery and racism that has governed his beliefs about whites and blacks his entire life. ... Using this existing idea of whites, Mark Twain instead characterizes them by rather opposing traits, evidently criticizing their supposed "goodness " throughout the novel. ... The scam has surely confounded Huc...

• Word Count: 1798
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I believe that see this scam will greatly deter Huck from wanting to be a criminal later in life which is something he said he might be earlier in the novel. Duke and Dauphin's attempt at scamming the Williams family is an extremely important lesson for Huck. ... This chapter demonstrates that criminals don't ever trust anyone, not even their own partner which they should trust with their life. ... It starts out with him and Huck loading Jim's shed with rats and rattlesnakes. ... The novel Huckleberry Finn is a novel which reflects and satirizes many problems of the time....

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School