Our first picture of Huck at the beginning of the novel was a young innocent boy who doesn't like to work and is also superstitious. He lived with Widow Douglas, who took him as a son and tried to "civilise" him. He also lives with Widow Douglas's sister, Miss Watson, she was always telling Huck to sit up straight etc. He lived life there being told what to do and believe quite a lot. Huck felt that he lived a constrained life living with them, life in captivity. Huck wanted to do things, get out and to have adventure. Huck had his own opinion on things mainly. When Miss Watson told him about the good and the bad place, he chose the bad because it seemed better and more interesting. When Tom tells Huck about the genies and the Arabs etc, Huck knows when Tom is lying when he has seen it hasn't happened. He believes in what he can see and experience. Huck has natural intelligence, he is not gullible, he is logical and practical, and he is also sceptical. Huck, like a normal person, leads his life the way it has told him to, the way he was taught things were supposed to be. So things like a Negro being a slave was quite normal. Huck still strongly believed in freedom. It was his "civilised" and "learned" way. This learned way clearly indicated that Negri are of lesser importance and much more inferior than the white person. This was the way at that time but Huck still believed in freedom.
Our picture of Huck at the end of the novel is different in some aspects and has remained constant in others. Throughout the novel Huck has become wiser and more experienced in life and emotionally. His treatment and feelings towards Jim (Miss Watson's runaway slave) changed, after certain events happened. E.g. in chapter 10 Huck set a dead rattle snake in Jim's sheets as a joke, but Huck forgot about this and another snake came along and bit Jim, Huck didn't mean for this to happen but never told Jim.
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