Examples Of Selflessness In Huckleberry Finn

A world without morals is a world without peace, if everyone’s morals were the same as Huck Finn’s surely there would be little peace in the world. Throughout the story of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck shows great growth in his morals, acting on his sense of empathy, and displaying selflessness towards those who need help. One criterion to consider is Huck Finn’s sense of empathy. Huck Finn starts out as an inconsiderate person, and never really thinks about what others feel when he plays pranks, tells lies and steals from others. Later in the story he shows improvement by thinking about others rather than just himself. Not only is Huck inconsiderate at the start of the story, another criterion to consider is selflessness. Huck

Huck demonstrates greater morality by developing a stronger sense of empathy by the end of the story allowing him to make decisions that take into account the people around him. Near the beginning of the story, after Huck is separated from Jim for the whole night on the Mississippi River, Huck decides to play a prank on Jim: “‘Well, this is too many for me, Jim. I hain’t seen no fog, nor no islands, nor no troubles, nor nothing. I been setting here talking with you all night… you couldn’t ‘a’ got drunk in that time, so of course you’ve been dreaming” (Twain 84). This shows that Huck does not consider Jim’s feelings and plays a prank on him. He is also not very kind because Jim genuinely worries about Huck, but Huck doesn’t realize until after the prank. Further into the story after being taken in by the Grangerfords, he notices a room that used to be inhabited by Emmeline Grangerford: “Poor Emmeline made poetry about all the dead people when she was alive, and it didn’t seem right that there warn’t nobody to make some about her