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How Does Huck Finn Expresses The Likelihood Of A Child

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Twain expresses the likelihood of a child through Huck, because he barely has any gasp of true living. In a quote Twain once said , “ No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.” Which really helps show why Twain put Huck in his novel , and in Huck's perspective. He uses Huck to express lying , Truthfulness , and creativity in a child. Huck shows how loyal he is to Jim by lying to the townspeople and to people he came across . For example Mrs. Judith , Huck knew she didn’t know him because she had just moved there , so he tried to get supplies for him and Jim by telling her a fake story. It was going perfect until she mentioned a runaway slave , Jim. She told Huck that her husband was out looking for the slave and said , “Well you’re innocent, ain’t you! Does Three Hundred dollars lay around every day for people to pick up? Some folks think the black fellow ain't far from here. I’m One of them… Now trot along and if you get into trouble you send word to Mrs.Judith Loftus , which is me and I’ll do what I can to get you out of it.” Leaving her unacknowledged that Huck was helping Jim , and leaving Huck worried that her husband found Jim already. Forcing him to come up with another false story to get out of …show more content…

That because of him telling the truth he was able to achieve more respect, and more stronger bonds with different people , like the sisters. Huck felt bad for them because they were about to lose everything so he said ,'' I felt so ornery and low down and mean that I said to myself , my mind was made up; I’ll take the money from them and give it back to the girls and tell them everything.” Predicting in the story that because of Huck's honesty , the sisters were going to help him and Jim in the future escape the problems that the King and Duke had created , because of their greediness and

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