Huck Finn Character Analysis

Mark Twain uses his own life the write The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, not that but he uses Huck as an example of how people should truly look at the world. Many topics in the book, which rage from racism to morality, Huck tackles as he travels down the river. Twain satires romanticism throughout the book, showing how life wasn’t always bubbly and happy, but cruel and tempting. Huck’s lessons aren’t meant for just him, they’re also for the reader to think about. As Huck grows from a child to an adult, he learns about responsibility for his actions, the meaning of true friendship, and to disobey society's rules.
Huck truly learns his first bit of responsibility from Jim, who had taken on the fatherly role in Huck's life. Although Huck puts his responsibility to the test as plays pranks on Jim, Huck feels as though these pranks are just harmless games. But to Jim, they’re wicked tricks demeaning to him, causing him to become resentful. When Huck

Throughout the book Jim and Huck’s relationship is put to the test, from racial issues to simple pranks. When Jim gives up his freedom to save Tom, Huck states “I knowed he was white inside, and I reckoned he’d say what he did say—so it was all right now, and I told Tom I was a-going for a doctor. He raised considerable row about it, but me and Jim stuck to it and wouldn’t budge; so he was for crawling out and setting the raft loose himself; but we wouldn’t let him. Then he give us a piece of his mind, but it didn’t do no good.”(Twain 342) In this passage Huck says that Jim “is white inside,” because he gives up his freedom for Tom, this is still racist but at the time and to Huck this was a great admiration. Compared to the King and Duke's relationship, when Jim and Huck first met the King and Duke they both thought about conning each other, soon realizing that their “amazing skills,” would be better if they worked