Huck Finn Point Of View Analysis

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, like many novels and works of literature, is a story told by Huck Finn through the first-person narrator-participant point of view. Readers can support this fact by the very first sentence of the novel. Huck Finn quotes, “You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain’t no matter” (Twain 11). Huck immediately introduces himself to the audience, and displays his character and voice through his view point. Therefore, through this view point, the audience must skeptically rely on Huck to lead them through the novel, because all of the information produced and supplied is relayed through Huck and only Huck. Granting all this, the reader takes Huck for

Although he understands the laws of society, he struggles to understand the reason behind the laws. This is obviously portrayed through Huck’s continuous friendship with Jim, a runaway slave. He know that society would expect him to turn Jim into the authorities, but his own moral code stands in the way of what society views as “right”. While speaking to Jim, he talks to him as if he were his equal when Jim confides in Huck. After Huck promises that he will not tell anyone about his whereabouts, Huck says, “Honest injun, I will. People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum – but that don’t make no difference. I ain’t a-going to tell, and I ain’t a-going back there, anyways” (Twain 53-54). Huck displays his maturity through this by making a moral decision concerning another equal human being’s life. Although this novels is revealed through Huck’s eyes, Twain tends to include himself, as do most writers in their own works. Through Huck’s point of view, Twain wishes to portray the fallacies in religion, law, racism, and many other universal moral dilemmas. Huck Finn’s point of view ultimately supports themes throughout the novel. Why did Twain decide to use a child’s point of view? Was this perspective the only option he had to persuade