Huckleberry Finn Lessons

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follows the adventures of Huck, a young white boy, and Jim, an escaped slave, as they travel the Mississippi. Along the way Huck develops a deep friendship with Jim and learns true morals in life. Although the novel excessively uses the N word, it’s lessons in friendship and how it expresses right from wrong makes it a novel that is worth reading and learning from.
The morals; right from wrong, that Huck and others learn throughout Huck Finn make this a novel to be read by others. Living with Pap growing up, he never learned proper morals, but once he got to the Widow his knowledge in choosing right from wrong changed greatly. Huck was always told by Pap that, “it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time” however Widow Douglas ingrained in him that, “it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it”(49). The lesson learned concerning “borrowing” are polar opposites when taught by the Widow and Pap and shows the difference in the influences Huck has in his life. The morality

Following a prank he pulled on Jim, Huck regretted his choices and felt bad for the way he made Jim feel. While it did take Huck a little bit to apologize to him, once he did he never did anything like it again. He also wasn’t sorry for apologizing to him, “I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d a knowed it would make him feel that way”(Twain 65). Huck apologizing to Jim and genuinely caring for his feelings shows a monumental turnpoint in their relationship considering Huck is white and Jim is a slave. Huck’s ability to look past status and color of skin is a lesson many should know look at and follow suite and is a lesson that makes Huck Finn and important novel to be