In Mark Twain's novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the narrator in question is none other than Huckleberry Finn himself. This novel dictates the first-hand experience of a Mississippi boy who relates his adventures throughout his own childhood. His reliability as a narrator depends on whether or not his first-hand account of his adventures may prove to be true. Through Huckleberry Finn's narration, Mark Twain explores the idea of subjectivity and the limitations of human understanding to force the reader to question their own assumptions and biases. Huckleberry Finn is an unreliable narrator all throughout the novel. He is an uneducated young boy who has a very limited worldview. He is often misguided and swayed by others, specifically …show more content…
As a result, he often changes his mind and contradicts himself, making it difficult for the reader to trust him as a narrator. Another example of Huckleberry's unreliable narration is his understanding of Jim's character. At the beginning of the novel, he views him as a small-minded slave who is gullible. And, almost giving in to the pressure from society, he thinks about turning in Jim to the authorities to earn long-needed respect from his peers and those in his town. However, as the novel progresses and Huckleberry and Jim spend time together, he then begins to view Jim as a human person with feelings, emotions, and aspirations. This dawning leads Huckleberry to help Jim escape to freedom and go against the South's doctrine. Huckleberry's unreliable narration brings to light the limitations of human understanding. By using Huckleberry's viewpoints on race, morality, and societal norms, he challenges the reader's assumptions. Mark Twain uses Hucklberry's inconsistent, flawed thinking to showcase that no one has all the answers and almost everyone has their own