Huck Finn's Moral Dilemma Exam 1-23

Melissa Natzke
10-30-07

Well in Huckle Berry Finn it starts out that he lives with a lady named Widow Douglas and she takes good care of him. She also tries to make sure he knows how to behave and respect others. Becuase in the book she "Tels himdon't scrunch up like that" and " set up straight" only because she wants him to be a good boy a gentle man when he get's older. Well in the middle of the book Huck discovers his father isn't dead because he seen foot prints in the snow. When he got home his father was in his room waiting for him. Pap didn't approve that Huck was getting an education, Pap thought Huck was trying to be better then him.

Pap wanted Huck to come and live with him. Because Pap didn't agree with Miss Widow Douglas and wanted Huck to stop getting his education. Pap was basiclly telling Huck that he can't be better then him. Huck was doing bad things because he's father was a bad influence on him. His father asked him where Huck's money was because someone told him that Huck was rich. But Huck wouldn't tell him who had his money because if he did then his father would get drunk. Pap asked Huck if he had money and he said yesand Pap made him give it to him. Well anyways my point is that Pap was infact a bad influence as well as a parent. Becuase Pap would beat on Huck.

So Huck Got sick and tried of it, so he decide to fake his own death to get away from him.They were in a cabin and Huck found an old saw blade and started to cut a place or a whole to get out of. Well oneday he got a chance to do it. His father went out and wasn't going to be back for awhile. So when Huck got out he got a pig and put him in a sack with bricks so it would be heavy. He dragged it from the front door to the river.

This change Huck's character a lot becuase before he was a good boy, he had everything, a good home, education and people who cared about him. Now he has no home because he ran away because of his father beating on him. Also Huck changed because his father wanted him to do bad things. Forexample like steal and lie about his idenity when he was Sarah Williams.

Huck's decision to runaway and fake his death was wrong. I don't blame him for running away because I wouldn't want to be beat on either. Even though his father beats on him, he shouldn't have faked his own death because then the Widow Douglas wouldn't know if he was or not. Miss Douglas really cares about him and it would hurt her.