... will), felt or even thought about feeling sympathetic for him. Widow Douglas based her actions on what the book told her and what her society told her. Miss. Watson never reasoned and never actually realized that Jim is also a person who should be helped out. Huck did not fit their society, " but it was rough living ... his friend, Tom Sawyer, that it is bad to help a run away slave, and yet he still helped Jim. I guess that even though at first Miss. Watson is shown as the follower of her society, she did reason somehow because by the end she does fee Jim, and not just sell him. This s...

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... begin with, Jim is the property of the most pious, Bible-thumping woman in Huck's life -- Miss Watson -- and Huck's entire society would back up her ethical right to own him. Although Miss Watson is definitely not Huck's favorite person, the boy initially rebels only against her attempts to "civilize" him ... -- the "bad place," Huck calls it -- he innocently asserts he wants to go there because Miss Watson says she wouldn't go there for the world, and he concludes that anywhere Miss Watson wasn't sounds like a good destination to him. There is absolutely no indication that Huck finds an...

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... boys find a hidden treasure in a cave, that make them rich. Since Huck doesn't have a family he is taken in by the widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson. The women do all they can to bring Huck up to be a decent boy with manners, etiquette; they also send him to school and to church. Huck isn't ... a fan of this proper upbringing, but he is compliant to Miss Watson and her ways. Huck's father hears about the money and wealth his son has, so he goes to court to get custody of Huck just for his money. ... most of his time. I"m not saying to skip school to have a good time, but you mak...

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... moral journey he makes many observations on religion, and how it takes many different forms. Huck observes Miss Watson's strict religion with its rules, rigidity, and emotional dryness. He also observes the opposite of Miss Watson's religion at the camp meeting, with the overly emotional mass of crying and screaming. Huck sees the hypocritical ... organized religions he observes Huck is able to see the practical flaws they all have. For example when Miss Watson tries to show Huck how to pray he sees nothing logical about it, "Then Miss Watson took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing ...

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... really care for Moses because he is dead and has been for a long time. Huck also meets Widow Douglas sister, Miss Watson. After meeting her, he is unwilling to act civilized for Miss Watson because of his dislike for her, "She said it was wicked to say what I said; said she wouldn't say it ... and sticking to the status of their race. In the beginning of the story Huck says, "Alright then, I'll go to hell". Because Miss Watson told him that Tom Sawyer would probably going there, and in the end Huck would be going to hell anyway if he helped Jim escape. Another powerful ... Jim is like a...

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... what little prospects that were handed down to him from society and eventually understands cruelty. Even people meant to be caretakers can reflect society's imperfections; Miss Watson is one of those. She meant well, yes, but that doesn't mean her methods were exactly the most helpful. From her point of view ... Huck's seemingly inappropriate behavior. From Huck's perspective, it is rather unnecessary to correct his behavior because he never corrects anyone else's. It shows that Miss Watson is somewhat of a hypocrite. Going along with this as another example, she doesn't want Huck to sm...

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... The one work that I feel Twain expressed the most in is his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This story starts out with the widow Douglas and Mrs. Watson taking Huckleberry in and trying to civilize him. Huck did not like the way they were trying to raise him so he snuck out and decided to run ... away. When he and Tom snuck out they ran into Jim which is Mrs. Watson's slave and started playing tricks on him. Tom eventually convinces Huck to stay by promising him to start and of robbers. The band of robbers eventually ends ... his father's footprints. He assumes that his father has...

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... At the end of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck's dad had left him, and the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, adopted him. Widow Douglas and Miss Watson's attempt to civilize Huck was only partially successful. Huck learned to read and write but he still would climb out of his window ... Huck eventually ends up escaping his father by faking his own death and goes to Jackson Island. Once at Jackson Island, Huck meets up with Jim, Miss Watson's slave, who has run away because she threatened to sell him. The two of them, Huck and Jim, end up living a life of freedom on ... he ta...

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... a part of by encountering many different characters. These characters will unknowingly turn this innocent and perceptive young boy into a moral-based and caring young man. Miss Watson tries to show Huck the good of Christianity, while the King and Duke prove to him that there are always some people left in the world who are ... to save a man whom he never considered would be a friend for life. Huck is unable to grasp Miss Watson's religion. He does not care for the past and takes " no stock in dead people-(Twain 4). Miss Watson tells Huck that if he prays for something, he will get it. H...

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... they land, the Duke sells Jim to a nearby farm, and forces Huck to confront his primary moral dilemma. Huck is now faced with the choice of either writing to Miss Watson to turn Jim in or going to rescue his friend and faithful partner. Huck has the pressure of society to do the 'right' thing and turn Jim back in to ... Miss Watson but he cannot overcome his personal feelings for Jim which they had developed on their adventures downriver. After hours of internal tug-of-war, Huck reveals his decision to follow ... Finn is finally shown in it's honest form when Huck decides to run away t...

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... the agonizing process from childhood to adulthood where he attains self-knowledge and discovers his own identity. Throughout the journey down the Mississippi River, Jim, Ms. Watson's runaway slave, accompanies Huck, and is later joined by two con men. It is during this journey that a great moral crisis in Huck's life occurs ... where he must make a painful decision as to whether he is going to give Jim up to the slave hunters or notify Ms. Watson about Jim's whereabouts and assist him to remain a free man. This is the turning point in his character where through deep introspection, he l...

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... of the laws of society for those of the river. To Huck, society takes many forms; it is the shore, St. Petersburg, the widow, Ms. Watson, the Grangerfords, and the Shepherdsons. All of these elements of society equate unpleasantness for Huck. Although the Grangerfords take Huck in and are kind to him, ... really happening between the two. The pivotal point in Huck and Jim's relationship unfolds as Huck struggles over whether or not to write a letter to Ms. Watson confessing what he had done, and where Jim was. This is also a major point in Huck's constant battle with his own sense of mor...

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... element of his story, which leads into the irony of the novel. "The novel is filled with satirical sketches, sometimes subtle and sometimes broad, from the opening pictures of Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas to Huck's final decision to 'light out for the territory' to escape civilization. " (Johnson 224). Another element of the novel, morality, becomes a constant hurdle for Huck ... the region and formality appropriate to social level. Twain denotes education and social status by employing formal or informal diction within the dialect of each character. For example, when Miss Watson s...

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... and life for the sake of his friend, Huck. Everything about Jim is presented through emotions as evident in his reason -2- for running away from Miss Watson's; in his aspirations to buy his family's freedom; and in his protection and care form Huck throughout their journey. Twain's purpose is to make the reader ... known, Huck, along with the rest of the community, viewed slaves as property, therefore, Huck was helping to steal the property of poor old Miss Watson. Huck knew that he would be in trouble with the law if he concealed this and he also knew that his reputation would be ruine...

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... than any other character in the novel because he learns how to respect Jim. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim runs away from his slave owner, Miss Watson. By doing a thing like that Jim could have been killed or beat. The people of Jim's society would not have even listened to him or even considered his reason. "Well ... , you see, it "uz dis way. Ole missus - dat's Miss Watson - she packs on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she alwuz said she wouln" sell me down to Orleans. But she could git eight hund"d dollars ... me". Twain wanted to show, through Ji...

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... and what is wrong, and the moral decisions of helping a runaway slave. While living on Jackson's Island and thinking that is all by himself, he meets Jim who was Miss Watson's slave and soon realize that he ran off. Here Huck faced with his first tough decision, to go with Jim and help him, or just tell and get a reward. Then ... authorities or not. Still not sure what to do about the whole situation Huck feels bad because he says Miss Watson never did anything to him that she deserved her slave being taken away. Conscience says to me, "What had poor Miss Watson done to you, that you co...

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... hide there for a while. After being on the island for awhile he stumbles upon a campfire and decides to seek who made the fire (J.N. Smith 1). The next day he finds Miss Watson's slave, Jim, is also living on the island. Jim ran away because he overheard the Widow talking to a slave trader about selling Jim. If he was sold then he would ... would rather just go to the "bad place", hell, than have to live with the Widow Douglas who is trying to make him fit in with society. Miss Watson even tells him that there is no way that him and Tom Sawyer will ever go to the "good place", heaven. H...

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... debated issue of the time that runs through the heart of the novel, the idea of slavery. The issue of race and slavery is manifested in Huck's letter to Miss Watson where he details the pickup location of Jim, her runaway slave. Huck may not actively take part in society, but he is cognizant of the popular view on slavery in ... with the runaway slave that he "stole" up until the very end. Huck knows that the morally right thing to do would be to return Jim to Miss Watson. With this in mind, he writes the letter to her, but he is not quick to send it out after he finishes it. Instead, h...

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... gone. He walks down the road and runs into a boy that tells him that Jim is locked up at the Phelps place. Huck sits down and writes a letter to Mrs. Watson telling her to send the reward and she can get Jim back. Before he sends it he starts thinking of all the good times they had and how good of ... and brings him back. Aunt Sally won't let him out to find Tom. Then some men bring in Jim wanting to hang him. Tom wakes up and says that Mrs. Watson let Jim free in her will. When they hear that they let him go and feed him. Huck gives him forty dollars for his troubles. Huck and Tom now ...

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... Jim in or helping him because it causes conflict with the principles that he has learnt from society and his emotions and morality. When Huck writes the letter to Miss Watson, he feels "good and all washed of sin for the first time,"" the letter is symbolising society and it is Huck conforming to it, but Huck rejects society and it ... heaven and is doing the right thing. Huck has convinced himself that he has gone against society we see how strongly he feels about disrespecting his town and especially Miss Watson, and would be go down on his knees and "be ready to get down and lick his...

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... brought to the reader via the theme of slavery. Huck was brought up living in an "uncivilized- manner. However, he was brought under the caring wing of the widow Miss. Watson who attempted to "sivilize- him. Eventually Huck is ordered to be under the custody of his father. Loathing the experiences of practically being enslaved by his father, Huck escapes his ... escape the captivity of his father, because many slaves felt the necessity of escaping from their enslavement. Soon Huck met up with Jim, "Miss. Watson's big nigger- (Twain 6). Huck learned that Jim had run away from Miss. Watso...

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... moral decisions based on his instinct on what's right and what's wrong. He does not realize that his independent decisions have better morals then those of the civilized world. Mrs. Watson, the widow's sister and another ideal citizen, owns a slave named Jim. Even though she promises he will never be sold, she betrays him without hesitation when she is offered a large ... sum of money. "Mrs. Watson, she picks on me all the time and treats me rough, but she always said she wouldn't sell me down to Orleans. But I noticed there was a nigger trader round the ... the free states Huck starts...

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... heart. After making this decision though, he faces inner turmoil again after Jim is sold to the Phelps: "It was a close place. I took . . . up [the letter I'd written to Miss Watson], and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to ... to the Phelps by the duke and king. Huck faces great guilt and peril over whether or not he should free Jim, eventually he starts to write a letter to Miss Watson to return Jim. But as he writes the letter, his thoughts turn ...

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... with Jim and the relationship the two have developed over the course of that time. At some point in his contemplation he decides to write a letter to Jim's owner, Mrs. Watson, telling her the whereabouts of Jim. Still, Huck continues to have some difficulties, until finally: with the letter in hand, he says, "All right, then, I'll go to hell" (214 ... ). All the muscles in Huck's body tell him to do the "right thing, " to send his letter to Mrs. Watson, and to turn Jim in back to slavery, but his heart tells him otherwise: to rescue Jim. Certainly, no one wants to accept their fate in he...

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... to both runaways. The moral and societal importance of the adventure with Huck and Jim is shown in Huck's profound moral crisis about whether he should return Jim to Miss Watson. In one sense, Huck has stolen $800 from her, the price the slave trader offers for Jim. Jim tells Huck, "Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on"y white ... Huck from turning Jim in. When Huck realizes that he would have felt worse for turning Jim in than he does now for not doing the "right" thing by Miss Watson or society, Huck makes a decision to deny society's morality in favor of what his conscience tells hi...

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