Huck is still quite an interesting character. :) As a reader of his adventureous tales, I'm beginning to see even more of his personal struggles with ethical decisions. What kind of morals does the kid have anyway? One minute he feels deeply guilty about one thing or another - feeling bad for tricking Jim, or wondering if he really should be helping a runaway slave, and so on and so on - but then the next minute he talks with a stranger and lies to his face! Why doesn't he feel guilty for that? I just don't know. However, this makes me think of something... How often do we let hypocrisy in our own lives go unnoticed - hmmm? Oooo... Well, I'll get back to the story now.
Huck finally does come to a conclusion about his sense of morality: he will do whatever comes "handiest." Now there's a foundation for you! Not. That's called Relativism - a fancy word for a lame excuse to take no responsibility in life and pretend there aren't consequences because truth doesn't exist anyway! Riiiight. Now Huck - I'm going to give him some slack. This boy has not grown up in good circumstances, since the only genuinely godly influence on his life was the widow - and that for only a short while. That doesn't excuse him, but we can at least see that he has not had the same experiences we have had to learn more about good morals and so on. Anyway, Huck's had a rough life, but choosing what's most convenient at the time every time there's a moral decision to be made is not the best option to take.
~Huckleberry's Friend
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