In his interactions with Mary Jane, we see Huck as a person with a conscience. How does that encounter serve to strengthen his character (both in a literary and moral sense)? How does his character development relate to the question of conscience vs. society?
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Huck has been learning how to deal with his conscience in a very adult way of letting himself figure out what is right instead of just doing what society says he should do. Not many people do that, back in that time and even today people cannot seem to always be able to follow what his/her conscience says. Huck is learning that he must follow his conscience before he lets other things interfere with what he believes now that he has gotten out on his own and doesn't have to follow the complete rules of society.
In the beggining of the story we see huck as this out of control child. He is only twelve or thirteen years old but uyet he is still off by himself on the river. Huck is'nt afraid to pull pranks on people scan them out of money. The story starts out with Huck joining a gang, which was supposed to be a ruthless gang of cold hearted killers. Later in the story Huck and Jim meet up with two very shady characters named the King and Duke. These two men take the con artists to a new level. After a while Huck statrs to see that what they are doing is wrong and we can really see a cgange in the young Huck.
This encounter with marry jane strenghthens his moral characterby showing he actually is listening to his conscience and acting on it. It shows he is really sweet and cares about others underneath, unlike the duke and the king. This character development relates to the question of conscience vs. society, by showing that huck is finally listening to his conscience rather than what society is telling him to do. I honestly believe he is starting to ,morally, be a better person.
Huck improves his character by developing a clean conscience. Instead of standing by and doing nothing while the Duke and the King rob the girls he actually tells Mary Jane the truth. In the past he just ignored what the Duke and King were doing,and he made himself feel better by saying it wasn't his problem. Not only did he tell the truth,but he also makes a plan to reveil the Duke and King for who they are and get the money back to the girls. Huck has strengthen his character a great deal, because he is now starting to stand up for what he thing is right morally.
Huck has been developing throughout the story. He is starting to develop a sense of right and wrong through his own experiences and not what is the norm.
Huck has grown up because of his journey and because he has to take care of himself and Jim. Now that Huck has been on his own for a while, he has to think for himself. Huck starts to take pride in his own thoughts rather than society's thoughts.
The encounter with Mary Jane helps Huck to trust himself and shows he's beginning to learn the difference between right and wrong. Huck is learning to follow his conscience rather than just accept what people tell him. As a character he is becoming more mature.
Huck's character from the moment that he meets Mary Jane till the end of the scam of taking her money has a moral conflict. Here he is doing nothing different to her than anyone else he has scammed before but this time he feels bad for it. He watches the hurt that Mary Jane is caused by her fathers death and she is so excited to go to England or so she thinks. The fact that he knows how hurt she will be when the king and the duke leave them with nothing makes him feel guilty.
Hucks encounter with Mary Jane helps to strengthen his character because he finally clears his conscience by telling her about the King and the Duke robbing the girls. He also makes a plan to help the girls by getting the money back. By doing this, it strengthens him alot morally because he is finally doing the right thing instead of standing back and watching while bad things happen.
Huck's encounter with Mary Jane serves to strengthen his character because Huck shows sympathy for Mary Jane's feelings towards the slave mother being seperated from her kids. By Huck telling Mary Jane that the slave mother will be reunited with her kids and that the Duke and the King are frauds it shows that Huck was more worried about Mary Jane's feelings than wether the King and the Duke get away with the money and dont get caught. This character developement relates to conscience vs. society because Huck knows that he's doing wrong by help tricking the Wilks family [[the society]] for the Duke, the King, and himself.
Throughout the journey of the story Huck has also been experiencing another journey with himself. This is his inner journey of becoming mature. Before his encounter with Mary-Jane Huck never really cared about any one else, but the further we get into the book the more Huck starts to care about other people ans starts doing what he thinks is right and not just what society tells him is right.
Huck's conscience becomes clearer after his encounter with Mary Jane. He tells Mary Jane the truth about the Duke and the King. This shows us that Huck is beginning to grow up not only physically but mentally. His conscience is beginning to reflect his own thoughts, not those of the discriminant world around him.
Huck has been learning right and wrongs from the start, just like every child. He is just in a different environment. Slowly he is gaining knowledge of the better ways to deal with the awkward situtaions he is faced with.
This encounter with Mary Jane has made Huck grow up a little bit. It takes a bigger person to step up and do what they think is right than to go along with society. It would have been easy for Huck to go along with the Duke and the King, but by choosing not to we know that he has a conscience and that he is in the process of growing up.
Huck is starting to think for himself, rather than believe everything that his racist bum father told him. He is harboring a runaway slave, and after contimplating hturing Jim in, he decided to help his new friend Jim. he still does have some racist ideals, but you can't expect someone who was brought up so wrong to forget everything. Huck is going against these men that are benefiting him, to protect another family. Huck is learning that he has to do what he feels is right, not what other people tell him to do.
I believe that Huck is growing up pretty fast. He is starting to get a conscience and he is starting to feel bad for helping the Duke and the King for so long. He starts to see that what the Duke and the King are doing is just flat out wrong. He is starting to choose his conscience over what society. Instead of doing what everyone says he is doing what his conscience is telling him to.
Huck has learned a lot since he first started his journey. He has matured and his morals have developed by the time he and Mary Jane talk. He feels sorry for her and his conscience takes over and makes the right choice for him. It proves that Huck does not always have to do what the Duke and King are doing and that he can make his own decisions based on his own morals.
Huck has been maturing like any young boy would. His personal experiences are changing the way he deals with his problems. Even though his experiences are more serious that the average boys experiences. Huck is learning the hard way how to be an adult. At the start if the book he wanted to be an adult, but now later on in the book, Huck has become an adult through his experiences on the river and being alone in the real world.
Huck definently goes through a major change in this novel. We see him maturing from a young rebellious kid to a caring young man. By showing the reader how dedicated he is to help Mary Jane out, we can really see how much stronger and wiser he's gotten. He knows that he needs to start thinking for himself and do what he thinks is right and makes sense. Instead of doing something wrong against the society (scamming people) he choses to go with his consience and help Mary Jane.
in the first of the story we viewed huck as dumb and cruel, but as he progresses throught the story and molded by the ones he meets, he seems to discover himself. In the case of mary jane he finds himself in a moral delema of keeping the secret of the Duke and King or tell her the truth. In the end he does the noble thing to help MJ. This is helping us to see huck as more of a hero.
Huck has been learning on his journey about the meaning of right and wrong. Until the point he deals with Mary Jane, he has shown little moral greatness and relys on what he thinks. But when he deals with the situation with Mary Jane, he shows moral greatness that he has not shown before in the story. He realizes what is right and wrong, and decides to help her.
In the beginning of the story Huck has a conscience of a child, but as the story goes on we see him change. Not only has this trip changed Huck, but it's given him a different outlook. Huck is deciding what he thinks is right rather than society. By helping Jim escape is one main thing in the story. Also with Mary Jane, and helping her retrieve the money that the King and the Duke stole. For any person it would be the right thing to do in the first place, and Huck has relised that he is going to do the right thing, and he doesn't care what the Duke or the King think really. He is following his conscience, because what the King and the Duke are doing is an act of creulty. When they can take everything away from this family so that after all of it's done they will have a big haul, and Mary Jane and her sisters will have nothing, not even a home. Huck is learning to follow his conscience rather than society's thoughts and that's one thing that will probably be more promenet and will continue with Huck for the rest of the story.
Huck started off as someone with no concious to speak of and simply did what he needed to do to get by. When he ran off he thought nothing of the Widow Douglas and all the other people in the town who knew him and cared for him. As we see throughout the story Huck becomes a better person because his concience starts to show. When he felt bad about the trick he played on Jim which shows that he has the ability to regret something he has done for just pleasure. We see his character becoming more human like at the end of chapter 28 when he tells Mary Jane about Duke and Kings plan to ake the money and how he hid it. This shows that Huck has established some form of right and wrong and can make more human like choices than those of a emotionless robot.
Huck does have a conscience throughout this story. In the story Huck uses his conscience for wrong and right things. When Jim was describing his plans to steal back his children, Huck's conscience lead him to think that it is not right for black man to steal from a white man. But later throughout the story when Huck meets Mary Jane, his conscience leads him to doing the right thing. He doesn't want Mary Jane to go through all what he has been through. This shows the reader that Huck does have a good conscience and that he is growing stronger and developing a hero-like quality.
It seems to me like Huck is maturing and learning how to deal with how he's feeling on the inside better than he has been. Huck is paying more attention to his conscience, and what should be done instead of just going along with society's standards, which in that day were pretty low. He can really see how cruel the Duke and the King are, and he realizes that it's not appropriate for anyone to act that way. We begin to see his character develop more adult-like qualities as he listens to his conscience instead of the views of other people.
Huck has a good sense of conscience and this is apparent in parts of the story, such as his encounter with Mary Jane. Huckleberry Finn seems to grow mentally strong over the course of the story, and we begin to see a change in his cahracter from a small boy to a more matured, thoughtful man. When he encounters Mary Jane, we can see that Huck does, in fact, have an understanding for other people rather than just an understanding for himself. This character development shows how Huck is capable of acting on his own thoughts rather than the cruel and ruthless decisions society makes for everyone. In the story, society really has a pull on peoples actions and this is the point in the story when Huck begins to realize he can break away from those chains.
In the beginning of the story, Huck is a foolish child, because he does as others do around him. What people do is greatly influenced by society. It isn't until later on in the story does Huck start to think on his own level about right and wrong. Huck matures through the story when he meets people that do things morally and ethically wrong and sees what is right and wrong the life. His maturing and conscience grow to make him realize that what is right may not be a standard society has written or believe is right. When Huck explains the situation with Mary Jane, that is when we begin to see the mature person with moral standards Huck is becoming.
This encounter with Mary Jane strengthens his character because he listens to his conscience insted of just doing what society would expect him to do. This is sometimes hard to do because society can be very judgmental. It relates to the question of conscience vs. society because Huck has to choose between the two and which one is the right choice.
Huck's incounter with M.J. helps Him realize that even a rascal like him can be a good person. Before, he had no problem con-ing an entire town, but now that some one is there to show him that he can be an honest person and actually has faith and confidence in him, he is realizing that he can change and with that change have a good conscience.
Huck's encounter with Mary Jane strengthens his character. His feelings of guilt towards what he did towards her show that his character has developed throughout the story. That relates to the question of consience vs. society because now he is starting to use his conscience to create his own viewpoints on things rather than being influenced by society.
In the begining Huck shows us that he is a rough and tough boy for his age. He likes to be outside and dirty, and does not enjoy the things the widow douglas is teaching him. His encounter with Marry Jane shows us that huck really is a caring person and he does have feelings for other perople other than himself. Huck usually would follow other people and do what the society told him to do. But now we see that Huck is starting to follow what his conscience tells him rather than what society tells him. We are starting to see how huck is underneath.
This strengthens his character in a literary sense by showing more sides of Huck. It strengthens him in a moral sense by opening up his conscience to sympathy. Over time Huck begins to realize that what the duke and the king are doing is wrong and that he needs to treat people better. His moral strengthens more and more throughout the story as he sees that he can be better. I think that it is amazing that Huck has began to mature and is becoming a better person even though he has had a very rough childhood.
Huck has been fighting this whole book with his conscience and with society. I one hand he thinks it'll be good to turn in Jim, but on the other hand is interaction with Mary Jane shows that he has learned to start listening to ocnscience. He is starting to grow as a person and as a adult, and he is learning from his experiences and learning when to listen to his conscience.
The encounter with Mary Jane shows that Huck is beggining to get more mature and think of others before himself. This relates to the charater devlopment topic by showing that he is listing to what he thinks is right and not what society thinks is right.
Huck feels sorry for Mary Jane. He does have a conscience and you can see his conscience maturing throughout the book. This conscience strengthens Huck's character because it shows his soft side and it makes him aware that he does have those feelings and he doesn't want to hurt others. He knows this is wrong so his conscience is making him go against what the king and duke are doing or what society is doing. Right now Huck is following his conscience instead of society.
Huck's encounter with Mary Jane strengthens him because he grows up a little bit and his conscience becomes stronger and more clear because he has learned to care for more people and tell the truth instead of going along with other people and society's ideas.
The encounter Huck has with Mary Jane shows that he cares deep down about people. It shows that he is starting to listen to his own conscience and not what society is telling him to do. He is starting to realize that the King and Duke are not good people and what they are doing is wrong. He is changing his ways and maturing in a literal and moral sense.
Huck has come a long way from the begining of the book. After he was talking with Mary Jane he finally realized that he wanted to help her. He is growing up and finding out that life isn't all about scams. Now he is listening to his conscience instead of what society is telling him. He helps Jim out and we know that society does not agree with helping african americans. Huck is finally developing a character and not just a child character, but a whole character.
Within Huck's interactions with Mary Jane we see that he has feelings for the opposite gender just like every other young man. We see that he isn't a hollow, ignorant child anymore. The entrance of Mary Jane humanizes Huck even more.
Huck has come a long way from the begining of the book. After he was talking with Mary Jane he finally realized that he wanted to help her. He is growing up and finding out that life isn't all about scams. Now he is listening to his conscience instead of what society is telling him. He helps Jim out and we know that society does not agree with helping african americans. Huck is finally developing a character and not just a child character, but a whole character.
With his encounters with Mary Jane we can see how much more mature he has become. We can notice that he cares for people a lot more in how he tells Mary Jane everything about the duke and the king and tries to help get their money and house back. he finally realizes he doesn't have to follow the rules of society and can rely on his conscience.
Huck is in the process of strengthening his moral conscience. He sees how the Duke and the King rob the girls, and he tells mary jane the truth. He's growing and maturing, this is obvious because he is starting to distinguish right from wrong.
Huck's conscience is forming itself when he meets Mary Jane because he is understanding the wrong in what the "King" and the "Duke" are doing to her family. We cannot say, however, that this is where his conscience begins to form, because we see him covering the body of the boys who were shot in the lake, so he has a basic understanding of being respectful to the dead. He begins taking up responsiblility himself and doing the right thing instead of standing by and doing nothing, like he did in the other town the fellons conned. He sees the difference between right and wrong, and decides for himself what to do.
I'm not exactly sure that the encounter strengthend his character because in a sense he sees some of himself in Mary Jane and he also likes her so I believe that he is partially thinking with his hormones and not fully with his head.
The encounter has made Huck more mature and he has learned how to deal with things in a better way. He has also has devloped a sense of what is right and wrong.
When Huck meets Mary Jane, his conscience begins to play a large part in who he is. Huck realizes what is right and wrong and tells Mary Jane that the Duke and the King robbed her and the girls. He wants to reveal who they really are and plans to get the money back. He starts to change and realize the right things to do.
When Huck decides to tell Mary Jane of the scam, his character becomes more developed--he is now thinking beyond the childish me me me mindset. He is actually thinking of how this situation affects everyone else.
Huck's moral values are getting deeper too. He knows what is right to the King and the Duke, and he knows what's right to Mary Jane and her sisters. While Huck's conscience says telling Mary Jane is right, the King's and Duke's society tells Huck to be quiet and
go along with the scam. He follows his own individual basis rather than mindlessly following the group.
We get to see Huck maturing and making better choices through his interactions with Mary Jane. He is finally showing us that he knows what's right and that he can follow his conscience. He actually cares about what happens to Mary Jane and her sisters. So he is trying to make things right. He is growing up and listening to his conscience and comparing it to what society has taught him and he is making his own choices, good or bad- but still improving.
Throughout his journey Huck has really grown and matured as a person. By helping Mary Jane it shows that he is starting to do the right thing and developing a good conscience instead of just going along with the others.
In a literary sense, Huck becomes more complex as his conscience develops. He can be seen as more than a child with a child's mindset.
In a moral sense, he's determining what is right and what is wrong. He is more understanding of what is going on around him. With his developing conscience, he is more aware of others, and how actions can affect them.
This character development relates to the questions of conscience vs. society because althought society [[The Duke and King]] want Huck to be quiet about this scam, he still decides to tell Mary Jane about it because he believes that it is right.
huck is starting to see the light. he has spent many of his time with either degenerates, or respectable people who enjoy shoving their morals down other peoples throats. he has found someone he respects and , more importantly, likes that lead by example, and is nice. he has a good, moraly strong friend, that will help guide him.
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As we read farther and farther in the book we notice Huck is growing up. Huck is learning how to be an adult and control his conscience rather than making rash, childish decisions. We learn in the scene between him and Mary Jane that Huck can see what is the right thing to do and he makes sure it happens. Instead of allowing another family to be victims of two frauds, Huck takes the initiative and tells Mary Jane the truth and he not only helps her keep her money, but he also tries to catch the Duke and King in their act. This encounter really does strengthen Huck's character because Huck is now controling his conscience and may be a little bit more of a trusting narrator. Any one with a strong conscience is a strong person and Huck has proved he now is that character. His character development directly relates with conscience vs. society because society has great influence on an individuals decisions and Huck broke away from that manipulation and did the right thing. Huck does have a strong conscience and is now capable of making the right decisions.
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