Lying In Huck Finn

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Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain emphasizes that individuals of different races can develop trust and concern for each other. To start off, trust is established between Jim and Huck when Huck lies in order to keep Jim safe.The text states “Keep away, boy-keep to looard. Your pap’s got the small-pox, and you knew it precious well… Here-I’ll put a twenty dollar gold piece on this board” (Twain 69). At this part of the text, Huck lies to the men that were going to search his raft to prevent them from seeing that he has a runaway slave with him. This establishes trust between Huck and Jim because it shows how Huck is willing to do anything to keep Jim safe because he actually values Jim as a real human-being unlike the

In the novel, Jim and Huck befriended two con men who claimed that one was a Duke forced into America, and one was the rightful King of another land but was sent to the United States to live and loose the throne. The “Duke” and the “King” convinced Huck and Jim to spoil them and act as servants to high royalty. Huck figured that they were fakes but decided to agree because he didn’t want to disrupt the peace on the raft. When they arrived at a particular town, The Duke and The King decide to trick the town residents into attending a shakespeare play put on by none but themselves. The show ended up being terrible but ironically, they convinced the audience to say nothing but good reviews for the show so their friends and family will be tricked into attending the show and then they wouldn’t be the only ones

In Arkansas, near the Arkansas-Missouri-Tennessee border, Jim and Huck take two on-the-run con artists aboard the raft. The younger man, who is about thirty, fakes himself as the long-lost son of an English duke .The older one, about seventy, claims himself to be the Lost Dauphin, the son of Louis XVI and rightful King of France. The "duke" and "king" become successful in becoming permanent passengers on Jim and Huck's raft, committing a series of confidence schemes upon unsuspecting locals all along their journey. To divert suspicions from the public away from Jim, they pose him as recaptured slave runaway, but later paint him up entirely blue and call him the "Sick Arab" so that he can move about the raft without bindings.

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, has many similarities to Stephanie Ericsson’s essay, “The Ways We Lie.” Ericsson’s essay condemns humanity’s ability to lie without remorse and gives examples of the ways people deceive each other. Huckleberry Finn, a young boy who doesn’t follow many rules, lies constantly and consistently uses many of Ericsson’s examples of lies. Because Huckleberry Finn takes place in the 1830’s, it is easy to identify many stereotypes and cliches in this novel, Ericsson’s essay portrays this as a form of lying. When Jim and Huckleberry were on the raft floating away from their town, Huckleberry came to a conclusion that Jim was “uncharacteristically” smart. Huckleberry stated, “He had an uncommon level head for a nigger”

Huckleberry Finn was a very caring character to me. He used his lying for the good things in life. Everybody in their lifetime lies at some point, and hopefully most of the time it's for the better. For example, Huck was often lying to protect or help his friend Jim.

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They turn on each other as well as anyone else in a heartbeat in order to make some money. These con-men were allowed to stay on Huck’s raft, running cons on a multitude of towns during their journey. The King does not reciprocate this kindness to Huck and Jim. Instead, he decides to sell Jim. The group arrive at a new town, and the King goes out to see if they have gotten news of their Royal Nonesuch scam yet. The King doesn’t come back, so Huck and the Duke go looking for him. They eventually find him in a bar, and the King and Duke get into a fight. Huck decides to run away and goes back to the raft to leave with Jim, but Jim isn’t there. Huck asks someone nearby if they say anyone take Jim, and he says a stranger sold him for $40. Huck realizes that it was the King and confronts the Duke about it, “Hain’t he run off?’ ‘No! That old fool sold him, and never divided with me and the money’s gone’” (Twain 216). This action alone shows the King and Duke’s disloyalty. Also, when they were talking, the Duke wasn’t bothered with the fact that Jim was sold, but rather that the King didn’t split the money with him. Throughout the novel, Jim teaches Huck about loyalty, and is then betrayed and sold. Huck goes from thinking of Jim as a slave to thinking of him as a human. However, with the King and the Duke, Huck believes they are cool at first, but by the end of the book he thinks

Lies are a motif seen consistently throughout Huckleberry Finn. Throughout the novel, Huck uses lies and makes up stories to get himself out of trouble and to save Jim. He does not do it to hurt people, and most of his lies do not have negative repercussions. In the entire last section of the book, Huck only lies to get Jim out of being sent back into slavery. Huck has really proved him self to be a person with good intentions- much of what he does is for the good of other people.

As with most works of literature Huck berry it's a small boy plot create a story Lie basically means “an intentionally false statement and for most, lying is bad. However In the Huckleberry Finn lying is also shown as good or bad things. Twain mostly told the truth in previous tale with some and stretched thrown in the although everyone. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn it has many different points of view but Twain shows that there are more than just bad lies because he was try doing some different there are good lies too. Twain uses many of his characters to show that Huck was plays a big part but Twain also uses a numerous other characters it's except Tom's Aunt Polly the Widow Douglas and the maybe a few other girls told lies once a while and he was go one place jami call him hockberry after that he come back with jami one women

"It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no king nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds" (Twain 125). Twain illustrates here that these guys are frauds and would lie and trick others for personal gain. They gained a raft (transportation), they also gained the respect from Jim which they did not deserve, and not just that either. They exploited the ignorance of Huck and Jim to make them serve them as if they were actually kings and dukes.

Another example that indicates hypocrisy in the civilized society in the novel is the biased punishment of crimes according to the society’s rules and regulations. This is shown by the non-judgment of the Duke and the King regardless of the fraudulent schemes that both con artists involved in the community. Huck and Jim rescue the Duke and the King and offer them their raft. The first scheme begins when both criminals present fake identities to Huck and Jim. The Duke introduces himself as the English Duke’s son, also known as the Duke of Bridgewater whereas the King presents himself as the Lost Dauphin as well as Louis XVI’s son and France’s designated King (Twain, 144-145). Additionally, one of the con artists, the Duke, takes advantage of Jim’s race and position as a runway slave and prints leaflets that offer $200 reward to any person that manages to catch the runaway slave. The Duke is

“Next we slid into the river and had a swim, so as to freshen up and cool off; then we set down on the sandy bottom where the water was about knee deep and watched the daylight come.” (88) Huck prefers it to be just he and Jim on the raft. “So, in two seconds, away we went, a sliding down the river, and it did seem so good to be free again and all by ourselves on the big river and nobody to bother us.” (154) So when Huck and Jim encounter two conmen, the “duke” and the “king” to accompany them on their adventures he is not pleased. Huck doesn’t agree with how the king and the duke earn their livings being frauds. When the men are putting on a Shakespearean show “Royal Nonesuch” in the small town of Bricksville a man named Boggs is shot and killed. Huck is repulsed by the reaction of the townspeople:

Lying can be used for good, as well as it can be used for bad. Huck is able to save both himself and his friends by lying, even though society tells him it is wrong. Huck instead separates himself and creates a new identity for himself through lying. But not everyone has other people’s well being in mind. In the King and the Duke’s reign of tricks upon their unsuspecting victims they instead use lying and deceit as a way to get drinking money. Lying and deception play a large role throughout Mark Twain’s, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as it is both a reason and an escape from conflict. Both lying and deception are also used as a way to show the stark difference between appearances and reality because lying is what hides the reality from Huck and the rest of the characters within the

Along the way, they meet the duke and the king, two white people. What Twain is doing here, is to contrast these two cons with Jim, a kind and honest man. The duke and king, over and over again, make up stories, fake their identity to cheat on people and take their money. When they try to be the two brothers of a rich man to take all the iherited money: “Well, when it come to that it worked the crowd like you never see anything like it, and everybody broke down and went to sobbing right out loud -- the poor girls, too; and every woman, nearly, went up to the girls, without saying a word, and kissed them, solemn, on the forehead, and then put their hand on their head, and looked up towards the sky, with the tears running down, and then busted out and went off sobbing and swabbing, and give the next woman a show. I never see anything so disgusting.” (Twain 178). Why was it so disgusting to Huck? The true nature of these two white men, the duke and the king, proves that the stereotypes of racism was completely wrong. There are white people who do not have morality like Jim does. The contrast was too large, to be compared, Jim shall be loved and valued more than the two frauds. While the Victorian women complaint about Huck’s behaviors, considering him