Huck Fin Essay Exam 1

Huck's moral dilemma is that he is trying to help Jim escape down south so the widow can't sell him. Huck is developing by him getting smarter along the way, like they use to travel during the day but now they travel at night because there is nobody out at night to see them. Also knowing like in chapter 19 when Huck and Jim know when it's about to be morning by the candle in the windows so the house that they past to let them know it was time to get out of the water and get ashore.

Huck is doing the right thing by helping Jim escape. Because Jim doesn't want to get sold, so Huck is a very lenient guy and is helping Jim escape from the widow. In (Chap8 pg.32-36) is when Huck and Jim begin to runway together. Huck is doing the right thing because he know if he didn't hunters were going to find Jim and sell him to some slave owner,and Huck might have that own his consionts saying maybe I should have helped Jim escape when I had the chance. Also Huck can help Jim out by avoid being seen by him self and not getting caught by the wrong people.

Huck feels if he doesn't help Jim he is going to get sold, and then Jim wouldn't be able to take care of his family.So Huck and Jim travel along the Missouri R. to get to the free state, and along the way they meet some hunters looking for a missing slave and Huck comes up with a lie so the hunters wont Know that he is helping a runaway slave by saying his pap has the chicken pox. Huck also helps Jim by them traveling at night rather than during the day so nobody wont see them to traveling to together.

All in all Huck's faces a dilemma by helping Jim escape down the Missouri R. with out them two getting caught by any slave catchers. They do this be traveling at night, watching out for the wrong kinds of people. And by Huck making up lies along the way about how his pap is sick or how made up family members died along the way down the river. They also watch for candles in the Windows to tell whether its time to pull ashore and hide.