Huck’s Moral Lessons and His Changing Attitude Toward Jim Essay written by: piscesj38 In many ways, to understand the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the reader must also know a little about the author. Mark Twain was one of the many pen names of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born in 1835 and grew up in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. Twain is considered the father of modern American …showed first 75 words of 1190 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1190 total…continually learns through each individual incident how Jim is a genuine, caring and good person. Slowly, Huck begins to rethink some of the prejudices that he has been taught his whole life. He becomes his own person by choosing what he thinks is right to do, instead of what society says is right. This is difficult task that shows how Huck’s maturity and his ability to think for himself has grown throughout this novel.