Dec 26, 2009
Huck Finn, the young hero and narrator, is innately good, but his values have been formed by the deeply corrupt, slave-ridden society in which he lives. At the climax of the novel he refuses to betray his friend Jim, the runaway slave with whom he has been traveling, despite his belief that he has thereby condemned himself to Hell.
The story is set in the 1840’s. Huck, the son of the town drunkard in St. Petersburg, Missouri, has been adopted by the Widow Douglas. To escape his father’s bullying and the widow’s misguided kindness, he runs away, and on Jackson’s Island...
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