Huck Finn post 1

    In the novel Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain Huck's personality is immediatly determined. Huckleberry Finn is a child with no family except for the widow he lives with. Being short a mother and a father it would be expected that Huckleberry Finn would be a messed up kid. However he is actually decent, he makes mistakes like every other person. The fact that he accepts the widow as a mother figure is sign that he is accepting and compassionate. "The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of another names, too, but she never meant no harm by it" (6 Twain). Huckleberry Finn didn't mind that she treated him like a son. The fact that he didn't mind shows that he is a compassionate person.
     Huckleberry Finn is not only a compassionate person but very superstisious. All of the little gimicks and things that cause good and or bad luck Huck highly believes in. "There was a cross in the left boot-heel made with big nails, to keep off the devil" (25). In just that one sentence there are three superstisions. Huckleberry Finn is also a very stubborn person but he doesnt neccesarily push things. "After breakfast I wanted to talk about the dead man and guess out how he come to be killed, but Jim didn't want to" (75). He wanted to talk about how the man died but he didn't push it with Jim. Huck wants to and keeps thinking and thinking. Overall Huckleberry Finn is an extrodinary charecter in the American literature world.