Huckleberry Finn

Character in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn From: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Protagonist and narrator; a resourceful orphan with a distinctive voice and perspective on society

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"He don't mean no harm. He is always a-doing something."
Kindness
"I went to sleep, and Jim didn't call me when it was my turn."
Friendship
"I was ever so grateful; so I told him I wouldn't forget him ever, and I wouldn't, neither."
Gratitude
"Blamed if I can see no p'ints about it, that's so."
Humor
"I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden on to."
"I felt bad and mean, because I knowed very well I had done wrong."
"Providence had ordered the thing so, as we reckoned."
Faith
"There was some books too, and things in them that warn't true."
Literature
"I was the most astonished. I didn't know nothing to do."
"Sometimes I lifted my head and listened over the water."
Solitude
"I couldn't see no sense in the most of it."
Education
"That warn't no proper way to treat a dog."
Kindness
"I can't ever do nothing right in this world."
"I felt fine and dandy after that."
Happiness
"Money don't signify a thing to him."
Money
"I was a coward, and I knew it."
Courage
"That was the only thing that ever grieved me afterwards."
"I couldn't ever understand before, until that minute and that talk."
Wisdom
"I wanted to go to sea, but she wouldn't let me."
Adventure
"I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place is taking considerable many risks."
Truth
"If he hadn't said 'pap' before, I would a thought he was dead."
"The pitifulest thing out is a person that ain't got no more sense than a crab."
Humor
"All right, then, I'll go to hell."
Courage
"It was a close place."
Adventure
"I couldn't pray a lie."
Truth
"I don't take no stock in dead people."
Wisdom
"There ain't nothing more to write about."
Literature
"I felt bad and mean."
"We said there warn't no home like a raft."
Freedom
"I reckon I got to light out for the Territory."
Adventure