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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"We judged that three nights more would fetch us to Cairo."
Hope
"I felt bad about Jim, because I had called him."
Kindness
"Slavery is a terrible thing."
Justice
"A person's conscience ain't made of the right material."
Wisdom
"I couldn't think of nothing else to do."
"These two frauds took us in, the whole lot of us."
"We was always naked, day and night, whenever the mosquitoes would let us."
Freedom
"I loved them both considerably."
Love
"The island was lovely and peaceful."
Peace
"Human nature won't allow it."
"I reckon Tom Sawyer was right about one thing."
Wisdom
"I'll do it for you, Jim, because I love you."
Love
"I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me"
Freedom
"All right, then, I'll go to hell"
Courage
"It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things"
Truth
"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
Literature
"The widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me"
Education
"I liked the old ways best, but I was getting so I liked the new ones a little"
Change
"We said there was no home like a raft, after all"
Freedom
"I was powerful glad to get away from the feuds"
Peace
"It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars"
Nature
"It grieved me to have to go on being mean to Jim"
Kindness
"Conscience don't go for nothing when you got to decide what's right"
"I would go down and fix it so nobody couldn't find any fault with me"
"The raft was a whole world by itself"
Imagination
"I felt bad and mean, like I had done something wicked"
"We were always naked, day and night, whenever the mosquitoes would let us"
Nature
"I never felt easy till the raft was gone"
"The Widow made me wear shoes, which ill fitted me"
Freedom
"I couldn't ever feel bad nor sorry for them afterwards"