Huckleberry Finn’s Moral Compass

Nathan Walker Mr. Dickenson Period 3 1/7/12 amateur Keith Neilson writes, And so huckleberry Finn ends, one of the saddest happy finishs in literature. Jim is free, after an awful innovation that nearly gets him lynched. Tom is almost killed, yet learns nothing from the experience. But Hucks loss seems the greatest of all. After finally letting his magnetic core overcome all of the prejudices and moral inhibitions that society has put into his head, having determined to stand firm society to go whole hog to rescue his friend Jim, he meets Tom Sawyer and immediately crawls back under Toms Romantic Wing.Hucks character and moral nature seem go againstOne of the greatest characters in literature has been forced to go rearwards and we feel cheated. For years, critics have argued over the finishing of Huckleberry Finn. Critics tear apart theracial content, issues about gender and sexuality, and most interestingly the ongoing controversy over the final chapters. The debate remains regardingwhether or not duo wrote the ending with a purpose, or if he just took an easy stylus out. For example, the ending comes abruptly.In addition, readers are upset abouthow Huck disappears and Tom reemerges. On the new(prenominal) hand, others feel that the ending is a masterpiece. Personally, I can see some(prenominal) sides of the debate. On one hand, it seems that brace created a masterpiece just to emit it away at the end. We see that Huck, who we were rooting for all along, has not changed and go forth continue to carry out Toms whims and fantasies. All the mature he has made with Jim has been destroyed. This is one of the manyaspects that make the novel picaresque. On the other hand however, I can see why duet did what he did.In order to be honest with Hucks character, Twain could not have allowed Huck to become the hero. Furthermore, in the time cessation of the Southern 1800? s, if Huck had changed his ways, society would have been shocked. If society hated t he book, Twains message would not have been so wide dot as it was, as the book would have probably banned. Another executable idea is that Twain wanted to make his readers wonder, and emerge them to make their own decisions. One thing is sure however, either way you translate the ending Twain sure knows how to stir controversy.