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Event:
As the adventure of Huck and Jim progresses, Huck encounters two men on a hunt for escaped slaves and so he finds him in a moral dilemma. When asked if there is a black on board his raft, he struggles with an answer. He rattles his brain out and finally decides to lie on Jim’s behalf. He tells the white men that it is only his sick family. He leads them to believe that he is dire need of their help to buckle the raft, a situation he claims no one else would help them with. He smoothly tells a white lie and gets away with it. Huck does this because he would have felt bad if he had turned Jim in, yet after he feels bad that he did not follow society’s orders and return Jim to his owner.

Analysis:
Huck, at first, was about to leave the raft to tell someone that he knows the whereabouts of a slave. However, in effect to Jim’s friendly love towards Huck, he figures that he should not break his promise to his friend. Instead, he lies to the white men and saves Jim from falling back into the hands of slavery. As a result, he still has regrets about disobeying society.

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