Huck Finn-Theme

One of the major themes of Huck Finn would be that society is not always right in their way of thinking. Huck has grown up to learn that black people aren't the same as white people and shouldn't be treated the same either. Huck goes with his true feelings and doesn't tell on Jim when he thinks he should because he believed he was doing something very wrong by helping Jim out of slavery, when in actuality he is doing the morally right thing. Society fills kids with their beliefs and because kids know no different, they think it is right then. One thing Huck learned "Give a nigger an inch and he'll take an all," (pg.115) which was the part in the book when he thought he was doing the wrong thing. He also said he was going to go to hell and didn't care because he wanted so desperately to help Jim. In reality, we know that helping the blacks wasn't a sin, but an act of kindness and you wouldn't go to hell for it. So the major life lesson we get from this is that you can't always listen to people in society and the people you associate with, do what you want to do, and what you think is right. You don't always have to follow the crowd, which is like the writings in Henry David Thoreau in saying you can rebel and do your own thing.