Eventually, they begin to feel remorseful about their constant theft. Huck has had two conflicting moral codes in his head: “Pap always said it warn’t no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time, but the Widow said it warn’t anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it,” (Twain 72). Huck and Jim have to decide for themselves what is right and wrong when it comes to “borrowing.” Since Huck was raised with such different ideas about borrowing, his conscience is deformed. Huck and Jim chose to solve this moral dilemma by combining Pap’s and the Widow’s rules and deciding to steal only two or three items. Mark Twain himself described Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as “a book where a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision. And the conscience will suffer defeat!” Huck uses his sound heart and acts on his feelings, despite everything he has been taught by society, Pap, and the Widow. Throughout the novel, Huck follows his heart instead of his
Eventually, they begin to feel remorseful about their constant theft. Huck has had two conflicting moral codes in his head: “Pap always said it warn’t no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time, but the Widow said it warn’t anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it,” (Twain 72). Huck and Jim have to decide for themselves what is right and wrong when it comes to “borrowing.” Since Huck was raised with such different ideas about borrowing, his conscience is deformed. Huck and Jim chose to solve this moral dilemma by combining Pap’s and the Widow’s rules and deciding to steal only two or three items. Mark Twain himself described Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as “a book where a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision. And the conscience will suffer defeat!” Huck uses his sound heart and acts on his feelings, despite everything he has been taught by society, Pap, and the Widow. Throughout the novel, Huck follows his heart instead of his