What life lessons does Huck learn in Huckleberry Finn?
There are many, which can be adequately revealed only by reading and understanding the book. Huck is a boy troubled by some of the things he sees in society, a lot of the hypocrital nature of pre-war Southern society. He wrestles with his conscience during the raft trip down the river with the escaped slave Jim, finally realizing that although he “done wrong” by not giving up Jim to the slave trackers, he knew it was the right thing to do. His description of the near-riot and near-lynching of Colonel Sherburn depicts the two views of southern society in conflict. Huck runs from it, Colonel Sherburn confronts it.
