aws, how do I know? It was so long ago.”(pg.105) This confusion on Huck's part shows the ironic reason the boy’s conscience possesses. He is the only person out of many intelligent and successful individuals that can see how insensible and passionless this common custom really is. It is too bad that this young man’s conscience hadn’t shined on more souls during this time, and it is even more a shame that American society had to endure such a long period of irrational killing and feuding. The last dilemma Huck goes through involving his conscience and society was partially due to Huck’s undying curiosity. After persuading Jim to accompany him onto the Sir Walter Scott, a crashed steamboat, they encounter a struggle occurring between two men, who had tied up another man. The two men were planning on leaving the other man to die, by leaving him on the shipwrecked boat. Jim and Huck decided to leave the boat at once, not enjoying the company of murderers. On their way to the raft the two discover the heartbreaking news that the raft was gone, and they would have to find other means of retreat. Rummaging through the steamboat, Jim and Huck find the escape boat and barely get away. As they are rowing off, Huck begins to think about the situation they left the men in. In contrast to the customs of his society, Huck believed that even murderers didn’t deserve to be in such a fix, stranded on a crashed steamboat. “I begun to think how dreadful it was, even for murderers, to be in such a fix.” Huck empathized for the men, imagining if he was a murderer, and knowing that he would not want to be killed on a stranded steamboat. So Huck decides to make up some wild yarn and tells it to a ferryman, who instantly sails to the wreck in hope of receiving a hefty reward. After warning the ferryman, Huck felt very comfortable with himself. He knew that few other people in that society would have don...
