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What Huck Is All Along

discover soon after the meeting, that the King and Duke are fakes. "It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these lairs warn't no kings nor dukes." These two fakes excel at tricking people, and taking their money. But we see much later that these two come to a very unfortunate end.In chapters 25-29, the king and the duke pose as the brothers to the very wealthy, and deceased Mr. Peter Wilks. Huck tags along, and his role, one that he does not act out well or enjoy, is of a servant boy to the king. Huck does not favor the plans of the king and duke to take the money which belongs to the the three girls, and suddenly Huck has a change of heart. Huck feels sorry for the three girls the king and duke are tricking, and he wants to do some good; so he decides to steal the money back from the king and duke to give back to the three girls. This is very different compared to what Huck does, which is nothing, when the king and duke trick the town Bricksville with their Royal Nonesuch.Then in chapter 28, when things are not going well for the king and duke, they lost the bag of money, Huck adds further to their bad luck. Huck slips and tells Mary Jane that the slaves, whom the king sold just the day before, would be returning in less than two weeks. But before Husk decides to tell Mary Jane everything, there is a passage on the top of page 239, where Huck wrestles with himself to tell the truth. In the passage Huck reasons with himself and arrives at two conclusions. Huck realizes that he would be taking many risks by telling the truth. But Huck also sees that in his situation, it is safer to tell the truth. "And yet here's a case where I'm blest if it don't look to me like the truth is better, and actuly safer, than a lie."The conclusion comes to mind immediately, that Huck has changed somehow since the beginning of the book because now he is telling the truth, and trying to do good. But that is not the case here, Huck has not...

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