444). So, while these subtle insinuations and omissions seem to portray Huck as indifferent, altogether they continually serve to illustrate his overall innate goodness. So while the reader can not help but believe society has produced some influence on Huck ?we believe in ultimately?Huck?s integrity? (Galileo: Bercovitch) and ?hard?headed common sense? (Carter 288). Lastly, Huck displays his tangent from that typical society by refusing let money guide his actions. This ?theme which Huckleberry Finn shares with most of the world?s great novels is that of man?s obsession with the symbols of material wealth. The book opens with an account of the six thousand dollars Huck got from the robbers? hoard and ends on the same note. Throughout the intervening pages gold is shown to be not only the mainspring of most human action, but usually the only remedy mankind can offer to atone for the many hurts they are forever inflicting on one another. (Lane 442) During the course of the novel, Huck encounters very large sums of money. Never do we once receive the impression that he would take the wealth and keep it for his own selfish gain. Huck decides to ?sell all [his] property to [Judge Thatcher]? (Twain 28) so Pap could not waste the money on ?whisky?. In addition, when the Duke and King stole the three thousand dollars in gold from Peter Wilk?s nieces, Huck stole it back from them. The only thought, though, was returning the gold to the girls. Most would have taken the money and ran?in their time period as well as ours. All these contributions lead to the simple fact that ?in a crucial moral emergency a sound heart is a safer guide than an ill?trained conscience? (Baetzhold 352). ...
