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A 3 page research paper that examines lies and lying as a central theme in the American classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Samuel Clemens (writing under the name of Mark Twain). The writer argues that an examination of this novel shows how lies, ones told by Huck and ones perpetuated by society, propel the action of the novel and point toward the novel's principal theme, which concerns the way in which the antebellum South portrayed a runaway slave as "stealing" himself. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the thirteen-year-old protagonist, lies and cons throughout the novel, yet, as critic Lionel Trilling has pointed out, Twain, through the medium of Hucks lying tells truths (Smiley 62). An examination
of this novel shows how lies, ones told by Huck and ones perpetuated by society, propel the action of the novel and point toward the novels principal theme, which concerns
the way in which the antebellum South portrayed a runaway slave as "stealing" himself. A novel by its very definition is fiction. Huck is the narrator of his own
story, so, at the beginning of the novel, when he refers to where the American reading public first met him, i.e., in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by "Mr. Mark
Twain," Huck admits that Twain told the truth in that story, but he qualifies it by saying "mainly" (Clemens). After all, Tom Sawyer could not be a fully
truth narrative because Huck and Tom are fictitious characters. However, Huck goes on quickly to note that he "never seen anybody but lied one time or another," with the sole
exception of really good people such as "Aunt Polly or the widow, or maybe Mary" (Clemens). As this indicates, Huck is worldly-wise despite his youth. His father is the
town drunk and taught him to steal chickens whenever the opportunity availed itself. In other words, Twain quickly establishes that Huck has not had a conventional middle-class upbringing, with its
associative values. However, while Huck accepts that a certain amount of lying and stealing is necessary for his survival, over the course of the novel, he grows in his
moral development to appreciate that the difference between lies that hurt people and lies that help them. Hopefully, although the student researching this topic has indicated that there has been
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