lying

lying

Huck never learns the value of truth during his adventure. At the beginning of the story, he pretends to be a girl to get food from the older woman, then towards the end he fakes being Tom Sawyer to get shelter, so he lies about identity quite often. Also, Huck informs Jim that he’s poor, when he has approximately six thousand dollars sitting in the bank, which is a lot of money at this point of time. The only time we believe lying is acceptable in the story is when Huck and Jim are floating down the river and they see a boat off into the distance with two white men and Huck lies to save Jim. When Huck is swimming towards land for directions, the men ask him if he has seen any loose slaves and looks over at Huck's raft suspiciously. Huck then lies and says that it is his dad and he is sick, so the men don’t go near Huck's raft because they believe he is sick with small pox. I believe the lesson in the story is that the more you lie the more you get yourself dug deeper in a hole, and if you get caught in your lies you’re in even bigger trouble than if you would have told the truth. Like when Huck dressed up as a girl to the old woman to get information on if men are out looking for Jim, he kept forgetting his false name, and got caught. It teaches that you should just tell the truth to avoid getting in trouble by getting caught in your lies. By Connor Thomas and Alexa Berk

This is good, I like the fact that you used a lot of details. You should tried to include a few actual quotes from the book. I think if you do that, this will be great. -Thomas W.

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