Huckleberry Finn Best Intentions

Best Intentions? Can peoples best intentions be good enough for you? Is right for people to turn in to chose your path for you? In the novel, The Adventures of huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the main character Huck goes done a large journey, using his experience to mature and grow as a person. Huck travels with the African American author slave Jim all over the Mississippi river in hope to get to a anti-slavery state, but they go through a lot of problems heading the wrong way and deeper into the southern states.Throughout the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, there are characters who throw the best intention to help Huck but it is not the best amour for him. The widow tries to sivilize Huck, the unused calculate tries to improve Paps incorrupt condition to fall apart him for Huck, and the Phelps family tells Huck to do the right thing and indemnification Jim to his sustainers. There are characters who lose the best intentions for Huck but they are not the be st thing for him. The widow wants to sivilize Huck, and she wants to teach him sliceners under a very religious view. Huck says, The widow lag a bell for super, and you had to come to time.When you got to the table you couldnt go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to collect her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warnt really anything the matter with them (p. 1-2). The widow makes Huck come on time to eat supper and he has to wait after she says grace for the nourishment they are about to eat. The widow tries to make Huck let go of bad habits, so he can fit into civilization. Huck says, Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. plainly she wouldnt. She said it was a mean practice and wasnt clean, and I must try to not do it any longer (p. 2).The widow tells Huck that he shouldnt smoke anymore because its a bad thing. The widow tries to sivilize Huck in a religious way and also by telling what is wrong and right. There a re characters in the novel who have good intentions to help Huck but it isnt the best thing for him. The spic-and-span judge in town tries to fix Paps moral condition so he could be a come apart father to Huck. Huck says, the new judge said he was going to make a man of him. So he took him to his own house, and dressed him up clean and nice, and had him to breakfast and dinner and supper with the family, and was on the button hoar pie to him, so to speak (p. 6). The new judge didnt know who Pap was at first and he heady to take him in, in order to make him a better man and to be ok with himself so he can be a better father to Huck. But that back fired on the judge, Pap just ended up back in the street and drinking once again. Huck says, they tucked the old man into a beautiful room, which was the spare room, and in the night sometime he got powerful thirsty and clumb out into the porch-roof and slid down a stanchion and a good old time and towards sidereal day he crawled out a gain, drunk as a fiddler (p. 7). Pap sneaked out of the house just to go get drunk and would sneak back in. The new judge wanted to change Paps moral ways and he wanted Pap to improve in order to be a better person and a better father, but it did not work out. There are characters who try to do the best things for Huck but they never really are what he needs. Aunt go keeps Jim outside from Huck. Aunt Sally says, the runaway nigger theyve got him back, safe and sound, and hes in that cabin again, on bread and water, and laughable down with chains, till he is claimed or sold (p. 217). Huck tries to steal Jim back from Aunt Sally but she captures him again and keeps him. Aunt Sally wants to trace Huck in order to sivilize him. Huck says, I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally shes going to remove me and sivilze me and I cant persist it. I been there before (p. 220). Huck doesnt want to be civilized, he went through a lot and experienced that civilization is just not good for him, so he cant stand it.Huck is kept away from Jim when Jim is captured by Aunt Sally which makes it difficult for Huck to be on his own and Huck doesnt want to get adopted by Aunt Sally. Throughout the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, there are characters who have the best intention to help Huck but it is not the best thing for him. The widow tries to sivilize Huck, the new judge tries to improve Paps moral condition to better him for Huck, and Aunt Sally keeps Jim away from Huck and she wants to adopt Huck. But none of those characters intentions helped or worked for Huck. It was up to Huck to chose his own path.