Huck: Chapters 23-36

     First of all, let's look at Huck's "talent" again.  His skill for lying is incredibly cunning.  He's so good at it that I myself could have fallen for his lies.  It naturally comes to him like humans breathing air.  It happens so often that I've accepted it just because it's a part of who he is.  As I'm reading, I'm like "Oh look...he lied...again.  Goodness people are really stupid, falling for his lies."  But he does it so well, who wouldn't?  The more he lies, the more I realize that he lies because of fear.  Fear of what?  Being caught.  Every time he lies, he tries to save himself and times has saved Jim in the process.
     But suddenly, Huck...feels bad for lying?  This happens when he comes across Miss Mary Jane and can no longer hold in the truth.  Why?  Huck says, "Well, I says to myself at last, I'm agoing to chance it; I'll up and tell the truth this time, though it does seem most like setting down on a kag of powder and touching it off just to see where you'll go to" (218).  Huck's conscience made him feel guilty of how he, the duke, and the king were lying to them.  Huck couldn't bare looking at the young ladies being deceived.  But this won't be the first time.
     His second time of revealing the truth was more of an attempt and was never executed.  He was going along when he says to himself, "...here's another place where I got to resk the truth" (239).  Huck wants to tell the truth!  But ends up being pushed into the situation to lie...again.  However, I have also noticed that when he lies, it usually turns out to benefit him so well.  He escaped the hands of danger several times including the time when he lied to the duke and the king about him and Jim running away.  Huck got away with it.  But his current lie--pretending to be Tom Sawyer--I'm curious to see how it will end up turning out.