Huck Finn Facets Of Lies

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ired him most to death, and his back was all over saddle-boils,” in retelling and stretching this tale, “Jim was monstrous proud” and was even looked up to by the slaves in the surrounding areas (Twain 19). Jim’s tall-tale was only stretching the truth and never caused reason for harm anywhere. His lie was safe and told only for fun and personal reasons, similarly to Tom’s.
Mark Twain once said “Golf is a good walk wasted” but back to relevance, he also said, “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” This is true in Huck Finn’s interpretations of the truth and the distortions he makes out of ignorance and misunderstanding; Huck is however, “more powerful than his world, because he is more aware than any other person in it” (Eliot 350). It is Huck’s lack of education that allows him to be ‘untouched’ by society and this is key in allowing Twain to make his observations of civilizations’ idiosyncrasies. When Tom tells Huck his fairy tales, such as “Arabian Nights,” Huc...