Huck Finn
Struggle Between Heart and Conscience When Robert Frost writes of "two roads diverged in a wood, and I-/ I took the one less traveled by/And that has made all the difference" ("The Road Not Taken"), he demonstrates the realization of both writers and the hoi-polloi that following the accepted path of society not always directs an individual in the proper direction. While few people would disagree with the principle, most do not concede to the action. Since such moral conflicts continuously plague the lives of common people, writers commonly portray such simple problems in their novels. But just as not all moral decisions allow for an obvious solution, not all writers choose to portray such one-dimensional conflicts. Often a person's intuition conflicts with pervading conventions in solving an obscure problem, as demonstrated by the Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The main character of the novel, the youthful Huckleberry Finn, uses his intuition throughout the novel to guide him in the correct path. Employing various episodes involving not only the runaway slave Jim but also other characters, Twain efectively conveys to the reader a complex moral problem that the young Huck must face in the nineteenth
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Approximate Word count = 1451
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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