y have fallen. This explains all the "majestying" that goes on until the royals' concern with other people's money, Jim's slave status, and a reward for turning Jim over to the authorities leads Huck to conclude that the king and the duke are frauds (Twain 369). The key point is that Huck learns to detect the serious implications of moral fraud, just as he understood the physical dangers associated with remaining under Pap's care.
By the time Huck gets involved with Tom Sawyer in the project of freeing Jim once and for all, he has developed something like a sense of moral complexity. He is initially morally confused by the fact that Tom "was actuly going to help steal that nigger out of slavery. . . . Here was a boy that was respectable, and well brung up. . . . It was outra
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