ds to his assessment of slavery and his determination to set Jim free. Huck believes he will go to hell for making this decision, but his humanity is stronger than his notion of social pressures or even of the sort of sin embodied in books. For Huck, doing what is right is a decision made in the heart and not by the law or the Bible or any such entity. Even when he is most afraid of the consequences, Huck is true to himself and his human feelings.
The education of Huck Finn that occurs in the course of the novel is not traditional education but is r
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