A man I admire once told me, “The man who claimed he has never told a lie, just told his first.” For many people around the world, lying is a part of their everyday life. This could be something as insignificant as telling their significant other that they are fine with eating at a certain restaurant. (Even though they don’t like that restaurant at all.) Lying can also be much more serious and hurtful towards others. And as I will show this this essay, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has both types. One example of lying in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn I would like to address is in the beginning of the story. This was when they came upon the house that had fallen into the river during the storm. In this scene Jim went into the building first, and he saw Huck’s father dead in the wreckage. He covers the body and hides who it really is from Huck. Jim lies here, he knew that it was Huck’s dad, but he chose not to tell him for fear of his own self preservation. Although I believe that Jim struggles with telling this lie, because he does come clean about it later in the story. I think that this would be a classified as a grey area for weather …show more content…
In this part of the story, Huck dresses up like girl because he wants to go see his own funeral. He does that, but afterwards is running off when he’s confronted by an elderly woman who stops him. He then proceeds to spin quite the web of lies about who he is, and what he’s doing in town. But alas, he slips up the second time he is asked his name and the woman figures out that he is a boy. But instead of admitting defeat, Huck just tells more lies about why he’s a boy dressed as a girl and gives another fake name. I can see this as a fairly innocent lie, for he is just protecting himself and Jim from whatever this person's intentions may be. He