In my opinion Huck is definitely a reliable narrator. Though Huck's age could be considered as something to make him seem like an unreliable narrator, it’s the exact reason why I find him to be the best narrator for this novel. Huck’s personality, viewpoint and youthful voice makes him so earnest and truthful with himself, and therefore with us, that we as readers are happy to take him at his word. Through our own experiences, we can understand the experience in the context of a thirteen year old, and because he is a child he can get away with things other narrators may not. This allows Twain to be candid and endearing at the same time. Huck is a realist, he may lie to other people, but he never lies to himself and when he knows something isn’t right he doesn't hesitate to state that. For instance, when he says “ Here she was a bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it. And she took snuff too. Of Course, that was all right, because she done it herself”, he knows that the Widow Douglas is a hypocrite because she will not allow him to smoke tobacco (Huck Finn, Page 132). Another reason that Huck is reliable and was the right choice for narrator is that when we read a book through the voice of a young boy, we are able to learn more about the individual just through their actions and words. However, if the author, in this case Mark Twain, narrated the book, we wouldn't understand much about the character or what they are thinking. Therefore, with Huck as the narrator we are able to know everything he is thinking, and because the world is a different place in the eyes of a young person, we are able to understand that though he is a young child he can see that everything society has taught him is not right. His own morals show him that Jim is a human being, that Huck actually cares about, and in the end sees him as a friend. Huck doesn't want to follow what everyone else does. He wants to be on his own because he wants to live by his own moral rules. Huck was the best choice. He makes the story more realistic and can get the reader to examine their own attitudes and beliefs by comparing themselves to Huck.