Moral dilemmas in Huck Finn
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck faces a number of moral dilemmas which reveal much about a character. A moral dilemma that stood out to me when I was reading the book was when Huck went to this one ladies house to see if she had heard about his disappearance. He went to her house, lied about his name to cover his identity, and he asked her questions concerning is whereabouts and what they thought happened. During the time of the questioning the women starts getting suspicious and asking questions herself.
In this chapter Huck had to make sure that everyone thought that he was dead. He had seen that a house that someone had just moved into and went to it knocked on the door and told the lady a false name. At the beginning she was believing it until she told him to throw a bar of lead that she had twisted up at the rat and the way he throw it was different than the way a girl would throw it. Then she had him sew, and the way that he sewed, she had never seen a girl sew that way. Huck knew that he was busted when she said “Come, now-what’s your real name?”(ch.16, pg. 45, paragraph 3). Huck couldn’t do anything but tell another lie, since she had already know that he was a boy, he had no choice but to tell her that his name was “George peters mum.”(ch.16, pg. 46, paragraph. 3)