Huckleberry Finn Post #1.

Even though Huck is only 12 years old, he is wise enough to use his resources when they are needed. Huck was trapped in a wooden cabin with absolutely no way of getting out. All of the windows were too small and the door to getting out was locked by his father who also had the key. Huck, however, was able to think of a genius plan in order to escape. “There was an old horse blanket nailed against the logs at the far end of the cabin behind the table, to keep the wind from blowing through the chinks and putting the candle out. I got under the table and raised the blanket, and went to work to saw a section of the big bottom log out- big enough to let me through” (Twain 33). His ability to think of that for himself is clever. Most people at this point might have given up. Huck knew that if his father caught him trying to sneak away that he would be in world of hurt. He stayed calm and did not let fear slow him down which unfortunately might have prevented him from escaping. Huck to me is a very wise kid and probably forever will be wise seeming that later on in the chapters he fakes his own death. Huck is one creative kid and his schemes, I believe, are ways that prove it.

Huck is very wise for his age, but he can also be somewhat gullible at times. When he was with Tom Sawyer and his friends, Tom would try to trick the boys into thinking that the Arabs, Spaniards and elephants were there by magic. Tom also told the boys about genies and how they can grant wishes to whatever your heart desires. As silly as this all sounded at first, Huck had to make sure for himself. “I got an old tin lamp and an iron ring, and went out in the woods and rubbed and rubbed till I sweat like an Injun, calculating to build a palace and sell it; but it warn’t no use, none of the genies come. So then I judged that all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer’s lies” (Twain 23). Even though some things are hard to believe, we sometimes can never settle our minds down whether or not to believe the things we see or hear about are true. Huck had a smart thought that he could get money by building and selling a palace. In that situation, he was a great thinker. However, the real world in his mind was quite a long distance away getting farther as his curiosity grew. Even though some of us are afraid to admit it, there is always still a kid with an imaginative mind willing to try anything inside us all.