In the novel Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, Almost every character lies one way or another. Tom Sawyer lies to portray his imagination, Huck lies about his family, and The King and Duke use lies to profit financially.
             In the novel Huckleberry Finn Tom sawyer, a young boy with a vivid imagination, lies about the things he and his "gang" but only uses his imagination. Tom says, "We are highwaymen, we stop stage and carriages on the road, with masks, and kill people and take their watches and money" (10). Tom's lies don't hurt anyone but little Tommy Barnes, who has a tendency to be timid anyway, Huck says " Little Timmy Barnes was sleep now, and when they waked him up he was scared, and cried, and he said he wanted to go home to his ma, and didn't want to be a robber anymore. So they all made fun of him and called him a crybaby" (11). Tom's lies are very "white" and only have a negative result on one person.
             Tom's lies are imaginative but Huck's lies are deceptive. For example, Huck tells the Grangerfords, "Its me...George Jackson. Sir...I fell overboard off of the steamboat" (95). Then Huck tells the Grangerfords, "Pap and me and all the family was living on a little farm down in the bottom of Arkansas, and my sister Mary Ann ran off and got married and was never see again" (96). Huck Benefits by being able to stay with the Grangerfords and the family is not physically hurt but his lies but they feed and clothe Huck, which is a financial loss. Huck also tells another lie to a ferry captain. Before Huck finds three robbers plundering a shipwreck and Huck steals the thieves only raft and exit from the ship. The ship will inevitably sick, so Huck feels sorry for the ill fated robbers. Huck tells a neighboring captain that his family is on the shipwreck. He tells him "Pap, M
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