Throughout the great American novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, there is a great controversy about "natural goodness" and the definition society provides for us. Many feel that Huck helping Jim escape is the "right" thing to do. Yet, at this time, what he did was very wrong and unaccepted. Although society tells him he is wrong, Huck's natural goodness wins the battle against "conscience" every time.
             Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua stated "that Huckleberry Finn has a great transformation into self-esteem" (Chadwick-Joshua 62). "Twain's work was significant in that it brought the ideas of African Americans to a wide audience they could not hope to reach" (62). "As Huck could not, neither can we jump arbitrarily from his discovery of Jim as a regular, visible human being in the novel's first section to his truly profound assertion at the conclusion of the midsection when he decides to continue to protect Jim. 'All right, then, I'll go to hell' (Twain 272). How does Huck come to consciously yield up his soul for his changed belief? To grow with Huck, we must understand his affection and his nineteenth-century sense of loyalty and moral rightness and, more importantly, his unwavering, consistent, indomitable respect for Jim as a human being, a man, a mentor whose voice must ultimately supersede the voices of the widow, Miss Watson, Judge Thatcher, and the whole South. For a real transformation to take place, Huck's allegiance to Jim must develop to the degree that he feels compelled to act" (66). Throughout this novel, we can see that Huck treats Jim fairly. Huck treats him as another man, no one special but no one inferior. Huck was ahead of his time; he was a fair person when no one else was. His heart took control and went against all of his teachings. "Rightly or wrongly, we initially judge the narrative suspect. Opponents usually...