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jibe to Laurence Sterne, Nobody, but he who has felt it, can conceive what a plaguing social occasion it is to have a mans mind torn asunder by two projects of adapted strength, but obstinately pulling in a contrary direction at the same time. In Mark Twains novel, The Adventures of huckabackleberry Finn, the character Huckleberry Finn, also known as Huck, is one who can conceive this plague. Huck Finns two projects of equal strength was the difficult decision whether to turn Jim, a black slave, all over to his secureful property owner or to continue help Jim manage to freedom. This inner conflict took place in Jims conscience of move to decide what the right thing to do was. These two conflicting forces were the buttocks of how the story was told. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is told from Hucks viewpoint, and it illuminated the quandary that Huck faces as he befriends Jim and helps him to freedom, as well as convincing himself talkimg himself into believing i ntent . A part of Huck thought helping Jim was wrong because helping a black man escape to freedom was against participations rules and went against everything that he had been taught and raised to believe. The other part of Huck saw Jim as a good person, a friend, and believed Jim should be free from slavery. It was a fight between Hucks conscience of not following societys conventional laws and following his heart in what seemed right. Throughout the novel, Huck questioned whether he was doing the right thing. Even though he felt he was doing the right thing, he kept thinking about how he was freeing against societys values and ideals. Huck also felt that he was betraying Miss Watson by taking Jim, her property, away from her. Miss Watson was continuously good to Huc... ... I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and hence says to myself All right, then, Ill go to helland tore it up (Twain 317). At this point in the novel, Huck realizes that he would rather go to blazing for doing what he believed to be right even if it is wrong in others eyes, including deitys. Although Huck knew it was wrong to help a runaway slave, he also knew it was what he had to do, it felt right to him. The inner turmoil that Huck experient within his conscience was a constant battle, but Huck do the decision to follow his heart. Huck learns, from his own life experiences of befriending Jim and his own object lesson conscience and intuition, that standing up for what seems right isnt always lite to do, but its the right thing to do. Huck made the virtuous decision to go against what he had been taught was right and do what he knew was right.