”Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom. Well, I can tell you it made me all over trembly and feverish, too, to hear him, because I begun to get it through my head that he was most free—and who was to blame for it? Why, me. I couldn't get that out of my conscience, no how nor no way. It got to troubling me so I couldn't rest; I couldn't stay still in one place. It hadn't ever come home to me before, what this thing was that I was doing. But now it did; and it stayed with me, and scorched me more and more. I tried to make out to myself that I warn't to blame, because I didn't run Jim off from his rightful owner; but it warn't no use, conscience up and says, every time, "But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could a paddled ashore and told somebody." That was so—I couldn't get around that noway. That was where it pinched. Conscience says to me, "What had poor Miss Watson done to you that you could see her nigger go off right under your eyes and never say one single word? What did that poor old woman do to you that you could treat her so mean? Why, she tried to learn you your book, she tried to learn you your manners, she tried to be good to you every way she knowed how. That'swhat she done."I got to feeling so mean and so miserable I most wished I was dead.”
In this passage from pg(#74) Huck seems to be struggling with his friends release and it seems as though he is having an internal conflict .Throughout the passage Huck doesn't seem to be very happy with his friend release. At the beginning he said he felt “trembly and feverish”, which meant he didn’t feel so great about his friends release. Huck seemed to be over thinking a lot, the use of word choice “conscience”, came up which means his problem was having to do,with society and he would be going against it because someone had rights to his friend, which was his guardian Miss Watson. Miss Watson had provided Huck with A home and that was another internal conflict he was having because he knew how much help she had given him, and he states at the end of the passage “she tried to be good to you every way she knowed how. That's what she done." Although Huck didn't like Miss Watson very much he feels and obligation to her because she did a favor for him, now he has to do something for her. Huck has to battle between his friends freedom and Miss Watson, though he seems to be indecisive, as to the end he states that he feels “mean and miserable” and “I most wished I was dead”. This suggests that he has an obligation to do right for society, but deep down he also know his friend is property, which he knows isn’t right.
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