Chapters 23-30

So again in these chapters I see that huck is ignoring the classic social responsibility of the times.  In chapter 23 the conmen finally get their shifty play all set up and ready to go. (woo, this should be fun).  The audience realizes that the play is not what it should have been and protest.  By the third night the conmen and Huck have run away with the towns people’s money.  Here , Huck is ignoring his social responsibility to be a (for lack of a better word) “clean” person.  Huck knows that these men are con artists and he decided that he is not going to tell the people in the town this. 

Also, Huck basically says that these men are expected to be con men.  That there status makes it expected and almost acceptable for them to be crooks.  This can be seen on page 179 in the conversation between Jim and Huck.  Once again, Jim seems to be the voice that is attempting to guide Huck down the righteous and kind path.  Jim understands what good social responsibility is, while Huck does not.  Then later, huck actually tells someone the truth and I was like WOAAA is Huck actually following social responsibility (of telling people the truth)?  I thought that was something good Huck was doing (four for you huck finn, you go huck finn).

When the con men have a fight later in the chapters, I was thinking that they were cons for too long.  They are even thinking about conning their partner.  And also, I was thinking that when a person is a con artist, criminal, gangster, and so on.  Do they have a responsibility to continue rejecting social responsibility?  It is a crazy concept but it makes some sense.