Helping Hand

At first, he wants to get on the wrecked ship to see if there is any loot from them to "borrow." He thinks that there are probably the captain's things, and if they get them, they will become richer than they have ever been before. Once Huck gets on the ship, he sees that two men are threatening the other man. Now, he has to motives for being on the ship, to help the man that is being threatened, and to get the valuable items on the ship, not to mention, he thinks the only way they can get away from the murderers is to steal their ship. He convinces Jim to help him take the ship, but then later feels bad about this decision, mainly by talking up the idea that there is someone that is going to get killed on the wrecked ship, if they didn't do anything about it. While at first he wanted to take the ship to escape, he then felt bad about it and backtracked to watch out for the people on the ship. This just shows that Huck, even though he never really comes out and says it straight on, likes to fight for the under dog. The example of the genie is another time where this side of him shows through. In that situation, he thinks that people shouldn't just do things for other people, which is helping the slaves, another underdog. In this situation, there is a man that is obviously getting bullied because of what he has, both his possessions and his knowledge, and the men are threatening to kill him. Huck doesn't want to see this happen, so even though he might say they should help to get the loot, he really wants to help to save the man in danger.