Want this question answered?
Huck told Mary Jane Wilks the truth about the king and the duke and their plan to swindle her and her sisters, and the real brothers.
Huck asks Mary Jane to leave town because he knows that her uncles, the King and the Duke, are conmen who are trying to swindle her out of her inheritance. He wants to protect her from their deceitful schemes.
Burton was outraged when he found out the truth about the Royal Nonesuch scam. He joined the angry mob who went to confront the Duke and the King for their deceitful actions.
Huck tells the truth to Mary Jane in Chapter 28 of "Huckleberry Finn" because he feels so bad for her .
Huck told the king that he escaped by swimming across the river and hiding in the woods until he was able to make his way back.
The duke told Huck about their plan to impersonate the brothers of a deceased wealthy man in order to claim his inheritance. Huck is reluctant to participate in the scam but eventually goes along with it to avoid confrontation.
Huck said the man who was holding him kept saying he had a boy about as big as Huck that died last year, and the man let him go!!!-Travis Bradshaw-Dyersburg TN
Jim does not tell Huck who the dead man is because he is trying to protect Huck from the truth. Huck's reaction to finding out that the dead man is Pap might be too overwhelming for him, so Jim keeps this information from him to shield him from unnecessary pain and distress.
The character known as the "duke" says, "When you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything" in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain. This is a reflection on the simplicity and accountability that comes with honesty.
The king and the duke rub lampblack on Jim's face to disguise him as an Indian. They dress him in ragged clothes and tell others that he is a runaway apprentice who is sick with smallpox to avoid suspicion.
The phrase, "I tell you the truth," appears three times in the King James version:John 8:45 - And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.John 16:7 - Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.Galatians 4:16 - Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Huck is eager to tell Mary Jane that she will be reunited with her slaves because he see her crying. Huck even cries a little at seeing Mary Jane in such distress.