http://www.crisismagazine.com/2013/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-by-mark-twain-two-views Here are two reviews of Huckleberry Finn, not some much the book but more attempts at describing Huck's character. The comments are equally important and as with the respondent Stella, the Huck defined in these two reviews is not the Huck of my own mind. I view Huck as neither king nor moralist. In fact, I don't see him as heroic at all. I see Huck as someone without ambition finding his own way along the middle path. He recognizes and even accepts the legal and moral structure of the society he exists in, but he has a natural talent for evading it's more virulent aspects. His acts are acts of his heart, not his mind nor his morals.