The book's main character and narrator. With in Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, Huck is the thirteen-year-old. Huck is conscientious, bright (albeit academically illiterate), and prepared to reach his own conclusions about critical issues, even if these findings go against society's conventions.
He is frequently left to fend for himself and is always somewhat of an outsider. Huck is still a youngster, though, and is influenced by others, especially by Tom, his creative buddy. Twain establishes right away in the book that Huck is a young man from the lowest strata of white society. Huck is distrustful of the world and the ideals it instills in him since he is cut off from the mass of civilization.
