Moral Dilemmas in Huck Finn

In The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, Huck faces a number of moral dilemmas which reveals much about the characters. A moral dilemma is a situation where there is no clear thing to do. It also says when you have a problem that doesn’t have a right or wrong answer. To me moral dilemmas are good and bad at the same time. Either way you go you can still be screwed. So you might as well go for it.
The dilemma in that story that stuck out most to me was when Huck lies about Jim’s whereabouts. This to me was really a dilemma because even if Huck did rat out on Jim or even if he didn’t rat out on him, he would still feel bad because either way he’s letting someone down. The relevance of this to Huck’s character is that he’s a good person but because I of the situation he was in he thought that he might as well tell the men he hasn’t seen Jim. If he had told them about Jim, he would still feel bad because he lost a friend. “He’s white ….Because its Pap in there and maybe you’d help me to tow the raft a shore where the light is. He’s sick—and so are Mam and Mary Ann.” (ch14, par.2, pg.68).
I favor in what Huck did because even though he knew it was wrong to lie to those two men, he still got something out of it for his troubles. If he had rated Jim out he would not have gotten the 40 dollars from those guys. After Huck thought about it he must’ve thought it wasn’t too bad to lie if he got some money. He could’ve told them that Jim was in the boat, and not Pap but being a good person took over him. So he did what he had to do in order to protect Jim even though he didn’t want to. “ Here—I’ll put a twenty dollar piece on this board, and you get it when it floats by…. Here’s a twenty to put on the board for me…” (ch14, par 1, pg.69).
My support for Huck is that he did do the right thing. So let’s say this. Huck tells them that Jim is in the boat. They think that he’s on of those five slaves that ran away. They end up killing Jim, and Huck would be punished for lying, and people would probably find out he’s not dead if someone recognizes him. So if he ended up going that way the situation will be worst that the little white lie Huck had told. I guess you can say that lie was nothing compared to what could’ve happened. “ They went off, and got aboard the raft, felling bad and low, because I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it warn’t no use for me to try and learn and do the right thing…” (ch14, par2, pg. 69)
All in all I think this moral dilemma really explains a definition. There really isn’t a right or wrong answer. It’s like an either way it goes your going to get it, but you never know you could get something out of it. I think that if your in a situation like this you should think out the possible outcome of the decision that you make and see which one is the best or the worst. Also see what you’ll get out of it.