When Huck is contemplating about the letter which may determine Jim's fate, he eventually tears it up and thinks that he will 'go to hell'. Such a rash act followed by a wild assumption is one of the many examples that show Huck as a naïve boy. Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, however, is able to use this naïveté to convey many ideas, rather than using an omniscient narrator. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the effect of having a young, naïve, boy as the protagonist and narrator is that the reader views the moral development of Huck more clearly and realistically, as he changes from being an impressionable boy to someone who shows a perceptive understanding of society. …
