Social Responsibility 11

I thought Chapter 28 was a good example of social responsibility in a pure, innocent form.  Mary Jane is crying and Huck feels like he should go talk to her about what's wrong, which is an example of him demonstrating his responsibility in and of itself.  He is not necessarily good with people but he tries with her.  He tells her, "Miss Mary Jane, you can't abear to see people in trouble, and I can't-most always.  Tell me about it." Mary Jane is, of course, upset at the fact that the duke and the dauphin broke up the slave family and she knows they will never see each other again.  Her innocence is outcrying at the despair of the situation, and this is the final straw that causes Huck to finally come clean and admit that the duke and the dauphin are frauds. It certainly took him long enough, but the point is that he told her in the first place which is something I honestly didn't expect him to do.  Even though he did in in a somewhat cowardly way by devising an entire secret plan to get it done, it's still a huge step.  I feel like a big thing that comes out of this that will help him to listen more to his conscience in the future is that Mary Jane thinks of him as an actual hero after he tells her the truth.  She tells him she will never forget him, will think of him often, and will pray for him, and for a boy without any family someone thinking of him so fondly is certainly a huge deal.