Throughout the book, we see Huck’s natural intelligence and commitment to think through a situation. Huck goes for the simple things that help him when planning things out. We see this after the gang ruined the Sunday school picnic because Tom told them that they would attack the A-rabs there, and when they don’t find the A-rabs, Tom tells them that the reason the A-rabs are not there is because of genies, but Huck has a mind of his own. “Then I judged that all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer’s lies. I reckoned he believed in the A-rabs and the elephants, but as for me I think different. It had all the marks of a Sunday-school.”

The second event is when Huck decides to escape his father. At first, he did not realize the dangers his father brought to his life (the abuse) his retaliation was somewhat reserved. “I made up my mind I would fix up some way to leave there. I had tried to get out of that cabin many a time, but I couldn’t find no way.” He decides to fake his own death. “I fetched the pig in, and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the axe, and laid him down on the ground to bleed”…‘Well, last I pulled out some of my hair, and blooded the axe good, and stuck it on the back side, and slung the axe in the corner.” Not only has Huck made his own decision to leave his father, but also he has accomplished a goal he set for himself without the help of anyone else.