Values and Theft: Tom's Moral Scale

After making plans to save Jim, and all of the tools, and goods they stole from Aunt Sally, they get away with it. It seems as if things were planned to work out. They fit perfectly together to lead Tom and Huck into success. This is not the first time this happens. When Huck steals the 6,000 dollars from the King and the Duke, he manages to blame some slaves, and get away with it, without much trouble or investigation by the royal frauds. the characters miss some obvious situations, giving the main characters way to make their plans succeed. "Ther's six CANDLES gone-that's what. The rats could a got the candles, and i reckon they did;.." (chp 37)

We can see the unclear moral values Tom expresses. After they steal all those things from Aunt Sally's basement, he has no problem with it. But when Huck stole a watermelon, he made him pay the slaves that were there a dime. He has some type of moral reasoning but does not apply it to what is really right, just to what he thinks is.