Huck Finn's Use of the Tall Tale In Mark Twain's timeless American classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the narrator often finds himself in undesirable situations. These situations, which are far-fetched even for the nineteenth-century, provide much humor to the novel and demonstrate Huck's cunning. Huck's adept use of the tall tale becomes a survival tool on this adventure. In the novel, Huck sees lies as more of a practical solution to problems than as a moral dilemma. He rationalizes that he has "never seen anybody but lied, one time or another" (1). Unlike the lawless adventurer of the frontier, Huck does not use his knack for selfish purposes. He, inst