The Duke and the Dauphin, tarred and feathered.

The last time that we see the Duke and the Dauphin, they are being chased by members of a town, being tarred and feathered. Huck replies to the scene by saying that "human beings can be awful cruel to one another". He feels pity for the Duke and Dauphin, despite everything that they have done to him and to countless other innocent people. However, I think Huck is able to see something that the rest of us miss. I don't know about you, but I see justice in the final end of the Duke and Dauphin. I feel as if they deserve it; that they got what is coming to them. But Huck sees that no matter how much people do that is wrong, everyone deserves forgiveness and a second chance. I think that that is a very important take away from this section. There was a better way to handle the Duke and the Dauphin, and different measures could have been taken to punish them, or rehabilitate them. Huck realizes that no one deserves to be treated like that, and that regardless of what they've done, they're human beings. No human would want that to be done to them, so why do we do it to others?