In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck and his society have a completely different set of norms and morals. Throughout the book this is exemplified in many choices that Huck has to make that go against his views and the views of society.In the beginning of the book Huck is living with a widow who is trying to make Huck “sivilized” (Twain 41) and Huck is describing how he hates being civilized because it is not what he is used to he is used to being in the woods with his dad and not having any rules and caring about what society thinks. So Huck’s sanity and happiness is being sacrificed for the good of society. This is being done so that Huck can be a productive member of society. But this all changes when Huck meets up with Tom Sawyer and they run off and make a gang. During this time Huck becomes an outlaw and destroys all of his civilized behavior. He also influences the children around their hideout by recruiting them to join their gang. This is an issue because it affects the world around Huck and his gang because it is changing the future generations.The matter of whom Huck belongs to goes to court and the court being unknowledgeable about this issue leads them to grant custody to Pap (Huck’s dad). This upsets both Judge Thatcher and the Widow because he is being put with an abusive over controlling father. Later, when Huck makes it look as though he has been killed, we see how society is more concerned over finding Huck’s dead body than rescuing his live one from Pap. This is a society that is more anxious about finding a dead body than it is in the safety of people. This situation prepares us for Huck’s need to escape from society. In the book we see how Huck struggles for freedom from two families. He …
…k father who has smallpox. The slave hunters pay him to not tell anyone of the sickness. This shows how screwed up society is because these people are more willing to endorse slavery than help a sick man.During his time with Jim Huck is going to write a letter to Miss Watson to return Jim to her but he ends up tearing it up. “‘All right, then, I’ll go to hell’- and he tore it up.” This is when he realizes that he is a monster in society but doesn’t care and goes with his new found morals and rips up the letter.
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Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884. 1-413. eBook.
