Huckelberry Finn Morals

In the novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck shows the readers his moral values. As the readers come along with Huck on his extravagant adventures, they begin to learn more about Huck and the way in which he handles different experiences. The reader sees Huck mature over these experiences and watches Huck measure his moral values in a different way. In the beginning, the readers learn that Widow Douglas takes Huck as her son and wants to raise him to be 'sivilized.' Huck mentions the widow “tuck[ing] down her head and grumbl[ing] a little over the vituals” and also telling the widow he wants to go to the “bad place.” The reader realizes that the widow is teaching Huck to pray and trying to have him be more of a civilized child. When Huck mentions that he wants to go to that “bad place,” the Widow gets mad and says that she wants to go to that “good place.” However Huck does not understand what the widow is trying to tell him, all he knows is that she got mad at the fact he wants to go to that “bad place.” From there, Huck says, “ Well, I couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn’t try for it. But I never said so, because it would only make trouble, and wouldn’t do no good.” The readers can see that Huck does not fully understand the Widow and her ways, but knows that not telling her what he thinks is right in order for her not to get mad. During this time living with Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, he sees that they have black slaves, one of which is named JIm. Being somewhat sivilized and following society, he assumes that white people are on a higher social class than black people. Huck sees black people, like Jim, as slaves owned by white. While sneaking out of the house one night with Tom, the two boys decide to play a prank on Jim. As Jim falls asleep outside leaning on a tree, the two boys tied Jim to the tree and hung his hat over the branch. From this Jim says, “ the witches