Moral Maturation of Huck Finn Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel about an adolescent boy named Huckleberry Finn. In this early stage of his life, Huckleberry is taught many of life's lessons that will help him deal with events that may occur later on in his life: 1) Huck fakes his death in order to be freed by running away from his alcoholic father and his caretaker, Widow Douglas, and also to escape …
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…are right or wrong. Slowly, Huck begins to rethink some of the prejudices that he has been taught his whole life. He prefers the freedom of the wilderness to the boundaries of society. Also, Huck's acceptance of Jim is a total disobedience of society. Ironically, Huck believes he is committing a sin by going against society and protecting Jim. He does not realize that his own instincts are more morally correct than those of society. 2