Moral Development of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain's novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is based on a young boy's coming of age in Missouri of the mid-1800s. The adventures Huck Finn muddles into while floating down the Mississippi River depict many serious issues that occur on the "dry land of civilization" better known as society. As these somber events following the Civil War are told through the young eyes of Huckleberry Finn, he unknowingly develops morally from both the conforming and non-comforming influences surrounding him on his journey to freedom. Huck's moral evolution begins before he ever sets foot on the raft down the Mississippi. His mother is deceased, while his father customarily "sleeps with the pigs" in a drunken state. Huck grows up following his own rules until he moves in with the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. Together, the ....

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