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Moral Changes In Huck Finn
Untouched by the rule of society Huck in,“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” encounters the exploration of race and society. Huck is a young “rapscallion” who is always willing and eager to question the facts of life. He goes on an adventure; along the way he gains knowledge about the world around him. With the knowledge Huck has obtained during his trip his perception about the world around him, and his morality has changed drastically from where it was at the beginning of the book to the end.

Huck untouched by society is very skeptical in what he believes, but is open to some new ideas. Ms. Watson and the widow try to get Huck to accept religion and get him to become more humanized. “ I went out in the woods and turned it over in my mind a long time, but I couldn’t see no advantage about it-except for the other people-so at last I
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While at their next town trying to feel out the current situation Huck and the two con artists head to a tavern, and the two cons get into a fight. Huck used them fighting as a chance to escape, but upon arriving to the raft Jim is gone because the con artists sold him. Huck currently ponders the thought of whether or not he should wright Ms. Watson telling where Jim is, or if he should just forget about that and try to rescue Jim. After praying Like the widow had taught him and thinking he decides “ ‘all right, then, I’ll go to hell’-and tore it up.” (Twain, 250). Huck previously in his life never really had a sense of morality, because he never really cared about anything and would always end up doing the immoral thing without ever realizing it. But now after being on this journey and bonding with Jim his morality has bettered itself by him taking the risk of rescuing Jim though society deems it as “unethical” Huck views it as doing the right thing for him as a person to

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