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Throughout the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huckleberry encounters many different figures who influence his view of life and how he conducts himself in society. His journey with Jim helps align his moral compass and realize the type of man he wants to be. Even though by the end of the novel he doesn’t want to completely be a part of traditional society, he realizes that some parts of it were important to having a good moral identity. From his interactions with the Grangerfords to the duke and the dauphin to Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas, Huck learned the characteristics of what makes a good person is the willingness to do the right thing even when everyone else says its wrong.

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-Twain grew up in a slave state, when slavery was legal.
-Twain knew slaves in his childhood and respected them well
-Grew to strongly oppose slavery.
-Wrote Huck Finn after the civil war, it takes place before the civil war.

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Throughout the novel, Huck's position in society as an outcast helps him gain a unique perspective of society and to what degree he agrees with it.

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-Acted as a mother figure for Huck
-The older sister of the Widow Douglas
-Strict, old, and obnoxious
"Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry"; and "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry—set up straight"; and pretty soon she would say, "Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry—why don't you try to behave?" (Twain, 2).
-Even though she was a devout slave owner, she was the one who ultimately freed Jim
"Old Miss Watson died two months ago, and she was ashamed she ever was going to sell him down the river, and said so; and she set Jim free in her will" (Twain, 290).

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-represent what not to be
-possibility of Huck's future
-uncivilized
-radically anti-society
-scared straight

"I was sorry for them poor pitiful rascals, it seems like I couldn’t ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cruel to one another" (Twain, 231).

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- Huck learned a lot morally from Jim
- Jim made decisions not for his own benefit but to help Huck through certain situations
- Huck noticed these actions, and cared more about Jim and saw him as more than a slave.

- "Then the others softened up a little, too, and I was mighty thankful to that old doctor for doing Jim that good turn; and I was glad it was according to my judgement of him, too; because I thought he had a good heart in him and was a good man, the first time I saw him" ( Twain p.215).

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Huck's interactions with different characters showed him that not all parts of society are bad, and that a person that strays to far from society is not good either.

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- Huck thinks Tom is educated, so he is easily influenced
- He lacks moral value
- Huck thinks that Tom is everything that he is not
- Tom shows no remorse for his actions

“It don't make no difference how foolish it is, it's the RIGHT way—and it's the regular way. And there ain't no OTHER way, that ever I heard of, and I've read all the books that gives any information about these things.” (Twain, 244)